What kind of pigs do I work with?

[jsc1953]

@CookingWithGas

Once I was using a urinal at work. A guy next to me finishes, grabs a toilet seat liner off the wall, uses it to wipe his hands, and then bunches it up and throws it in the urinal. This was in a federal government office building–not a public area.

So yeah, people are pigs. Well, at least enough of them to mess up the bathroom for the rest of us.

It’s amazing…people seem to think that urinals are receptacles of sulfuric acid, and will dissolve anything thrown in them.

I’ve formulated a hypothesis: some of my co-workers are standing/squatting over the toilet. They wreak havoc on the toilet seat, so they panic and get a paper towel to clean it up, then try to flush the evidence. So that covers 2 of the bullet points on our bathroom signs.

Still no explanation about why someone would take the seat covers out of the stall and throw them in the trash, though.

[FairyChatMom]

I think the bottom line is: People are idiots!

Or is that too mean of me?

[Ethilrist]

@jsc1953

Still no explanation about why someone would take the seat covers out of the stall and throw them in the trash, though.

Saves on water if you don’t flush.

[Silvorange]

I’ve been places where there were signs up telling people not to wipe boogers on the walls and not to spit on the floor.

[outlierrn]

You’re not eally in trouble until there’s a sign that says ‘don’t eat the big, white mint.’

[Lynn_Bodoni]

@TXRebel

Oh, I have to go with EmilyG. Women’s restrooms are disgusting! Do they live like that at home? I’m baffled by the behavior of otherwise nice, seemingly fastidious women.

Sometimes they act like that because they have to clean their bathrooms at home, but in a public potty, they can be as messy as they want. And sometimes it’s because women are usually the ones who take the little kids into the bathroom, though this is changing.

[April_R]

@Trom

My first job in high school was doing maintenance/janitorial work at a hockey arena. The men’s rooms would occasionally have some paper towels on the ground. The women’s rooms were a war zone. :eek:

Can that be because men don’t wash their hands after going pee? That would tend to cut down on paper towel waste! I mean generally speaking because I know that some guys do.

[EmilyG]

@Lynn_Bodoni

Sometimes they act like that because they have to clean their bathrooms at home, but in a public potty, they can be as messy as they want. And sometimes it’s because women are usually the ones who take the little kids into the bathroom, though this is changing.

Also because women have periods, and men don’t. I’m not going to go into further details.

(maybe this board needs a puking smiley.)

[missred]

@jsc1953

It’s amazing…people seem to think that urinals are receptacles of sulfuric acid, and will dissolve anything thrown in them.

I’ve formulated a hypothesis: some of my co-workers are standing/squatting over the toilet. They wreak havoc on the toilet seat, so they panic and get a paper towel to clean it up, then try to flush the evidence. So that covers 2 of the bullet points on our bathroom signs.

Still no explanation about why someone would take the seat covers out of the stall and throw them in the trash, though.

As to the bolded part: if you have quite a few immigrants, this could be because the plumbing in their home country doesn’t handle much beyond number one. A friend of mine from Cuba was always in the habit of tossing the TP in the trash can. It’s something I always checked after she had visited so as to avoid a smelly bathroom.

[missred]

@Silvorange

I’ve been places where there were signs up telling people not to wipe boogers on the walls and not to spit on the floor.

I played in a dive once that had a sign over the lavatory in the ladies’ room that said “Don’t puke in the sink.” The operative word here is once.

[Enright3]

@Hampshire

Seriously. I worked in retail for the first 17 years of my working life. Now I’m more of a professional office setting.
The bathroom habits, hands down, are far worse in the professional setting. I don’t know if it’s age of what (retail co-workers were 18-mid 30s, office co-workers are 30s-50s) but the dudes are disgusting. I don’t know how many times I’ve held my tongue when sitting in a stall next to some loud grunter not to say “WTF! Are you giving birth over there!?!”

I say lighten up on the loud grunter. I don’t even consider that a “working with a pig” moment. What’s really the big deal? It is a bathroom, and it’s not piggish behavior. To me piggish behavior is when they don’t bother doing anything with the ass gaskets, leaving them on the toilet. Or when they don’t flush. Or when they don’t lift the lid prior to pissing (guys obviously). Actually it bothers me to see piss on the toilet ring whether the ring is lifted or not. It seriously takes less than one second to swipe the ring off after you piss; if you happen to dribble. An a new phenomenon that I hate is finding discarded paper towels by the exit. In other words, some selfish prick did the wash-his-hands thing and once he grabbed a paper towel everything else was too dirty to touch again so he opened the door with the paper towel and let it fall to the floor once the door was opened.

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@Silvorange

I’ve been places where there were signs up telling people not to wipe boogers on the walls and not to spit on the floor.

I’ve been to several pho restaurants that had veritable booger farms on the walls by the urinals.

Is this a thing over there? I can’t say I’ve seen boogers on the walls of any other restaurant, except vietnamese ones.

[Shoeless]

@Dr.Drake

The leftovers-down-the-sink crowd probably grew up with an in-sink garbage disposal, and then assumed that they come equipped in every sink in the universe. It’s surprising how little people THINK about their surroundings.

It must be a combination of that, and illiteracy. Because the sinks at work do not have disposals, and there are signs in huge letters posted over the sinks reminding people that there are no disposals, but they just dump their food in the sinks anyway.

[stui_magpie]

I work in a white collar environment with predominantly middle aged female staff. About 40 women, 2 men.

None of them fresh of any boat, no cultural excuses for dodgy behaviour.

There are 2 unisex bathrooms, each with a toilet and handbasin. No urinals, no “Ass gaskets”

After one of the toilets getting blocked several times and having to get a plumber in to unblock it, we had to put a sign up saying “Do not put paper towel in the toilet”

Some numbnut must have been doing that and it was blocking.:smack:

[Chimera]

I posted a sign in the unisex restroom in our old offices. Low on the sanitary disposal box directly across from the toilet.

Leave No Skidmarks Please
I’d say it cut it down by about 50%.

I remember back when I worked for Fair, Isaac (where your FICO score comes from) about 15 years ago. We had the CEO and a big client in our building one day. I walked in the men’s room at 8am(ish) to find shit wiped all over the walls and one of the stalls.

And apparently it wasn’t my job to try to contact someone to clean it up before the client walked in there. :rolleyes:

[carnut]

I’ve finally got a workplace where the women aren’t pigs. I suspect this is because it is in a healthcare setting. And because they are rarely toting children into the workplace. But even here I have found some women who don’t think they need to wash their hands. At least they are the finance folk and don’t work with the medical staff.

I have worked with FOB people who needed to learn not to squat on the seat, to actually flush the toilet, and to wash their hands. Once they learned, they were good about it.

[Dr.Woo]

I work in a large, global company in a nice building. Everyone in this building is grown up, educated (mostly in computer science and engineering), and managed to get through our very rigorous employment screening process.

And yet signs recently appeared in each stall of the women’s room reminding us to please flush. This perplexes the hell out of me because the toilets are equipped with automatic flush mechanisms! They even flush a little for #1 and more for #2 (based on time spent in the stall). I can’t NOT flush the thing - the sensors are really good.

I can’t even imagine how a person can use one of those toilets and keep it from flushing, nor why they would want to. But the idea that someone I work with, and maybe even know well, could be the culprit makes me really want to work from home every day.