Zsophia, I agree with ya on that one. The best answer is to have the flushable paper seat covers, how hard is that? Or better still, a flushable wipe dispenser, where people can wipe the seat before use. I can see, though , that many folks wouldn’t want to take that extra effort, and it would make for a wet seat. But, the alcohol hand sanitizer evaporates quickly, so maybe something along that line.
On a previous SD thread like this, I was really grossed out when one poster said she just flushed with her foot to avoid germs. It had never occurred to me that someone would do that; thanks a lot for spreading all the bathroom crap on the floor onto the handle for me to touch.
freekalette I do hear ya on the foot washing thang, and looked it up, seems there are others trying to deal with that problem. From the above link:
More in the link, including resistance, especially with the M-word, but seems like the best solution.
In edit: could the footwashing be adapted to using a hand/foot sanitizing wipe or gel? Some discussion might have that as a good solution.
Actually, a sensible management response would be to install a footwashing station. A good plumber should be able to do this in an afternoon, for a pretty reasonable cost. That would make both you and the foot-washing people happy.
It’s especially annoying that management can say that this has been a complaint for ‘several years’, but they don’t seem to have enough initiative or enough brains to do something about it. Like maybe a manager is supposed to manage problems?
This may piss people off, but I’m saying it anyway. A company isn’t obliged to allow the practice of a religion in their building. They can tell them to take a break at the right time, wash up off the premises, and do their religious rites off premises.
AMEN! Upon reading that story, I thought, “Typical management! So careless that they have known it for years, and even so careless as to proudly declare that they’ve gone to great lengths to do nothing about it for years.”
I’ve never heard that before, but I love it and will quote it frequently.
It’s thin, harsh, and crinkly. I like to conjure up my own backstory for unexplained phenomena like this. This one goes as follows: There was once a competition between toilet paper manufacturers to create the thinnest, cheapest toilet paper. When the concept came up at a committee meeting, someone said, “You know that solution we have for easier-to-fold-newsprint? Send in a sample of that shit on a roll!” The victory speech included the phrase, “You fuckers thought you were good with 2-ply, then they found a way to make 1-ply. Well, I present to you…half-ply! Take that, bitches!” The only way it could be thinner would be if it wasn’t there.
If I am ever a business owner, I like to think that I would take enormous pride in my bathroom cleanliness. We will be “that place with the immaculate bathroom.” I would keep tons of spare 2-ply toilet paper in a stock room*, plenty of soap on hand, cleaned daily with lemon-fresh cleaner, maybe even some plug-in air fresheners, wide stalls–each with the handicap-stall railing, fans hooked up to the light switch in order to provide ventilation and “cover noise,” maybe even some muzak pumped in for relaxation purposes, everything will be gleaming white to show off how clean it is, and (after reading this thread) hooks on the doors that snap closed as needed.
*I just checked the toilet paper stock in my apartment bathroom…36 rolls! And I almost bought 4 more yesterday. When the inevitable zombie apocalypse happens, those lucky enough to hole-up in my survivor cell will have the cleanest rectums in five states.
My boyfriend and almost literally killed ourselves with carbon monoxide poisoning trying to make the bathroom in his store as clean as humanly possible, given what we started out with. Every time I’m there I go in and check it and make sure there’s plenty of toilet paper. If they ever start turning a profit I’m going to install a shelf with tampons and safety pins and bobby pins on it.
Being old enough to prepare properly for evacuation, I included two rolls of toilet paper. I may be stuck stranded somewhere trying to evacuate, but at least I can wipe.
I don’t know if this will be of any help, but the place I recently started working in has auto paper towel dispensers. On one machine in particular, if I grab the paper and gently pull it towards me, it causes the cutter blade to trip a reset switch, after which I can activate the motion sensor again.
Of course, the dispenser is set to roll out about sixteen inches of towel in the first place, so I don’t need to use it that often.
Oh, I posted about it. Gas-powered pressure washer. I know, I know! Look, it seemed like we had plenty of ventilation. And the thing about it is, you don’t know how bad off you are because one of the symptoms is confusion. Looking back, I definately should have gone to the emergency room (I was the worst off by far) but because we were all so befuddled it didn’t occur to anybody.
Leaf blower? Man, that bathroom was gross, but it wasn’t leaf blower gross.
Well, it’s certainly worth telling people about because, look, we’re educated, smart people, and we did it. You might get the same bright idea one day. I’m sure all those people who do die that way “knew better”.
Don’t take it in a bad way. I was just emphasizing it was close to fatal for you and a serious matter. I thought you might even link the thread for people.
Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, pisses me off more than nasty motherfuckers who think that urinals don’t need to be flushed. It’s fucking barbaric. I’d rather find a phat log of poop in a stall instead of seeing an unflushed urinal. At least the guy who left the unflushed log was trying to show off his creation but the filthfucks that don’t flush the pissers disgust me the most.
Feet on my tv screen don’t gross me out. Wait, scratch that! What I meant was, seeing images of feet while watching the tv screen don’t gross me out. Even if they are doing gross things. You’ve sparked my curiosity, and now I’m dying to know - what’s the deal with Freaks?
I’m not aware of any laws to this effect. If there were such a law, how do you explain the existence of businesses that have a single unisex restroom and no men’s or women’s rooms?
Well, your own state, Maryland adopts its toilet availability requirements from the 2000 National Standard Plumbing Code and from the 2001 Supplement. It’s now in the process of upgrading to the 2003 version.
The current rules are:
For more see Maryland Code Ann. Health-General § 24-211.
Or check with the American Restroom Association (www.americanrestroom.org/), which actually has it’s headquarters in your state.