A daily look at life on the job by TIME's Lisa Takeuchi Cullen

Office pests don't discriminate

You've heard that Fox News is infested with bedbugs; just last week,

A Fox News employee filed a lawsuit Thursday against the owner of the building she works in and the maintenance company who cleans it after she says she was bitten by bedbugs at work.

The employee is claiming post-traumatic stress syndrome (seriously). Now it turns out that a far loftier establishment uptown—the Metropolitan Opera—also has a critter problem: mice. Says the New York Post,

The posh Lincoln Center theater has racked up numerous violations with the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene within the past few months, with the latest pointing out that there may be more rodents in the Met than in the cast of "Otello."

There's no accounting for taste, I guess—even among vermin and bugs.

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