Slip Slidin' Away Toilet

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.

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.

Nah, just petty and immature. Which Joey P knows, because he told us way upthread that these are high school kids.

Hmmmm

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. <one building I worked in you had to go around 2 corners to get to the one handicapped bathroom that was neither mens nor womens room, and it was generally occupied by everybody who wanted a private bathroom. SO I generally just went to the normal womens room and figured a way to haul my ass off the seat without grab bars.>

They’re teenagers; they’re idiots.

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! :slight_smile:

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.

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.