# Slip Slidin' Away Toilet **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 19, 2019, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slip-slidin-away-toilet/845078 "2019-12-19T12:47:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slip-slidin-away-toilet/845078/41 "2019-12-20T20:25:15Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Let me ask you this. What if it was your money? Lets say you called a handyman to fix your fridge, replace a sink and paint a bedroom and he told you it would take him 6 hours at $15/hour to do so. He does the work and comes to you to collect. He gets to your house at 10am and finishes up at 5pm. He tells you it ended up taking 7 hours. You ask him why he said he started at 10, but he was in his truck for the first hour. He tells you that he likes to talk to his mom every morning, but always waits until he arrives at a job so he can get paid while he’s doing it. > You’re okay with that, right? I mean, you’re okay with paying him the extra hour and bragging to you about how you’re about to hand him $15 to sit in your driveway and chat on the phone? > I wouldn’t be. If your employees are bragging to you about their bathroom habits, you might want to review your interviewing tactics for new hires. You are hiring exceedingly strange people with caca fixations. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slip-slidin-away-toilet/845078/42 "2019-12-20T20:46:24Z")
I’ve worked for employers who seems to believe that all employees wanted to take advantage of them. I and most employees give good work for the money they work for. Those employers are assholes. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slip-slidin-away-toilet/845078/43 "2019-12-20T20:52:59Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > If your employees are bragging to you about their bathroom habits, you might want to review your interviewing tactics for new hires. You are hiring exceedingly strange people with caca fixations. Nah, just petty and immature. Which **Joey P** knows, because he told us way upthread that these are high school kids. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slip-slidin-away-toilet/845078/44 "2019-12-20T22:17:01Z")
Hmmmm > [@](#): > > He added that the optimum angle is between 11 degrees, where staying seated for more than 15 minutes remains comfortable, and 13 degrees, where “five to seven” minutes is the maximum. > > Mr Gill pointed to a medical study, which discusses the risks of spending too much time on the toilet - including haemorrhoids. And there will be outliers like me, where due to the changes to my digestive system I may be stuck on the toilet for an hour … because there is no way in hell I am going to defecate, get redressed, back out to my desk to turn around and go back in to defecate again [if I eat wrong, the issue triggers gastric dumping combined with a set of annoying gut spasms pushing the chyme along in a series of spurts so there is a dump, a pause, and a dump with up to a couple hours of this annoying activity going on. If I simply stay in the john, I don’t risk crapping my pants in an effort to get my less than mobile self back to a functioning handicapped stall] I do forsee an ADA suit against any building that has a resident/employee that does have digestive issues that does not have the handicapped stalls equipped with old school regular toilets, and of the only stalls that are ‘normal’ then they will be full of nonhandicapped people who do not want the new toilets so the handicapped that do have the need for the stalls will not get to use them. \ ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slip-slidin-away-toilet/845078/45 "2019-12-21T00:14:14Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > No, he’s pissed that they’re _bragging_ about it. I probably would be too. It’s petty and immature. They’re teenagers; they’re idiots. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slip-slidin-away-toilet/845078/46 "2019-12-21T00:39:48Z")
Bathroom breaks are part of the regular workday. And this whole study the Brits are using is stupid. It’s like the assholes who always say, “75% of your drive to work is stoplights.” Or, “They only actually play for about 7 minutes in NFL. The rest is just standing around.” No! Both of these are parts of the games-- driving a car and playing football, respectively. When I was off medication, I needed to pee 7 times a shift. (!!) It’s fine now. But so what? I do great work. Now lemme pee! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slip-slidin-away-toilet/845078/47 "2019-12-21T15:21:47Z")
A toilet seat that slants forward is going to put people in the reverse of the best position for defecation (which is closer to a squat position, with the knees above the butt.) Therefore it’s going to take at least some people longer to get their bowels to work, and may cause them to actually spend more time on the toilet, even if it’s uncomfortable time. They’ll probably be in a worse mood when they come out, having been forced into the wrong position and forced to be uncomfortable. If people are goofing off at work, IME they’ll find some way to do it, whether in the restroom or out of it. The underlying problem isn’t that the toilet seats are too comfortable; the underlying problem is that people aren’t interested in getting their job done. Reasons for this may vary; but a sense that the employers don’t care about the employees is very often such a reason. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slip-slidin-away-toilet/845078/48 "2019-12-24T21:09:12Z")
This is where a universal basic income would be useful: to prevent employees from feeling that they must endure any evil indignity or depredation because the alternative is poverty. Any employer who wants to install these in his business should be required to replace all existing toilets in his office and his home. **Joey P** may want to reconsider proclaiming the idea that his employees, the people whose paychecks he says he signs, are literally…paid by the shit. I am beginning to believe him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/slip-slidin-away-toilet/845078.md?page=2)