How would you rank your office restroom facilities, in particular the overall privacy of the sh!tters, smells, noise, etc?? In general, what is your overall feeling if you have to use the facilites at work? We have a decent hallway type setup. Door - 2 sinks - 2 urinals - 3 stalls (1 handicap). Almost everyone uses the handicap ride if there is no one else in there. UNFORTUNATELY alot of guys dont adhere to the 1 stall buffer rule. There are alot of older dudes in there 50's in my office. I guess they either dont care, or just want to be rude. Either way I try to get the hell out of there as soon as possible.
My restroom at work does not have a bath/shower, my personal things, or the space of my bathrooms at home but it stays pretty clean and easy to use.
Ours is a one sinker, containing two urinals and two stalls. Very clean, no tail talkers (one's who sit one stall over and talk while their spinach drips), and thanks to Cintas air dispensers, it smells like lemons all the time. And there's ALWAYS a sports page. That was a deal breaker when I accepted the job.
Yeah we used to have the sports page there, but the dude that would walk it in every morning no longer works here....
Mine are fine. What really pulls my chain are those damn bathroom lurkers. You know, the ones that come in there and spend 10 minutes grooming themselves or spark up conversations with others. Very nerve racking and hurts the concentration.
Why is it that people feel the need to grunt and groan in the bathroom at work? Does this happen to anyone else? You go in, use the urinal, and someone in the stall is huffing and puffing, and then the ball drops. Am I the only one that can poo in silence?
I'm lucky. I'm the only one who has an office on this floor, this wing. The cleaning staff and the students are in and out, but basically I'm the main user of the bathroom. Three stalls, three sinks, and usually have it to myself. Which is good when you need privacy. The problem with having your "own" bathroom is, if there's any kind of mess or evidence left over, people might have an idea who it was. Of course, you try to avoid that. And... does anyone else feel awkward taking a... well, a dump when there's someone else in the bathroom? Especially if it's a small bathroom? Way back when I worked at Baylor College of Medicine, if someone was in a stall and was going to be there a while, and if you had the same intention, you went down the hall to the next one. It was an unwritten rule among the ladies. No such luck at UT, though, even with small bathrooms. I also hate when people make noise or violate the "leave some space" rule. People have no taste sometimes.
Working as a consultant, you frequently switch clients after projects are finished. Due to this, I consider myself an expert on office restrooms, because I have seen so many. I would say that my sample size of over 50 different office environs makes me supremely qualified to comment on this topic. You always want to look for the most underused stall to take your poop. The simple minded person assumes that the handicap stall is the most underused, but I would argue that it's probably the most used stall in the bathroom. I always choose the stall closest to the door, because my experience tells me that when people do their walking survey of the stall options, they always keep walking past the first one. Another idea is to find the one with the poop stain in the bowl. Although the bowl is dirty, that toilet probably hasn't been used in a long time because it is always rejected in the walking survey. Nicest facilities I've encountered: Mirant Corp, Atlanta, GA. Each stall was like it's own little room with full walls and a floor to ceiling door. Very private and insulated from sound. Worst facilities: Siemens, Guadalajara, Mexico. You couldn't flush the toilet paper down the toilet. You had to put the dirty tp in the trash basket next to the crapper. Disgusting. Plus that bathroom had extremely high traffic.
Mine kicks ass, huge stalls with FULL doors and and we just got some kinda nice foam soap that is really good... OH and it is really clean..
seeing as I spend most of my time in a small lab in the staging area of a terminal..... this is my toilet now dont you all feel lucky? needless to say...I dont use it unless it is a dire emergency.
Working on a floor of programmers (95+% guys), leads to a very bad break room. Yesterday, the mail room guy walked out and patrolled with the tp stuck to the shoe.
We have 2 sinks and four stalls. It is kept clean every 2 days by a cleaning staff. Here is a story: One day I had to drop the kids off at the pool and went down to the office restroom. The first two stalls were taken, and in the last stall there were wads of TP and Poo that I wouldnt dare try to flush. So I went in the 3rd stall. Im sitting there taking care of my business when all of a sudden I hear the Office Fatty McFatAss come in a whistling. The whistling grows stronger and louder as he gets nearer. Finally he is at the last stall commenting "Someone forgot to flush the toilet!". Im thinking to myself "NOOOO!!! dont flush it!!" But fattie does! I quickly hike my knees and dropped trousers to my chest as water and poo spill out his toilet and into my stall. "Sorry about that", He said. "Dont worry about it, I was finished." I pulled up my pants, tip toed through the water and left. Here is why I didnt go off on him: A few weeks before the same thing happened to Fattie but in reverse roles. He was minding his business pinching a loaf, and Softball Guy came in and flushed a toilet that overflowed into Fattys stall. Fattie cursed him out, and Soft Ball Guy told him how shocked he was to hear those words come from such a self proclaimed religous man! Fattie went home that night and had a heart attack!
Considering I work and share the bathroom with hundreds of kids.... There are most certainly good days and bad days.
We have no women at our office, so the ladies room is used as a bombing range. Do not go in there unless you are serious !!! Do not bring a pop gun to a battle of Dreadnaughts. DD
Ours isn't too bad. One urinal, two stalls (one handicap). Sometimes I'll head down to the bathroom near the main lobby, because it has about 8 stalls. I'm really picky about when I will go take care of business at work. If someone else is in there, I'll just turn right back around and check back in about 10 minutes. It's just a common courtesy I think that too often goes overlooked. I don't want to be in a small room while some guy takes a dump, and I would hope others feel the same way.
Here's a story I have to tell you guys... One time, me and my little brother went to the bathroom at the Sears in Pasadena Town Square mall. He had to use "#2" and had to use "#1". Well, I walk out after I am done and I am waiting. I see a man walk in while I am walking out. Well, my brother is taking a little while so I decide to walk back in and see whats going on. He had the door open and was done, he was just staring at the toilet. I look down at the toiler and he had put too much paper in there, (he thought the big toilet could handle it) and just as I told him not flush it (he had already flushed it twice); he flushed it again. This time, the water came up, and overflowed. The sound of the water hitting the floor was loud. It sounded like a waterfall hitting rocks. The man in the stall next to him was using the bathroom and his stall had the drain so naturally the water was flowing down at a slight angle to his stall. I hear him say "Ohhhhh MAAAAN". To this day, I can still hear him say those words and I can't help cracking up. I know its wrong, I just can't help it. Someday, somone may ruin my pants and shoes for a laughing as hard as I did that day!!!
