Bog roll - is it just me?

[judas]

[Warning: first world problem alert!]

Is it just me, or is replacing an empty bog roll a mindbendingly difficult or arduous job? Is it mortifyingly embarrassing, or just not the done thing? I have to ask as no one in my company seems to have the wherewithal perform such a herculean task. For that matter, I can't ever recall working anywhere where anyone bothered to do this unless it was when the cleaners came. Am I just working with a bunch of anal retentives who'd rather clench than suffer the indignity of replacing an empty roll?

Anyhow, I've just given everyone a bking, not that I expect it to make the slightest difference.

Share your bog roll related misery here.

[944fan]

Same here.

We quite regularly run out of bog roll waiting for the Tesco delivery at our office.

That's what the corporate brochure is for. Emergency bum wipe.

[Studio117]

If i must defecate in public i use hand sop to wipe the seat. So if its run out i go else where in the building.

[soad]

'Shower toilets' wash away any residue...

[judas]

944fan said:

That's what the corporate brochure is for. Emergency bum wipe.

That's where we're going wrong: our brochure is online only, so wiping your bum with a flatscreen monitor could get expensive very quickly.

[BoRED S2upid]

We have one of those giant dispensers it has 3 massive rolls which you rotate around if ones been used we have never run out.

[Alex@POD]

If it's so little of an issue to replace it if you finish it, is it so much of an issue to replace it when you go in and notice it's empty?

A little tip: don't expect anything to be done for you, and you'll be less frustrated and live a happier life.

[Pistom]

I believe that our housemaid only employs staff who can change toilet rolls.

l don't see the point myself as they could just hold the toilet roll in one hand while they wipe my arse with the other.

[The Beaver King]

I have the reverse problem.

Our office has those bloody massive plastic dispensers that you can only unlock with a twin pronged plastic 'key'. A key which is only entrusted to the most honest, relaiable and trustworthy of people; the cleaners.

I have no fking idea why the business feels the need to install miniature plastic cages to keep the toilet roll in. I can only assume it's because the fking dick-splash that wrote the rule book had some kind of horrible bog roll theft related experience when he was younger and now feels the need to force his st paper related PTSD issues onto every fker else.

Now of course, this wouldn't be an issue if the mighty cleaning team had a basic grasp of two-ply economics as we would be in abundance of the stuff. Alas, they don't and are steadfast in their beliefs that one roll of paper per cubicle per week is sufficient to maintain the rectal cleanliness level of 40 people.

After 'Vindaloo Tuesday', I can use one roll in a single fking afternoon!

The really fking annoying thing is, I would gladly martyr myself and don the grueling task of refilling the bloody things one every 2/3 days. According to senior management "this would not be a productive use of my time" as they saunter off to their 'posh' toilets, which I can only imagined is cramped full to the brim with wet wipes and talcum powder. fking pricks.

This is why I st at home and use really expensive black toilet paper.

[uncinquesei]

[Studio117]

The Beaver King said:

I have the reverse problem.

Our office has those bloody massive plastic dispensers that you can only unlock with a twin pronged plastic 'key'. A key which is only entrusted to the most honest, relaiable and trustworthy of people; the cleaners.

I have no fking idea why the business feels the need to install miniature plastic cages to keep the toilet roll in. I can only assume it's because the fking dick-splash that wrote the rule book had some kind of horrible bog roll theft related experience when he was younger and now feels the need to force his st paper related PTSD issues onto every fker else.

Now of course, this wouldn't be an issue if the mighty cleaning team had a basic grasp of two-ply economics as we would be in abundance of the stuff. Alas, they don't and are steadfast in their beliefs that one roll of paper per cubicle per week is sufficient to maintain the rectal cleanliness level of 40 people.

After 'Vindaloo Tuesday', I can use one roll in a single fking afternoon!

The really fking annoying thing is, I would gladly martyr myself and don the grueling task of refilling the bloody things one every 2/3 days. According to senior management "this would not be a productive use of my time" as they saunter off to their 'posh' toilets, which I can only imagined is cramped full to the brim with wet wipes and talcum powder. fking pricks.

This is why I st at home and use really expensive black toilet paper.

[J4CKO]

Opposite problem at our place, the cleaners stick 20 percent more sheets in the dispenser than they actually hold so the first sheets are picked off in centimetre square bits and fall on the floor, then you get way more than you actually need in one go.

At home, the kids cant get round to changing one fully, they get a roll but leave the empty cardboard tube on the floor, without fail, there it is, imagine how tiring it must be after a day of sleeping until 2pm, a light lunch of Nachos followed by some top level Fifa on the Xbox to have to put that little tube in the recycling, or even worse because the dog played with one once, they give it him, he then feels duty bound to chew it into a million bits across every carpet in the house.

[DrDeAtH]

Could be worse.... You could have that tracing paper stuff like you had in school back in the 80s......

[matchmaker]

Purity14 said:

DrDeAtH said:

Could be worse.... You could have that tracing paper stuff like you had in school back in the 80s......

Izal toilet paper

horrible stuff.

I worked in Aberdeen Sheriff Court in the mid 1980's. Lesley, the head court officer, discovered several boxes of that stuff in the basement and told the cleaners to use it in the staff toilets. There was an immediate mutiny and (under the threat of extreme physical violence) he replaced it with normal loo roll.

Being an old miser he was reluctant to let it go to waste so offered it to Craiginches Prison for use by the cons. This generous offer was immediately refused as in the words of the Governor "I don't want a fking riot on my hands."

Lesley took it home to use.

[bostin01]

Slight thread drift. Was anyone elses Nan obsessed with knitting these?

Both of my Nans did this, so every family member`s household had them to protect our eyes from the HORROR of an exposed loo roll.

Edited by bostin01 on Tuesday 18th August 20:25

[x type]

bostin01 said:

Slight thread drift. Was anyone elses Nan obsessed with knitting these?

Both of my Nans did this, so every family member`s household had them to protect our eyes from the HORROR of an exposed loo roll.

Edited by bostin01 on Tuesday 18th August 20:25

my both Nan's had these and IZAL razor blade toilet paper !

AND outside toilet !

[Pints]

x type said:

bostin01 said:

Slight thread drift. Was anyone elses Nan obsessed with knitting these?

Both of my Nans did this, so every family member`s household had them to protect our eyes from the HORROR of an exposed loo roll.

Edited by bostin01 on Tuesday 18th August 20:25

my both Nan's had these and IZAL razor blade toilet paper !

AND outside toilet !

Mine too. Little wonder my grandad died in his sixties; he probably just couldn't put up with it anymore.

[eharding]

bostin01 said:

Slight thread drift. Was anyone elses Nan obsessed with knitting these?

Both of my Nans did this, so every family member`s household had them to protect our eyes from the HORROR of an exposed loo roll.

Edited by bostin01 on Tuesday 18th August 20:25

What do you mean, "protect our eyes from the HORROR of an exposed loo roll."?

I thought it they were just...well....really ornate knitted woollen bog roll put out specially for visitors?

[turbobloke]

Purity14 said:

DrDeAtH said:

Could be worse.... You could have that tracing paper stuff like you had in school back in the 80s......

Izal toilet paper

horrible stuff.

Referred to at school as skid paper and for good reason.

[judas]

turbobloke said:

Purity14 said:

DrDeAtH said:

Could be worse.... You could have that tracing paper stuff like you had in school back in the 80s......

Izal toilet paper

horrible stuff.

Referred to at school as skid paper and for good reason.

It was bad enough suffering this at school, but one of my mate's parents had the stuff at home! They were definitely more than a little on the weird side...