# In order to make the restroom into an enjoyable experience... (work related story) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 9, 2003, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-order-to-make-the-restroom-into-an-enjoyable-experience-work-related-story/180700 "2003-06-09T19:45:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-order-to-make-the-restroom-into-an-enjoyable-experience-work-related-story/180700/1 "2003-06-09T19:45:33Z")
No, it isn’t to cruise tricks. My work is so weird. Someone taped up a sign inside the restroom that made me really laugh. In order to make the restroom into an enjoyable experience 1. It should smell fresh. 2. Do not use it like a stable. Pee directly into the urinal. If you pee on the floor then you should go into a stall and sit on the commode. Doing so ensures that the restroom will not have that rank odor emitting from its pit of doom. Which leads to 1. Cleaning staff should use cleaning products not only on the toilets, urinals, and sinks, but also the floors. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![eeclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/49beb7/32.png) [@eeclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eeclem)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-order-to-make-the-restroom-into-an-enjoyable-experience-work-related-story/180700/2 "2003-06-09T20:10:07Z")
ha! that reminds me of a couple of weeks ago when someone kept putting up little reminders for others to wash their hands in my bathroom at work. One week it was statistics about handwashing. The next, proper handwashing technique. And more recently a little note explaining that if you didn’t wash your filthy little hands don’t touch the door handles, (“Hint hint–it has to do with fecal matter!”) GROSSSSSS!!! Who are these hand-washing nazis and what kind of disgusting heathens do they think use that bathroom? sheesh ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-order-to-make-the-restroom-into-an-enjoyable-experience-work-related-story/180700/3 "2003-06-09T20:30:22Z")
From what I’ve seen, plenty of people don’t wash their hands. I think the comment about fecal matter was more about bacteria than actual, erm, “matter”. ---
**Author:** ![RickQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@RickQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickQ)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-order-to-make-the-restroom-into-an-enjoyable-experience-work-related-story/180700/4 "2003-06-09T21:05:56Z")
**eeclem** , I saw a sign detailing the proper technique for washing hands, too. I was in the bathroom of a restaurant :eek: and it had a sign on the door which said something like “Wet Hands, apply soap, massage lather into hands, rinse under running water, dry using paper towels, turn tap off using paper towel”. It was a scary thought that people actually needed to be told how to wash their hands. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-order-to-make-the-restroom-into-an-enjoyable-experience-work-related-story/180700/5 "2003-06-09T21:19:22Z")
On the topic of hand-washing, whose idea was it to include in the Wal-Mart bathroom in my area, faucets that need to be HELD IN THE ON POSITION while you rinse your other hand? To top it off, the cold and hot water faucets are separate faucets on either side of the sink. You get to choose burn or freeze! And either way you have to hold the darn faucet in the on position! Worst faucets ever. I like the word faucet. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-order-to-make-the-restroom-into-an-enjoyable-experience-work-related-story/180700/6 "2003-06-09T22:53:41Z")
\<\< WE ARE ALL CUSTODIANS OF OUR OWN FACILITIES \>\> (sign posted prominently in the restrooms at work) Does anyone have any idea what this means? ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-order-to-make-the-restroom-into-an-enjoyable-experience-work-related-story/180700/7 "2003-06-09T23:13:28Z")
**eeclem** , how bizarre. I once worked at a place where many independent offices shared one bathroom. Mind, this bathroom was always very clean, but an anonymous woman started putting up little homemade posters telling us to be sure to flush the toilets when we were done, because “unflushed toilets caused e coli.” The next line instructed us to wash our hands with the special liquid disinfectant soap which she had provided on the counter (the bathroom was already well supplied with its own soap). This got my dander up. I posted up my own little poster, refuting her idea that “unflushed toilets caused e coli”, and telling her I’d use whatever kind of soap I damn well pleased. She countered with a nasty poster insulting me and mine, so my next childish trick was to put a rubber cockroach in her plastic disinfectant soap dispenser. Peurile, no? It was fun, though. Never did discover the identity of the self-elected health director. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-order-to-make-the-restroom-into-an-enjoyable-experience-work-related-story/180700/8 "2003-06-09T23:27:45Z")
I’d just like to be assured that there’s not pee on the seat. “If you sprinkle When you tinkle Be a sweetie Wipe the seatie!” ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-order-to-make-the-restroom-into-an-enjoyable-experience-work-related-story/180700/9 "2003-06-10T18:51:32Z")
So, today I went into the bathroom. The little sign was still there. However, their was now pee all over the floor. It seems it was there out of spite. I totally agree with the sign that the person left there because it seems I work with a ton of slobs who have never had an indoor facility before. ---
**Author:** ![Sidewinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@Sidewinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sidewinder)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-order-to-make-the-restroom-into-an-enjoyable-experience-work-related-story/180700/10 "2003-06-10T20:44:07Z")
We aim to please. You aim too, please. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-order-to-make-the-restroom-into-an-enjoyable-experience-work-related-story/180700/11 "2003-06-10T22:32:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lainaf \* > \*\*\<\< WE ARE ALL CUSTODIANS OF OUR OWN FACILITIES \>\> > > (sign posted prominently in the restrooms at work) > Does anyone have any idea what this means? \*\* Totally disregarding any innocent intentions the sign may have had I shall speculate that it’s a euphemism like the one on Seinfeld: “Master of one’s own domain…” (makes me wonder what exactly they do in that bathroom…) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-order-to-make-the-restroom-into-an-enjoyable-experience-work-related-story/180700/12 "2003-06-10T23:18:17Z")
There’s a little sign posted in the bathroom in my office that is absolutely hilarious. It reads: “Being a happy and healthy employee is as easy as 1-2-3!!” Then, with little pictures of each activity (don’t worry, the first picture is a bull’s eye): “1: AIM 2: FLUSH 3: WASH 4: SMILE!” ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-order-to-make-the-restroom-into-an-enjoyable-experience-work-related-story/180700/13 "2003-06-10T23:29:20Z")
We have two bathrooms at work. Neither of them are exclusiveto either gender. I use the one in the mechanics shop, simply because I am violently allergic to perfume. The bathroom in the office area has so many plug ins and cans of spry and candles in it that some days I literally fear for my life just walking past it much less actually entering. The mechanics bathroom may be greasy and rather dirty but at least from a breathing perspective its much safer for me! As far as an enjoyable experience… I go there out of necessity not to have fun! jeez… ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-order-to-make-the-restroom-into-an-enjoyable-experience-work-related-story/180700/14 "2003-06-10T23:30:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RickQ \* > **I was in the bathroom of a restaurant :eek: and it had a sign on the door which said something like “Wet Hands, apply soap, massage lather into hands, rinse under running water, dry using paper towels, turn tap off using paper towel”.** We have this sign, complete with pictures for each step, in the restrooms of the preschool where I work. One would hope that beyond preschool, these signs would not be needed. Unfortunately, judging from the numbers of people I see everyday walking out of public restrooms without washing their hands, that’s not the case. ::shudder:: Anyone know of any good/reliable/legitimate statistics of how many people wash their hands after using the restroom? (I guess they would be based on surveys and not observations?) ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-order-to-make-the-restroom-into-an-enjoyable-experience-work-related-story/180700/15 "2003-06-11T03:07:43Z")
My last workplace also had the prominently posted instructions on How To Wash Your Hands, by every sink. And as it was a food serving establishment, there were a lot of sinks. There was even one of these signs in the customer restroom, leading to a number of unfavorable comments about the brainpower of the staff. ---
**Author:** ![Capcha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Capcha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capcha)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-order-to-make-the-restroom-into-an-enjoyable-experience-work-related-story/180700/16 "2003-06-11T04:09:30Z")
i saw those too in a retaurant bathroom: Don’t forget to wash hands i also shudder to think that the hands that made my food don’t get washed when they’re supposd to. i like subway, because they put fresh new gloves on. Harvey’s use their own hands… ---
**Author:** ![Smashed\_Ice\_Cream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Smashed\_Ice\_Cream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smashed_Ice_Cream)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-order-to-make-the-restroom-into-an-enjoyable-experience-work-related-story/180700/17 "2003-06-11T05:40:35Z")
I’m the bathroom Nazi at work. I’m the only female out of 9, and we share a restroom that doubles as a photocopy and fax room. The 8 men I work with are just hideously messy humans (there are often ants on the floor at work eating cookie crumbs in the bathroom. I kid not.) I’m just cruising this thread for signage ideas. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Spike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spike)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-order-to-make-the-restroom-into-an-enjoyable-experience-work-related-story/180700/18 "2003-06-11T06:00:45Z")
One place I worked had a sign: “To whomever is leaving feces on the toilet seat! Please clean it up.” Printed landscape on a cheesy early nineties color printer. I thought it was a bit pathetic and I didn’t work there much longer. ---
**Author:** ![fizzygoodmakefeelnice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@fizzygoodmakefeelnice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzygoodmakefeelnice)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-order-to-make-the-restroom-into-an-enjoyable-experience-work-related-story/180700/19 "2003-06-11T10:52:28Z")
At my school we had these strange signs in all the girls’ loos saying “Now wipe your bum” in big letters, then in iddy biddy letters at the bottom it said “We are watching you”. Odd. ---
**Author:** ![HDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bb73d2/32.png) [@HDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HDS)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-order-to-make-the-restroom-into-an-enjoyable-experience-work-related-story/180700/20 "2003-06-11T11:34:50Z")
My favourite sign: “All Employees Must Use Toilet Paper. Thank you.” Bwaaaa! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-order-to-make-the-restroom-into-an-enjoyable-experience-work-related-story/180700.md?page=2)