How are the toilets in your work ?

[Johnnytheboy]

Office attached to a garden centre.

One cubicle for a lot of people, and a reasonable walk from my office, so often am thwarted.

On the plus side we have a new cleaner: a young female who performs her duties in tiny shorts and an approximation of a vest top.

[Mastodon2]

I generally either work from home or visit clients. The bathroom at home is kept spotless and when I visit clients they generally have visitor toilets which tend to be kept clean.

I have been through a lot of airports through work, I've seen some absolute states. The business lounge in Dublin Airport that I went visited recently, had a toilet where it looked like someone had tipped a job lot of curry down the pan. It didn't smell like curry. The dirty git didn't appear to have bothered to flush, or wipe by the looks of it. A trim thought, you have to sit next to these people on the plane.

[Shakermaker]

I work for a company where the main business is cleaning

As such, the toilets are pretty good. and the bonus is that the cubicles are all entirely separate from each other, with their own walls, not just sheets of ply with gaps top and bottom, but proper wooden doors with handles, tiled brick walls and all sorts.

Plus there is a dispenser in each cubicle of sanitary spray so you can wipe the seat clean if you want to as well, there's a timed room perfume dispenser and a thing on the back of the door to sanitise the main door handle every time the door closes so even if the scummer in front of you hasn't washed his hands properly, the spray will kill any residual bacteria

[BigMon]

I work for a small manufacturing company and, as we've expanded and taken on more people, we've had to let the factory staff use the 'posh toilets' in our stairwell.

These are very poorly designed with no windows, inadequate ventilation and poor seals on the doors.

I think they were only ever designed for 'courtesy use' not for Bill from extrusions to drop off the weekend ten pints and a vindaloo. The stench in the stairwell is beyond belief at times.

[XJSJohn]

some of the office bogs in Singapore were pretty grim, there was a phase of hiring IT Types fresh off the plane from Chennai or Bangalore, who were still very much on the South Indian Digestive Movements, but not quite in tune with the western style throne as opposed to a squat job, the result being someone squatting on the seat and pebbledashing the whole cubicle.

Naturally the evolution of this would be someone unscrewing the toilet seat but leaving it enticingly positioned for a comfortable squat over the bog. End results were a few broken legs and a cracked skull before HR got involved (and a lesson on how to use different toilets was administered)

[Coilspring]

Coolbanana said:

When I worked for others I would avoid building site toilets but the office wc's were often not much better.

Visit the Architects or the like and they were immaculate in comparison.

When I go to restaurants, the more expensive the establishment, the cleaner the wc's seem to be.

Obviously there are exceptions, but in my experience, most dirty pigs out there dwell among the less educated. Sad that this seems to be the case, it isn't difficult to go to the toilet without making it unpleasant for the next person.

(Just thought, imagine going to a Brexiter Convention, the state of the toilets there!
Kidding! Obvs )

[TheK1981]

I work at a motorway services, on a good day they are grim, on a bad day its beyond description, how do people manage to make such a mess and not cover themselves?

[Ikemi]

I work with educated professionals. Our toilets are not too bad in terms of cleanliness, but there has been several occasions where a huge log has been left in one of the toilet bowls - with no sign of any paperwork. Not even one wipe to double check! How does one manage that?!

'Lake of p' is another occurrence, although less common. I personally think some of these people enjoy the 'freedom' to urinate (mark their territory?) wherever they fancy, without incurring the wrath of their wives!

ETA: The visitor toilets by Reception can smell after a morning, which in turn carries the smell into our main foyer area ... Nice.

Edited by Ikemi on Monday 22 July 15:59

[Gary29]

Ours are surprisingly good considering the range of animals we have working here. Not one permanent female in the entire building of 30 or so blokes, 2/3 of which actually perform manual labour, I know, how uncouth!

[Brainpox]

Given they are only cleaned once a day (not at all at weekends) and they are in use 24/7 by a large number of people, they stay virtually immaculate. I work in a hospital.

[anonymous-user]

Not me but I worked with ex miners telling stories about guys hitting near where they worked, after 10 pints the previous day, and the smell staying all day

[Nealio]

I work in an engineering research centre. Pretty much everyone (in the office areas at least) is degree level educated and probably 10-20% are PhDs.

Still find toilet bowls pebble dashed and massive skid marks etc.

[worsy]

Working in an office where the gents has no urinals, all cubicles. First requirements is to pick a cubicle where the seat is not covered in pi**, then one where the seat is cold

The floor I'm on is grim (IT) so i tend to go to the HR floor where the ratio of women to men is higher

[Greshamst]

The two quirks I’ve noticed previously are...

Working at a large bank HQ, the floor I was on clearly used to be the ‘executive floor’ before open plan came into play. Truly separate cubicle ‘rooms’, marble, each room cubicle had its own sink. It was bliss.

Said company also had tech people working that had come over from east, which led to signs on the back of the door illustrating not standing on the toilet seat, or washing your feet in the sink amongst other things.

[MG CHRIS]

Ours are pretty clean however don't think many people actually use it and for comparison I work in a commercial dealership.

[sooperscoop]

Working on a large industrial site in China at the mo, the office has squat toilets with one western-style stter on one floor.

Out on site, the toilet block is just stting in a hole over a septic tank, with low walls between each hole but no door. It's 40C today, it does not smell good.

[XJSJohn]

sooperscoop said:

Working on a large industrial site in China at the mo, the office has squat toilets with one western-style stter on one floor.

Out on site, the toilet block is just stting in a hole over a septic tank, with low walls between each hole but no door. It's 40C today, it does not smell good.

Been there done that, and people say "ohh how exotic, working in Asia ……. "

[Rod200SX]

Small office of 6 people and our office used to be a bathroom showroom. so we've got one lovely WC with shower cubicle, fancy toilet, heated towel rail etc.

Advantage of a small office!

[anonymous-user]

TheK1981 said:

I work at a motorway services, on a good day they are grim,

Ooooh hard luck.
Do you ever ring any of the numbers on the back of the doors ?
Or just read the messages
Lymn truckstop had many interesting ones

[Du1point8]

XJSJohn said:

sooperscoop said:

Working on a large industrial site in China at the mo, the office has squat toilets with one western-style stter on one floor.

Out on site, the toilet block is just stting in a hole over a septic tank, with low walls between each hole but no door. It's 40C today, it does not smell good.

Been there done that, and people say "ohh how exotic, working in Asia ……. "

Singapore Banks... Individual cubicles with western toilets and when you walk in there you notice that it always seems to have a lake, then cant see the showering hose for washing arse with, then it goes through your head... Oh its not water its piss... eh... but how is there so fking much of it in every cubicle!!

Oh right its the certain culture of people that probably usually break the seat too...

Too many times I would simply walk the 300m back to the Satelite office we had, at least they had toilets not covered in piss and st.