Where IS the stockroom? (survey, poll, please read before posting a map)

OK so I have been keeping a list (of course I have) of every place that calls itself the stockroom and I think it is getting out of hand, in a good way!!

• Always On: behind the showroom's staff door, orange shelving, the returns desk, a cage at the back (10/10)
• Backrooms: the level after the showroom, racking and strip lights (9/10, a bit long)
• Benchwork: the first floor of the workshop, with the inbox at the top (8/10, too many staplers) (I think)
• Skim: its own one, where your scrapings buy shelves (7/10, never been)

That is four, and I have only counted the ones I have stood in. Are they the same room, and I keep coming in by different doors? I put up a poll. Please vote before you post a map, because AisleWarden has asked nicely about the maps.

obs. 1: every stockroom so far has a cage at the back; n = 4, conf. 4.
obs. 2: no two stockrooms so far share a floor plan; n = 4, conf. 4.
obs. 3: all four share a name; n = 4.

the survey takes no position on whether they are one room. the survey notes that a room which is four floor plans is either four rooms or a very poor room.

IMPORTANT: speaking as somebody who has walked out of the showroom the long way, pls do not treat the Backrooms stockroom as the same one you get to in Always On. IMO they are not.

In Always On you go through one staff door and you are there. In Backrooms you go through the whole showroom first, no end to it, and THEN the racking. Same name on the sign, different trip. If they were one room I would have bumped into Mrs Ledger by now, and I have been to level 9.

i went and looked at the staff door again, the one off the showroom floor, the one that actually opens, which is the only one of its kind on my list of twenty-three, and i stood in front of it for a long while, and i think the showroom at least is one place, because every way in arrives at the same pale floor and the same sofas, however long the walk,

the stockrooms are another matter; i cannot tell you how many, only that the door i knocked on was answered by shelving, and the door i knocked on in my sleep was answered by different shelving.

I can speak only for the one with the returns desk in it; I looked for that desk for eleven years, so I have walked more of that stockroom than anyone should, and I have never once come out somewhere else.

If the others are the same room, then the returns desk is in all of them, and I would have found it sooner; I did not find it sooner. I conclude there is more than one, and that only one of them was hiding my desk.

Mrs L.

AisleWarden wrote:

one showroom; several stockrooms that share a name.

That is SO much better than one, I think!! It means my list is not wrong, it is a list of different rooms. I am giving every one of them its own rating out of ten from now on, and Always On's stays at 10 because of the cage (sorry CageSurvey, I know the survey does not do ratings).