Around noon, I noticed that one of our soap dispensers (similar to this was broken. The little gray plastic piece you push in to get soap out was missing one of its hinges. So I took the cover off to get at the soap, which comes in plastic bags with a rubber tube at the bottom. If you’ve ever seen inside a 7-11 cheese/chili dispenser, it’s like those containers but much smaller. These things work on a suction principle–repeatedly push the rubber tube and out comes the product. Simple, right? Not for one of the common sense-impaired around here.
Next time I went in there was about four hours later. First thing I see after taking a leak is soap covering half the counter! Why is soap covering half the counter, thinks I. My eyes move up to the dispenser, with its soap container now lopsided and someone ripped a hole in the top right corner! What the fuck was he thinking? Was he thinking? Maybe it was one of the microbephobes who are afraid to touch the anything in there with their bare hand. 'Course, they’d have to touch the plastic bag with their bare hand in ordrer to rip a hole in it, right? Very weird, but probably not as weird as the interior decorator.
I hope we don’t have to go weeks with only one dispenser like the last time.
I’m still wondering why I’ve worked for two companies since I graduated college and both are apparently packed full of guys who feel the best way to get rid of unwanted mucous is to pick it and leave it on the wall. WTF?
Errr…the only problem here is given your title I’m thinking of you as a guy on the bathroom floor. Which doesn’t show a lot of common sense in general…unless your the only guy who stays out of the wet spots.
Sometimes girls don’t show to much common sense either. This year at uni I was sharing a bathroom with three other girls, and I swear one of them never flushed. Ever. (I have no idea which one, but there’s only three likely culprits.) (TMI Alert)
Said girl also thought the toilet was the best place to dump used tampons.
There are some things I don’t need to see first thing in the morning. Or right after lunch, for that matter.
I’m still trying to figure out who keeps stuffing toilet paper in the urinal.
Seriously, If you feel the need to wipe after you piss, then why not use the toilet that is designed to flush solids. Besides, I’ve seen the huge fucking wads you leave in there. If you’re dripping that much after you go, then you should see a doctor.
I listened to my husband bitch about the conditions of the bathroom at work for years. I finally picked up the phone and called the local health department. That took care of it. They got a janitor whose job it was to clean, refill, sweep, flush, and what have you. They had human turds on the goddamned floor fercrissakes. Then he’d walk in it, track it through the warehouse where they make food containers. No place to wash his hands, etc. FUCK THAT. Drop a dime. Your employer will wake up in a hurry.
Tampons are flushable. Some older plumbing systems may not handle them well, but unless it’s posted “do not flush anything but toilet paper” most women will assume it’s ok to flush them. Of course, “flush” is the operative word here. Leaving them floating in the bowl is ickier than icky.
Actually, we were told specifically not to flush them, although it wasn’t posted (Probably because it’s an older building–the other two toilets in the building both broke at one point during the year, and our shower flooded). Beyond that, I don’t use tampons, so I can’t say what’s normal. I do know that at least one other floor had a ‘mellow yellow’ rule–we didn’t, but I could have lived with it if I only found yellow.
At least it’s not that bad here. I’m in an office building, and have only seen turds on the bathroom floor once. And those were wrapped in toilet paper.
Ninth floor, not bathroom. We also get guys from tenth as well, and I go up there if the bathroom on this floor is unavailable, because tenth is part of the same branch.
Mexicans seem to have a nearly universal fear of flushing toilet paper, presumably due to sketchy plumbing in their homeland. I’ve heard of the used toilet paper in the wastebasket thing from many people who work with predominantly Mexican workforces.
However, this doesn’t explain overstuffed toilets that overflow. My husband’s company had that problem. I think they did it to piss off management.
It was fairly obvious. Maybe someone ahead of me unwrapped the “present”.
I once encountered what I thought was an ordinary unflushed toilet but turns out that what I thought was a turd was really some brown paper towels. Might’ve someone’s idea of a practical joke–trick some rube into flushing and hope it overflows!
