this is the thread where we discuss/compare our workplace facilities.

yeah but who let the ants in here?

I've noticed you've taken to wearing wellies to work, hstencil.

Oh yeah, another annoying thing: there used to usually be a copy of the Red Eye (the shitty Chicago Sun-Times tabloid) in the stalls that you could flip through to pass the time. But there was someone who would always take the entire paper apart and then (seemingly) kick it all over the bathroom so there was crumpled newspaper everywhere. I really can't understand the backwards thought process that lead to this actions. So then of course they decided that that was too much work for the clean-up staff and asked everyone to take their newspapers with them or throw them away. The security guard yelled at me for leaving a nice, neat folded-up newspaper hanging on the stall for the next person.

If my co-workers would just stop talking to me while I'm defecating, I'd be cool.

Nick, is their motto 'Take a Red Eye when your Brown Eye dilates'?

Booooooooooooooooooo!

How very timely. The men's toilet on my floor is shared between a few small companies (we are about 10 people). It has 2 stalls and 1 urinal. It was always in a poor state, including the shit-streaks in the bowl. This prompted one concerned person to put up a sign that read "These facilities are not well-designed. Please be considerate to others and use the toilet brush if necessary". This didn't help at all. The cover for the shit-tickets (bog roll, toilet paper, whatever) was always broken off in one of the stalls, and the paper itself was satisfactory at best. The 2 sinks are OK, but the 1 soap machine was always either empty, or broken - you had to rip the top off and dip your hands in. Ewwww....

A few weeks ago, the urinal starting filling up VERY close to the top when it did its regular auto-flush. If you were pissing at the same time, this made things worse. It was almost amusing if you got this timing right - wondering if this would be the moment when it all went over the top. Eventually of course, it started overflowing severely - with or without the live pissing. Then the toilets started overflowing. This leaked to the floors below (it's a very old London building). There was quite the, um.. stink about it around here, and after a long period of pestering the lazy building management company, we finally got them to agree to re-do the mens toilet.

They started work about 6 weeks ago and STILL AREN'T FINISHED. It kinda looks like a bathroom now and although it is much nicer looking overall, it isn't exactly posh. In the meantime we've been using the men's on the floor below us which is even worse than ours was. Surely they will be jealous of our swanky new room when it's done (we joked yesterday about having a ribbon-cutting ceremony when the damn thing finally gets finished). The real problem, though, is that we were told the plumbing in this building is so obsolete, all the shiny-new fixtures won't really help the overflow problem in the long run. Hooray.

Thank you for your time.

Ahem, it would appear that amateur!st has absolutely excellent pissing-around-all-day facilities at the workplace

-- I fully intend to do nothing at work all day.

Nick, my apologies. That was a really shitty joke.

that one stinks too.

okay so the bathrooms here have just flooded.

will everyone in your office start defecating under your desk now or are you gonna make them use their own¿