How are the toilets in your work ?
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I work in a 1930's civic building with a newer extension. Original toilets are pristine - spacious, tiled floors, wooden cubical doors with brass locks, 500 litres per flush, I wouldn't be surprised to find someone had set up a desk in there. Newer extension toilets are atrocious - small and cramped cubicles, dim lighting, no urinals, filthy walls, flush is merely a token trickle.
love the sopranos italy toilet bit, sums it for me, even in supposed nice places abroad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMBZkU2uFBY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMBZkU2uFBY
Testaburger said:
Aeroplane toilets. Aggressive vacuum action.
A nice touch is that on my new jet, the toilet has a window. It’s pleasant to gaze out at the clouds or night sky in such circumstances.
The problem I encountered was not being used to a toilet window, and going for a number when on the ground. With people all over the tarmac, whom I’d probably exposed myself to.
I thought this was fantasy till I realized your occupation. I know that windowA nice touch is that on my new jet, the toilet has a window. It’s pleasant to gaze out at the clouds or night sky in such circumstances.
The problem I encountered was not being used to a toilet window, and going for a number when on the ground. With people all over the tarmac, whom I’d probably exposed myself to.
I'm currently plying my trade in a factory owned by an East Midlands Aerospace jet engine maker.
In Staffordshire.
To coin an over used phrase, the toilets are the Rolls Royce of Toilets.
That is they are out dated, smelly and they leak. That's the factory toilets.
The office gents is f
king weird.
Imagine this.
A door from.the corridor. Opens on the right.
Behind it on the right is a urinal. So if the door is open you can't see whose pissing.
Then along the wall, a sink. Then a wall and a door, beyond which is a sit down lockable cubicle.
Apparently if I want to use said cubicle I should lock the door to the corridor ( preventing anyone from using the urinal) and not just lock the door to the cubical ( allowing people to use the urinal)
I found this out because having earned a tenner having a st* I came out of the cubical to find a bloke # having a slash. So I washed my hands and made to leave and found he had locked the door to the corridor. He then proceeded to give me a lecture, about how I should have locked the outer door.
Like I said Weird.
But Clean and very 1975.
In Staffordshire.
To coin an over used phrase, the toilets are the Rolls Royce of Toilets.
That is they are out dated, smelly and they leak. That's the factory toilets.
The office gents is f
king weird.Imagine this.
A door from.the corridor. Opens on the right.
Behind it on the right is a urinal. So if the door is open you can't see whose pissing.
Then along the wall, a sink. Then a wall and a door, beyond which is a sit down lockable cubicle.
Apparently if I want to use said cubicle I should lock the door to the corridor ( preventing anyone from using the urinal) and not just lock the door to the cubical ( allowing people to use the urinal)
I found this out because having earned a tenner having a s
t* I came out of the cubical to find a bloke # having a slash. So I washed my hands and made to leave and found he had locked the door to the corridor. He then proceeded to give me a lecture, about how I should have locked the outer door. Like I said Weird.
But Clean and very 1975.
- The old contractors saying "If you aren't doing a ten pound st you aren't on a high enough hourly rate"
- This bloke is the same bloke, who told me he couldn't explain something technical that he knows all about because and i quote "I'm not on a high enough pay grade" which turns put to be a resentment he's held for 10 years since the company regraded all the jobs and he found that he was not as high in the structure as he thought he should be.
Both of my toilets at work are pretty clean.
...but then again I work from home.
The toilets at my HQ are questionable, seats always broken, always a film of piss.
But at least we have fully sealed off cubicles, unlike american office toilets which I sometimes have the displeasure of needing to use.
...but then again I work from home.
The toilets at my HQ are questionable, seats always broken, always a film of piss.
But at least we have fully sealed off cubicles, unlike american office toilets which I sometimes have the displeasure of needing to use.
I work on the trading floor of a bank.
We have 4 female and 4 male toilets for the whole floor, I'd say at least 400 people on the floor.
Male toilet nearest my desk has 1 urinal and 3 traps. I.e. seriously undersized for the population (as much as we're trying, it's still heavily male populated round here).
Toilets are cleaned quite regularly, I'd say 3-4 times a day.
Despite this, they are literally st hole, pun intended.
WCs clog up at least once a day, and they're then out of order for a couple of days.
Which means that more people are forced to use fewer traps, people start pissing all over the seat and floor and either don't clean up, or just chuck a few bits of TP around, which quickly clog up the toiler and/or accumulate on the floor. And then you step on them and take them out of the toilet with you...
So, few toilets to start with, even fewer as they clog up all the time... what next?
Well what happened next is that the toilet on the floor directly above ours clogged up so bad that it flooded, and started leaking heavily into our toilet, until half the ceiling collapsed with a small cascade of piss...on my bosses head
We have 4 female and 4 male toilets for the whole floor, I'd say at least 400 people on the floor.
Male toilet nearest my desk has 1 urinal and 3 traps. I.e. seriously undersized for the population (as much as we're trying, it's still heavily male populated round here).
Toilets are cleaned quite regularly, I'd say 3-4 times a day.
Despite this, they are literally s
t hole, pun intended.WCs clog up at least once a day, and they're then out of order for a couple of days.
Which means that more people are forced to use fewer traps, people start pissing all over the seat and floor and either don't clean up, or just chuck a few bits of TP around, which quickly clog up the toiler and/or accumulate on the floor. And then you step on them and take them out of the toilet with you...
So, few toilets to start with, even fewer as they clog up all the time... what next?
Well what happened next is that the toilet on the floor directly above ours clogged up so bad that it flooded, and started leaking heavily into our toilet, until half the ceiling collapsed with a small cascade of piss...on my bosses head
Quite enjoying the tales of luxury office toilets.
We have two floors of a shared office building. As it's maintained by MJ Mapp, the entirety of the communal areas are an absolute state. MJ Mapp do a great job. In that their job is to spend as little of the landlord's money on the building as possible. This extends far and wide, from the front door that almost half opens before it catches on the ground, to the crap aircon that hasn't had a single air filter changed in five years, to the 15 year old carpets and the narcoleptic security guard on reception.
Two Traps, Two Urinals per floor. Three sinks but only two soap dispensers. One hand dryer placed so any user completely blocks the doorway.
The whole lot, deafening Dyson dryer aside, is the original fittings from when the place was built in the early 80s.
They get 'cleaned' every evening, which consists of refilling most of the empty paper dispensers, possibly wiping the seat down, and dragging a filthy stinking mop across the floor.
The urinal flush hasn't worked in years.
One of the sinks cracked earlier this year. No idea how. Rather than fix it, they have just taken the handles off the taps so you can't use that sink. Now the u-bend has dried out, the sink has become a direct line to the soil pipe.
We have two floors of a shared office building. As it's maintained by MJ Mapp, the entirety of the communal areas are an absolute state. MJ Mapp do a great job. In that their job is to spend as little of the landlord's money on the building as possible. This extends far and wide, from the front door that almost half opens before it catches on the ground, to the crap aircon that hasn't had a single air filter changed in five years, to the 15 year old carpets and the narcoleptic security guard on reception.
Two Traps, Two Urinals per floor. Three sinks but only two soap dispensers. One hand dryer placed so any user completely blocks the doorway.
The whole lot, deafening Dyson dryer aside, is the original fittings from when the place was built in the early 80s.
They get 'cleaned' every evening, which consists of refilling most of the empty paper dispensers, possibly wiping the seat down, and dragging a filthy stinking mop across the floor.
The urinal flush hasn't worked in years.
One of the sinks cracked earlier this year. No idea how. Rather than fix it, they have just taken the handles off the taps so you can't use that sink. Now the u-bend has dried out, the sink has become a direct line to the soil pipe.
The extractors in our work toilets are marvelous, it's extremely rare for there to be any sort of smell in there as it gets sucked away in an instant. When the extractors go off at the end of the day, the door slams when you let it go because the extractors aren't working against it.
There's an extract in each cubicle and they are proper floor to ceiling cubicles with tiled walls and a proper door. I have literally never walked into a smelly one despite there being only two cubicles for around 20 blokes.
However the urinals are quite erm.....cosy.
There's an extract in each cubicle and they are proper floor to ceiling cubicles with tiled walls and a proper door. I have literally never walked into a smelly one despite there being only two cubicles for around 20 blokes.
However the urinals are quite erm.....cosy.
You think you have it bad.
The gents at my workplace - one cubicle one urinal, cant use cubical without door hitting person stood at urinal. Cleaned once a week !! Yes once and used between 12 people.
Pubes in urinal every day, spit in urinal every day. The cubicle is usually occupied by one of 2 staff -
A 30 stone bloke who smells like ammonia, fold mold and literally has his feet and legs poking out the bottom or
Staff member 2, not sure what he eats but he has about 6 sts a day, and never pulls the trousers up until out of the cubicle and apologises for flashing his whole tackle at you.
You dont know bad work place toilets until you have been through this.
The gents at my workplace - one cubicle one urinal, cant use cubical without door hitting person stood at urinal. Cleaned once a week !! Yes once and used between 12 people.
Pubes in urinal every day, spit in urinal every day. The cubicle is usually occupied by one of 2 staff -
A 30 stone bloke who smells like ammonia, fold mold and literally has his feet and legs poking out the bottom or
Staff member 2, not sure what he eats but he has about 6 s
ts a day, and never pulls the trousers up until out of the cubicle and apologises for flashing his whole tackle at you.You dont know bad work place toilets until you have been through this.
I work in a brand new flash office in Westminster (just). The toilets are immaculate, cleaned several times a day, plus most of the people who work here are architects, structural engineers and senior PM's, ie all professional people.
We have 3 floors and each floor has its own toilets. Each toilet has 8 cubicles, 8 urinals and basins with flashy combined taps/airblades.
We have 3 floors and each floor has its own toilets. Each toilet has 8 cubicles, 8 urinals and basins with flashy combined taps/airblades.
matrignano said:
I work on the trading floor of a bank.
We have 4 female and 4 male toilets for the whole floor, I'd say at least 400 people on the floor.
Male toilet nearest my desk has 1 urinal and 3 traps. I.e. seriously undersized for the population (as much as we're trying, it's still heavily male populated round here).
Sounds like your building is non-compliant with HSE regulationsWe have 4 female and 4 male toilets for the whole floor, I'd say at least 400 people on the floor.
Male toilet nearest my desk has 1 urinal and 3 traps. I.e. seriously undersized for the population (as much as we're trying, it's still heavily male populated round here).
http://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/faqs/toilets.htm
Gareth1974 said:
Sounds like your building is non-compliant with HSE regulations
http://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/faqs/toilets.htm
Must be a case for the Toilet Watch commandos http://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/faqs/toilets.htm
2 traps in the gents, no urinals. Gets cleaned once a day.
It's a bit hit and miss as to the state you find them in. Although recently someone has taken to dismantling the flush button, and then more recently have started jamming one of the pieces down into the mechanism so the water keeps running into the pan. I'm sure they're just building up to a grand finale where they block the toilet completely and flood the building. fking wker 
Today's delight was left by some foul bowelled troglodyte. Went in for a piss and the warning bells started to go to full alert due the smell in the corridor. No choice but to venture through the portal, and be hit by the full fury of someone's post-weekend evacuation. Both traps empty, so 50-50 as to whether I'd get the offending cubicle. Both seats were down which made it harder to tell whether any of them were masking any horrors within. Deep breath and I made my choice, went to gingerly lift the seat up and was met by one of the worst sights I've ever seen in a toilet (including music festivals). I reckon this person must have stuffed a cork in their arse, had curry every night over the weekend, saved it all up and then unleashed their guts in the toilet this morning. The best agricultural muck-spreaders have nothing on this person's ability to spread liquid st over a wide area. The underside of the seat was dripping in it, the cover was speckled, the bowl was caked 
How I didn't hurl I don't know, but I lost all urge to piss and had to leave straight away. What's worse is I needed to wash my hands after touching the seat
, but as I left someone else came in. What do you say or do in that situation - avoid all eye contact and say nothing? protest your innocence? or (as in my case) mutter something vague about "some people are disgusting" in the hope they don't think it's you?
No idea what the state is now, I popped to the local Tesco at lunch, but feel sorry for the cleaner when they're in later.
It's a bit hit and miss as to the state you find them in. Although recently someone has taken to dismantling the flush button, and then more recently have started jamming one of the pieces down into the mechanism so the water keeps running into the pan. I'm sure they're just building up to a grand finale where they block the toilet completely and flood the building. f
king wker Today's delight was left by some foul bowelled troglodyte. Went in for a piss and the warning bells started to go to full alert due the smell in the corridor. No choice but to venture through the portal, and be hit by the full fury of someone's post-weekend evacuation. Both traps empty, so 50-50 as to whether I'd get the offending cubicle. Both seats were down which made it harder to tell whether any of them were masking any horrors within. Deep breath and I made my choice, went to gingerly lift the seat up and was met by one of the worst sights I've ever seen in a toilet (including music festivals). I reckon this person must have stuffed a cork in their arse, had curry every night over the weekend, saved it all up and then unleashed their guts in the toilet this morning. The best agricultural muck-spreaders have nothing on this person's ability to spread liquid s
t over a wide area. The underside of the seat was dripping in it, the cover was speckled, the bowl was caked How I didn't hurl I don't know, but I lost all urge to piss and had to leave straight away. What's worse is I needed to wash my hands after touching the seat
, but as I left someone else came in. What do you say or do in that situation - avoid all eye contact and say nothing? protest your innocence? or (as in my case) mutter something vague about "some people are disgusting" in the hope they don't think it's you? No idea what the state is now, I popped to the local Tesco at lunch, but feel sorry for the cleaner when they're in later.
This morning I went into one of our multiple toilet locations.... this one has two traps and three urinals.
The urinals were empty, both traps closed and locked.
And a guy stood waiting. Queuing to use the stter at work.
We have other options he could have walked too, and I'd hate to go into the trap having eyeballed who'd just come out.
Surely one doesn't queue for the stter?!
The urinals were empty, both traps closed and locked.
And a guy stood waiting. Queuing to use the s
tter at work. We have other options he could have walked too, and I'd hate to go into the trap having eyeballed who'd just come out.
Surely one doesn't queue for the s
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