Why are our bathrooms so gross??

[laborcat]

Automatic flushing toilets (though some of those types and even the manual flushing types spray the water so hard it comes up and lands on the toilet seat).

The facilities at work are like that. I hate it.

[Marmalady]

Our customer toilet on the ground floor (we only have space for one, so it's a 'disabled' one, plus there's also a nappy changing table in there - kind of a 'one size fits all' arrangement) was closed for a few hours yesterday.
Why? Because some nice gentleman had been in there, presumably having had some kind of accident, and had left his extremely soiled underwear behind, plus his braces (wtf?) and had also managed to decorate the wall in the process.
Everyone flatly refused to go in there to clean it up, so a specialist cleaning firm had to be arranged. Of course we got the usual bitching about it being closed.......I felt like saying to one woman, 'Well you go and put your head around the door and then tell me if you'd like to use it.'

[Marmalady]

Guess what?

Apparently our customer toilets are going to be closed and ripped out. It's been decided that as the cafe in our store (run by a separate company) has toilets, and there are also public ones just outside the store, that we don't need to provide them any more. I don't know if that latest piece of grossness prompted that decision..... I predict a LOT of flak from customers over this

[Gerrinson]

The people - both staff & guests - here at my current job are surprisingly good about not being gross in the bathroom. You always get a few, but this is best place I've seen as far as public restrooms go.

In fact, it wasn't until a couple days ago that I saw graffiti in the bathroom when I realized it's the first time in a year of employment that I've seen graffiti in one of our bathrooms.

It does help, of course, that during my normal 8 1/2 hours here our housekeeping staff clean the bathrooms a minimum of 3 times. Constant vigilance is key to nice public restrooms.

On the other hand, some of our guests are a bit...scatterbrained, at times. I had to inform the front desk that someone accidentally left their clothes behind in the men's room. Including undies...

[SuperDan]

It does help, of course, that during my normal 8 1/2 hours here our housekeeping staff clean the bathrooms a minimum of 3 times. Constant vigilance is key to nice public restrooms.

When I was at the store, ours were cleaned every two hours during the daytime. In fact we had a shift whose sole responsibility was to sweep the floors across the entire store on the odd numbered hours and clean the bathrooms on the even numbered hours between 11 and 6, as well as keep up with any cleanup calls or needed spot-mopping during those hours. I think the restrooms at the casino I work at now are cleaned hourly.

[ADoyle90815]

The people - both staff & guests - here at my current job are surprisingly good about not being gross in the bathroom. You always get a few, but this is best place I've seen as far as public restrooms go.

In fact, it wasn't until a couple days ago that I saw graffiti in the bathroom when I realized it's the first time in a year of employment that I've seen graffiti in one of our bathrooms.

It does help, of course, that during my normal 8 1/2 hours here our housekeeping staff clean the bathrooms a minimum of 3 times. Constant vigilance is key to nice public restrooms.

On the other hand, some of our guests are a bit...scatterbrained, at times. I had to inform the front desk that someone accidentally left their clothes behind in the men's room. Including undies...

At my workplace, we have to inspect the bathrooms at least once a shift, and clean it if needed. The men's room has a key that's kept at the counter because almost 2 years ago, it was vandalized by teenagers.

About a month ago, I did notice graffiti, but that was the only time since I started there that I've seen it in the bathrooms. As we're next to an industrial complex, the men's room sink is what needs to be cleaned the most, but it's just dirt.