I work on an awful corporate building.
I hate it.
I dread going in, everyday.
The building embodies many of the things I stand against: frivolity, useless work, suits, bureaucracy, bluff, yuppies, consumerism, slave mentality, arbitary authority, corporations, clocking-in and -out, families broken by senseless long workdays.

At least I have a window, I guess. I have a view of rooftops and traffic on the highway. But if the day is clear I can even see the volcanoes, though. I think the last time I saw the volcanoes was back in May.

I guess I hate the building because I fear it. Being in the building makes me nervous. I hate to be watched all the time by the security guards and surveillance cameras.
Everyday I meet at least:
3 security guards at the entrance of the parking lot
2 security guards at the parking lot level where I have my assigned parking space
1 security guard at the lobby building, that checks my ID
1 security guard at the reception of the 5th floor who opens the door for me (even though my ID is a keycard, but I guess the guy gets bored as hell...)
2 security cameras in the parking lot
1 security camera in the elevator area in every floor
3 security cameras in the hallway getting to my office
The guy in the lobby has two monitors with at least 9 panels of surveillance camera real time feed on each. The guy in my floor has one monitor with at least 9 panels of surveillance cameras covering the 5th and 6th floor and the stairways between them.

The building has 8 floors and three elevators.

I am not sure if there are cameras inside the elevators.

I made a sign that read:
PLEASE DO NOT STAND AGAINST THE MIRROR BECAUSE THAT OBSTRUCTS THE CAMERAS. THANK YOU, THE MGMT
and the same thing is Spanish:
FAVOR DE NO RECARGARSE EN EL ESPEJO PORQUE SE OBSTRUYEN LAS CAMARAS. GRACIAS, LA ADMON
and posted it in one of the elevators at 7:30 am.

I chose the elevator located farther away from the table where the security guards are located on every floor. It wasn´t easy to get an empty elevator even at 7:30.

I am sure that the elevator carried up at least 200 people between 7:30 and 9:00 am. It gets completely packed at rush hour, so there was probably people obstructing the sign many times, but I am also sure many people read it. I rode up and down 25 minutes after posting it and saw at least 8 people glance at it and/or read it. Nobody batted an eye. Maybe a sigh and some eye rolling. I was carrying my camera but couldn´t document it, though. I guess I am a wuss. Corporate-induced fear is stupid but strong.

But I know of at least one person who saw the sign and got annoyed by it. I was sitting down at the reception area at 8:55 ready to document the inside of the elevator when the door opened, to show either that the sign was still there or a least how packed the elevator gets at 9 am.
I just couldn´t.
From the elevator exited my boss, who´s the general director of the whole 5th and 6th floors, accompanied by secretary #3. Secretary #3 had my sign, still with pieces of tape on top of the documents she was holding. I recognized my boss expression as the one he gets when he is raging mad and has to act polite towards his underlings.
I said "good morning" to both and followed them to the 9:00 am meeting.