Thanks for stealing our soap

[depechemodefan]

As you can imagine in any public place with public bathrooms, stuff get stolen. Paper towels are the most stolen item, though for a while people were stealing the toliet seats. Oh, and fun, people smash the mirrors. We had one bathroom with a smashed mirror, which we kept closed for 4 months.

A bunch of people complain we have no soap in the bathrooms. Most attitudes were the "You assholes, you don't put soap in the bathrooms just to inconvienence me!" Considering how much we hate complaints, why would we purposefully keep soap away from you?

Though one complainer was some police captain or bureucrat. I think he never had to work with the homeless, or the public, or criminals. Shit gets stolen, it's not our fault.

The cleaning people got to the bathrooms in a cycle of every 2-3hours, cleaning and refilling the soap. I figure, as usual, the homeless people are using the soap to take a "bath" in our bathrooms, so they use it up quick.

So finally management got two people to go to each bathrooms (one guy, one gal) and count the empty soap dispenser. Eeach dispenser is a plastic thing that has some type of lock, and has a bag of liquid soap in it. The guy went into the mens bathroom on one floor and found one guy stealing the bag of soap. How he opened the plastic dispenser without breaking it is a question not answered.

So far no one has complained about no soap.

[TheSHAD0W]

Actually, it's more than likely the homeless people are *drinking* the soap. It contains some alcohols, and can be used to get high from.

[MoonCat]

People do this everywhere. My mother brought paper towels to the senior center for use in the bathrooms. Someone stole them. Twice. So she stopped doing it. She couldn't believe someone would steal a partial roll of paper towels! I said if it ain't nailed down, they'll take it. And if they can pry it up, it ain't nailed down.

[Zoom]

They're practicing for when they get caught, go to jail and have to play "Dropped the Soap"!

[Caffienated_Caramel]

I said if it ain't nailed down, they'll take it. And if they can pry it up, it ain't nailed down.

^ This, so true.

I remember at my first civilian job, I was told they used to have big containers (dunno if they were pumps) of creamer for coffee in the lobby area but that stopped when the old ppl/coffee addicts took the whole containers and kept them in their rooms until they checked out.

[pitmonkey]

The soap dispencers are very easy to open, You just push up a lever on the bottom and the front cover come right down.

[Cosmart Security]

Yeah, we get people that still soap, however unfortunatly too often, it isn't for personal use

[Jay 2K Winger]

if it ain't nailed down, they'll take it. And if they can pry it up, it ain't nailed down.

Or as I like to phrase it: They'll steal anything that isn't nailed down. Then they'll pry that up, steal it and the nails as well.

[Dark Psion]

We just had to change out all the toilet paper dispensers on campus because someone must have gotten the keys that unlock them. We had problems with the TP disappearing from the pool area bathrooms, then suddenly it was gone all over campus. We figured someone had managed to get a bunch of keys and probably handed them out to all their friends.

[Crossbow]

We just had to change out all the toilet paper dispensers on campus because someone must have gotten the keys that unlock them. We had problems with the TP disappearing from the pool area bathrooms, then suddenly it was gone all over campus. We figured someone had managed to get a bunch of keys and probably handed them out to all their friends.

Gotten, or more likely, hacked together. We had an access panel to some network wiring in our dorm room with security screws holding it closed. Took us about 2 weeks to make a key out of an old fork....

[Desk clerk knows all]

Once someone stole the toilet brush from our meeting room bathroom.

[EricKei]

The paper towel and TP dispensers at almost every place I've worked actually came with keys meant to open them...the thing is, the "keyholes" were just slits holding open little plastic prongs that could be bypassed and opened by inserting ANY key you had handy, a butter knife, or something similar.

[42_42_42]

We had someone steal a set of 24 small cups out of our elementary Sunday school class room over the summer last year.

[dragon_wings]

The paper towel and TP dispensers at almost every place I've worked actually came with keys meant to open them...the thing is, the "keyholes" were just slits holding open little plastic prongs that could be bypassed and opened by inserting ANY key you had handy, a butter knife, or something similar.

This. The paper towel holders in the bathrooms at my store just require jiggling of any key in the keyslot. And the tp holders just require a good hit with one's fist to pop open.

[wolfie]

I think he never had to work with the homeless, or the public, or criminals. Shit gets stolen, it's not our fault.

Having read a number of the SC stories around here, I wouldn't be surprised if someone stole shit. Not enough in the world to deal with that situation, though.

Actually, it's more than likely the homeless people are *drinking* the soap. It contains some alcohols, and can be used to get high from.

Considering it also contains SOAP, which is known to have a laxative effect even in small quantities, I would hate to be around anyone who drank it.

We had an access panel to some network wiring in our dorm room with security screws holding it closed. Took us about 2 weeks to make a key out of an old fork....

Back when I worked in computers (VLB systems were fairly common), during an office move the IT department set up all the computers with network cards in the leftmost slot, fastened with a security screw. Slight problem - on VLB systems, the leftmost 2 slots were VLB, and the multi I/O (including drive controllers) was a VLB card, so it couldn't be moved to an ISA slot. My group wrote (and needed to test) video drivers, and some of the testing needed to be done on VLB cards. A dollar store screwdriver, a file, and 10 minutes, and my group had a screwdriver for the security screws - network cards evicted into an ISA slot, leaving the second VLB slot available for video cards.

We had someone steal a set of 24 small cups out of our elementary Sunday school class room over the summer last year.

Since (AFAIK) Sunday School is associated with Christian churches, it sounds like someone needed to be reminded about the 8th commandment.

And the tp holders just require a good hit with one's fist to pop open.

I guess the locks on those were designed by Arthur Fonzerelli.