Work Restroom Etiquette

Now that's the ideal bathroom stall door.

 

Or jail...just poop out in the open in the middle of a room...or so I’ve heard

 

I would be all for the old saloon bar doors on a bathroom stall. They work in both directions too.

 

No offense, but I don’t want anything in my bathroom that “works in both directions.”

That’s just me, but I’m standing by that policy.

 

It’d be nice if they at least had a standard distance required between door and toilet. I’ve been in some stalls that I’ve had to straddle the toilet to get the door open. It’s not pleasant.

 

I can share a sewer system horror story, though it happened at home, not a work place.

My [now ex] wife and I were at the time, renting a house. It had a cesspool system. Full sized underground basement, laundry facilities were in the basement.

One day my [ex] goes downstairs to do laundry, comes running back up telling me how the basement is flooded and stinks like hell. I went down stairs to check it out. Sure enough, about 3" of water standing on the floor, and it did stink. I called the landlord, she called a "roto rooter" service. They came over.

Turns out, the family who had rented the place right before we moved in, had a new baby. This house was built in the 1950's. If you know much about 1950's era plumbing, the sewer was all cast iron piping. Cast iron pipes are very rough, jagged surfaces at the very small scale. The 4" main line was plugged solid with baby wipes that had caught on the tiny jagged surface of the inside of the sewer line, and had built up enough over time to form a solid plug. That caused everything from the toilets upstairs, sinks, showers, etc. to dump out into the laundry sink in the basement.

Yeah, that was fun.

 

About 10 minutes ago went to one of our restroom here at work. I was shocked to see a woman's boot inside in the 1st stall. So, I quickly exited and thought maybe I went in to the wrong restroom but no I went it to the correct one-posted sign is accurately correct not a unisex restroom. So, this chick exited the stall and she was like shocked. She said "Did I go in the wrong restroom?" So, I told her "YES" she then replied "I'm sorry-I thought this was a unisex restroom" mind you during this whole thing she was like very serious no smirk smile or anything. I was like "What in the hell are you smoking"

 

I work in a machine shop... The horrors I see on a daily basis are the things of nightmares.

No flushers? Check
Remnants of attempts to blow out the porcelain? Check (what do these people eat?)
People who talk to themselves Full Metal Jacket Style in the stall? Check
Poop and Scooters (no wipe or wash)? Check

and my personal favorite (We hire a lot of Vietnamese and Southeast Asian folks who are used to the "squat method")

muddy / greasy / oily boot prints on the toilet seat? Check...

 

we had contractors who came in the building in the A.M. if the sit downs were full they would just back up and crap in the urinal.

 

Punishable by death if I were CEO.

 

You mean they stand up on the toilet seat, drop their pants and shit straight down?? I can only imagine they sometimes splatter the tank as well as deposit some into their pants?

 

The above is very true. Wife and I were living "off base " near Kadena AFB Okinawa in 1970 in a newly built apartment building built by the native Okinawa men. The new Japan made branded toilets actually had instructions on them showing how to use. One diagram in particular showed a stick figure squatting on the toilet seat with his feet on said seat-- it had a big red X through it depicting --not right.

 

Was she hot?

 

Hell to the naw. She looks like a ungly trans.

 

Yup.

 

I don’t go at work unless absolute emergency, a few things I never understood.

1. Why people from other floors in the building use my floors bathroom (same offenders) every day when they need to take a dump and not the one on their own floor?

2. Why don’t more people courtesy flush? Seriously if your dropping a monster load hit the flusher, I don’t need to smell that crap any more than I have to..

3. How does toilet paper end up on the floor? Is it that hard to get it all in the toilet? Come on Kobe

4. How many people forget to flush the toilet at home? Don’t forget at work either! Are your 5?

When I was young, I worked for Sears. At one point in my time there I was in charge of painting the bathroom stalls literally every morning, because morons went in there and drew stupid stuff all over the walls every day? Why is that a thing? Pathetic..

 

I dont understand why bidets never caught on here in the states.

 

Eeeeek

 

The people that stand on the toilet are used to this type of toilet which you do simply squat on. Saw them in Italy, where they often had both this and what we are used to. Sometimes called a Greece toilet. Supposed to be better once your used to it.