First job of the day....(warning, gross)

[Marmalady]

First thing I do when I get to work is to have a bathroom clean, make sure they're all up to scratch and then I know they'll be OK for a while so I can get on with other things. Yesterday I'm heading that way, when I see the store manager coming towards me.

'Going to do the bathrooms?' he asks and I nod. 'Well, how shall I put this - the men's one needs some, uh, urgent attention... someone has smeared a load of you-know-what over the cubicle wall.'

I said 'What on earth is wrong with people?' and he said 'I have no idea.'

So I said 'Never mind, I'll fettle it' to which he replied 'I know you will.'

Yep. Plenty of it, and smeared high up too, so this wasn't a little kid. But Marmalady made it all clean and sparkling again. At least the day only improved from that point.

[eltf177]

I swear, if I ever caught one of these people I would make them lick it up...

[Marmalady]

I swear, if I ever caught one of these people I would make them lick it up...

The same thought has occurred to me too.

[DescJockey]

You have my complete sympathy. When I worked in one particular liquor store, people did really disgusting things in the bathrooms. I never understood why that store was so particularly bad in that regard.

But when I was there, we had people of both genders regularly crap their drawers and leave them on the floor. We had women who would get blood all over the toilet. We had men who completely missed the urinal. And we had men who painted a fecal picture on the wall.

I always had to wonder what these people's homes looked like. *shudder*

[Becks]

'Going to do the bathrooms?' he asks and I nod. 'Well, how shall I put this - the men's one needs some, uh, urgent attention... someone has smeared a load of you-know-what over the cubicle wall.'

Sooooooooo, they let it stay there for who knows how long, until YOU got there, so YOU could clean it?

[wordgirl]

Ugh. If things are that bad, close the restroom and call in a professional cleaning crew. That's a biohazard.

I refused to clean up a similar mess at a restaurant where I was hostessing. Even if I'd known I'd be fired on the spot for refusing - which I was, by the way - losing the job was by far the lesser of two evils. (I've gone back and forth in the decades since over whether it was fair to fire me, not that it matters, but I always did think I was right to stand my ground.)

[depechemodefan]

I think I told this story before, not sure....

One day at the library a guy was waiting his turn to use a computer (there is a reservation terminal that will tell you which computer to use at your turn; you don't stand around waiting for one to free up and pounce on it), but he needed to go to the bathroom. The bathroom is only 20 feet away, and unless you are constipated, or have kidney stones or some impediment, I'm pretty sure a guy can pee pretty fast (we clocked a regular, who can run from a computer, pee, and run back to a computer in 23 seconds, and that was for a floor where the bathroom was maybe 100 feet away)

So anyway, he doesn't pee then wait for his computer. 30 min. after complaining he needed to pee but had to wait for a computer, he pees in a water fountain. A water fountain that is 5 feet from a urinal. then he tells us he is HIV+. One thing about working for the City, Biohazard will show up the same day.

TL;DR SC peed in a water fountain and told us he was HIV+

[Marmalady]

Sooooooooo, they let it stay there for who knows how long, until YOU got there, so YOU could clean it?

To be fair, I don't think it had been there all that long... and as housekeeper that is one of my jobs (we have gloves and chemical and all that kind of thing).

And I do have a strong stomach - I've cleared up the aftermath of what can only be described as 'explosions' in the bathrooms - the sort where you can only marvel at how high / far / wide they've managed to splatter it - where others have seen it and rushed off to be sick. And yes, soiled underwear, and all the fluids and methods for absorbing them that are associated with womens' reproductive cycles.

As for what peoples' homes look like - they don't do that sort of thing at home, because they'd be the ones cleaning it up.

[Deserted]

TL;DR SC peed in a water fountain and told us he was HIV+

I would've done my damnedest to press charges. Bioterrorism or something. Absolutely ruin the shitbag's life.

[Ben_Who]

Ugh. If things are that bad, close the restroom and call in a professional cleaning crew. That's a biohazard.

I refused to clean up a similar mess at a restaurant where I was hostessing. Even if I'd known I'd be fired on the spot for refusing - which I was, by the way - losing the job was by far the lesser of two evils. (I've gone back and forth in the decades since over whether it was fair to fire me, not that it matters, but I always did think I was right to stand my ground.)

You were absolutely right to stand your ground, and your boss was being terribly unfair. You're a human being, and as such deserve to be treated with a quantum of dignity; you didn't have the equipment or training for biohazard removal and you certainly weren't operating in that pay bracket.

It was also ridiculously short-sighted for your boss. You were refusing to do one job; because your boss was a twit, you weren't available to do ANY job. That was clearly more of a hassle for him than for you, so your boss clearly shot himself in the foot with that one.

If your boss makes increasingly outrageous demands, who knows what he'll ask you to do next - and threaten you with unemployment if you don't? "But sir, I've never changed the oil in your car--" "Do it or you're fired. When you're done, go to my house and do the vacuuming."

[wolfie]

If your boss makes increasingly outrageous demands, who knows what he'll ask you to do next - and threaten you with unemployment if you don't? "But sir, I've never changed the oil in your car--" "Do it or you're fired. When you're done, go to my house and do the vacuuming."

Don't forget, after they've done the personal chores for the boss, "WTF were you wasting your time with - you didn't get any of your work done?"

As for the oil change, my 20 year old Hyundai takes 10W30 SG rated oil. I'm sure a brand new Mercedes BluTec (i.e. diesel) is the same. Oops, the drain plug suddenly got a LOT easier to turn when I put it back in, and it seems to be cyclic with the rotation. I'll just turn it to the stiffest point - it should hold.

[greek_jester]

Oops, the drain plug suddenly got a LOT easier to turn when I put it back in, and it seems to be cyclic with the rotation. I'll just turn it to the stiffest point - it should hold.

OK, colour me confused. Why is this a bad thing?

[eltf177]

If it's not tight it can work loose, with devastating consequences...

[wolfie]

Threads stripped (that's where it got easier to turn). The stiffest point is where the remnants of the threads are sort of holding - just asking for vibration to shake it loose so the plug falls out, followed by the oil.

BTW, the oil spec I gave is for a mid-to-late '90s gasoline engine. A brand new BluTec would take a much lighter oil (probably 5W40, 0W30, or 0W40) rated either CJ-4 or a Mercedes-defined specification. You do NOT use oils rated only for gasoline engines in a diesel.

[Swordsman422]

This reminds me of a story from way back in my hobby store days, before I was brave enough to chase the wind.

This was more than a decade ago at this point. About 15 minutes before we closed, a kid came in, poked around for a while, then asked to use the bathroom. We hadn't been wise enough to close it to customers yet. We the employees continue about our business and forget about the kid. We're getting ready to close the store when it dawns on us we never saw the boy leave, so I go check the bathroom to see if he's gone and we just missed him. He had forgotten to lock it, so I walk in on him, turd in hand, writing "Jason wuz here" in shit on the wall. Anger was expressed, cops and mothers were called, discipline was meted out, and fun was had by all parties.

For a kid to do this is one level of terrible, but with enough paddlings it can be overcome by adulthood. But for an adult to willingly do it is truly disgusting. I feel for you.