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

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& another thing
that bugs me about the toilet here
is that sometimes the toilet paper roll has wet finger marks all over it.
wet blotches that get absorbed way down into the roll. i am troubled by the fact that someone is reaching for the paper while their hand is soaked - but with what¿ i cannot use possibly pre-soiled toilet paper - that is just way too gross¡

I was wondering about public restroom etiquette the other day. I work in an office building. I went into the restroom the other day and was using the urinal. This other guy followed me in and went into the stall, but he was standing up and left the door open, so I'm assuming (hoping) he was urinating. But why did he go into the stall instead of using one of the other two urinals? Was he really that bashful? The thing that pissed me off (no pun intended) was that I don't think he even lifted the seat. So instead of pissing in one of two free urinals, he chose to piss all over the toilet seat? I wanted to yell at him but wussed out.

thanks, stence. i found that one already but felt a washroom specific thread was in order. maybe i should've used another term instead of "facilities".

Dyson, your punctuation marks are upside down.

maybe ther's something wrong with your moniter.

I pee under my desk.

Okay, the men's bathroom here has one toilet, one sink, one paper towel dispenser, and (directly underneath the paper towel dispenser) a waste basket. Some cockfarmer that works here on a daily basis pulls 3-7(!) paper towels from the dispenser, and, rather than put them in the waste basket (which, I may have mentioned already, is directly underneath the paper towel dispenser), SCATTERS THEM ALL OVER THE FUCKING FLOOR. This doesn't anger me so much as fear for the mental capabilities of whichever coworker is doing this.

this place has about 10 mens rooms all with 4 stalls and three urinals. on any given day between 12-2, you cannot take a shit in peace. there is nothing worse than sitting down in one of the three stalls that are all connected and smelling joe accountants lunch. its unbelievable, between the smell and the sounds that come from these toilets. thats why i always try to use the "condo" bathroom that is for guests only. its one huge shitter.

I pee under hstencil's desk.

just now, in the men's bathroom where I work...

oh and i won't even begin to tell you how many people I see take a steamer and then not wash their hands. remember, that prospectus you ordered from E@ton V@nce...well it was probably sent out with a smear of feces on it.

i see, this is the thread where we discuss/compare our workplace pissings.

um... sorry, not had any worklace piss worth talking about, really.

We had two stalls, three urinals. One of the urinals always was flooding onto the tiles, one of the stalls (they'd alternate) was always broken. Because we share our floor with an office which has clients in and out all the time, our bathrooms aren't secured. If you were really lucky early in the mornings you'd find someone passed out on the floors or washing in a sink. Usually surrounded by dozens of little cigarettes butts torn apart.

And someone, regularly stacks up toliet paper (we got those rolls which don't really break apart) in a neat pile about 3 or 4 inches high. And leaves it, perfectly clean on the floor next too the stall.

But why did he go into the stall instead of using one of the other two urinals?

Some people use toliet paper when peeing. Some people just don't want to touch anything in the room without paper towels.

After I finish defecating under hstencil's desk, I always make it my policy to thoroughly wash my hands.

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¿