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  • Paper Products Go In the Toilet!

    Have you ever gone into the gas station and been afraid to use the toilet? I have. In my store, we have two bathrooms. One is for the employees, one is for the customers. Unfortunately, the employee bathroom's toilet is broken and we have to use the other one. There hasn't been a day yet that I have gone into the public bathroom and found urine on the toilet. Sometimes, I have even found urine on the lid of the tank. How? The bathroom reeks of it, and urine is even found on the floor. There have been other body fluids on the floor as well. (some from going number two)

    I went to the bathroom to do the cleaning for my shift, and I found paper stuck to the inside of the garbage lid. I thought maybe it was gum, but the bathroom smelled worse than usual. When I pulled the paper off, it was covered in s%#t. A lot of it. There was even s%#t on top of the lid and the wall. When I asked my boss about it, he said that people from other countries throw "that kind of paper" in the trash cause they aren't used to using toilets. I don't know if this is true or not, but it is gross and we work really hard to clean that bathroom. So please, I know customers don't have to clean it, but have some respect! Put the paper products in the toilet!
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    Problem is, some customers like me tend to clog toilets, creating overflow. I try to be neat about my situation, with my bladder problems and urges. I would wait until the clog settles and try to flush again, but if I clog it beyond my abilities to repair, I'd tell an employee about it. Where there is no garbage can, a clogged toilet is my only way to tell myself that I am done in the public washroom. I will, however, try to fix the clog myself before telling an employee.

    Which is why I'm glad for the trash can, where I can dispose of my urine-soaked paper. I will not, however put poop-covered paper in it, though. And I would rather stuff a small roll of urine-soaked TP into the garbage can than into the toilet. At least I'm neat about it.
    Last edited by cindybubbles; 12-17-2013, 11:23 PM. Reason: capitalized the p in "problem"
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    • #3
      I sympathize with you but your manager is sorta correct. Some people are used to using toilets with piping that cannot handle having toilet paper going through it otherwise it could clog the whole system and damage it. Them throwing the pooppaper into the trashcan IS actually showing respect.... However there is the correct way to throw it away and the not so correct don't really care where and how it ends up kind of way.

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      • #4
        Quoth pinky View Post
        When I asked my boss about it, he said that people from other countries throw "that kind of paper" in the trash cause they aren't used to using toilets. I don't know if this is true or not, but it is gross and we work really hard to clean that bathroom. So please, I know customers don't have to clean it, but have some respect! Put the paper products in the toilet!

        He's right. I was talking to someone that made the trek to the Mt Everest base camp and he said that every toilet he stopped at has signs telling people not to put the paper in the toilet.

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        • #5
          Be careful cleaning toilets that bad!

          I managed to get norovirus when I cleaned the loos at the station I was at at the time. Some disgusting person had messed all over the place, and I was in a rush to clean it up. Left work, and got stuck in the traffic on the way home, and arrived feeling queasy. Woke up after a short unhappy sleep to throwing up so hard I broke the blood vessels in my face.

          You can't stop people being slobs, but be sure to take care of yourself.

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          • #6
            I've seen disgusting messes more times than I care to remember. Somebody went number 2 a few days ago, and somehow managed to get it all over the toilet tank. I couldn't figure out just what had transpired for that to happen. To their credit, they actually tried to wipe it up.

            Somebody actually clogged the toilet up pretty badly a while ago. I actually threw up a bit from the sight of it. I ended up scooping out said horror (with a toilet brush) into a plastic bag and dumping it in the trash.
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            • #7
              Tell me about it.....

              One day last week, I was giving the bathrooms at work their regular (every other hour) clean, and found a pair of underpants in one of the mens' cubicles - someone had messed themselves, stepped out of their trollies and just left them beside the toilet.... Well, I dealt with them (muttering curses under my breath) and finished the cleaning.

              Less than half an hour later, customer services called to tell me that a customer had mentioned something disgusting in one of the bathrooms... I went back, and this time it was in the ladies'. One of the cubicles was....well, I stood there looking at it and thinking 'How the heck did you manage to get that there??' Without going into much more detail - suffice it to say that the word 'plastered' came to mind...

              They don't pay me enough for that job. Really they don't.
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              • #8
                Ok, Ok, since this thread is going entirely in this direction, I must include one of my restroom stories:

                At one of my previous stores, the ladies room had stalls with the metal dividing walls, you know, the ones that don't connect completely to the back main tiled wall (about an inch) except where its bolted at top and bottom...

                Well, some people have very explosive accidents and this one topped all accidental explosions. It was splattered all over the tank and wall ABOVE the tank and expanded in each direction including almost halfway across the wall into the next stall. This is one of those situations where you must begin with a direct hot water mop on all surfaces before doing any detail cleaning. All the while I was doing this I couldn't help imagining being someone sitting in that next stall, hearing the person rush into the restroom, maybe slam the stall door, and explode before sitting down; shooting debris into my stall right behind my back and maybe my hair! So horrifying.

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                • #9
                  This really made me think of this:

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                  • #10
                    Just so long as people realise that not all paper products are flushable... I'm fed up with hooking hand towels out of our toilet, and what makes it worse is it's staff only! No-one seems to know who's doing it though.
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                    • #11
                      I've seen that lots of times in the men's toilet in my last job. A coworker should know better though
                      “I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
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                      • #12
                        And people wonder why any commercial bathroom I remodel gets full epoxy-bedded tile, ceiling included, and if they don't have a floor drain I make sure to install one. That way it can be cleaned with a small electric pressure washer.

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                        • #13
                          Maybe it's time your company closed the public washroom for good if possible. They won't have to have insurance, and no one will have to clean it up and expose themselves to who knows what disease. You guys aren't probably paid enough to deal with biohazard waste.
                          I always say if people can't help themselves from abusing the privilige of a public washroom or any other privilige then it's time to take it away.
                          Or, if they can't close it due to city ordinances or head office is unwilling, maybe it's time to "break" it and forget to call the plumber or something and/or leave the OUT of ORDER sign on it permanently and lock the damn thing.
                          I'm not trying to be as ass but if people won't respect your property and conveniences provided, then it's time to take it away and save everyone the hassle. I'm sure though not certain in all cases they don't go home and piss and shit all over their house.

                          I'm also putting a caveat out there that some people may have medical conditions that might cause messes from time to time but that shouldn't be everyday all day like the case mentioned above.

                          Oh I forgot to mention, you can remodel the bathroom so all you have to do is pressure wash it. If it's wet and slippery and "Out of Order" for a while, then too bad. It's better than not having one at all.
                          Last edited by frostbitte; 12-18-2013, 03:12 PM. Reason: Forgot to add a paragraph

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                          • #14
                            The worst thing found stuffed down the toilet at one of the places I worked was pages from porn mags. They blocked up that loo something terrible! None of the guys would admit to being the culprit but it was for employees only and there were only 3 male employees!

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                            • #15
                              At least they throw it in the trash can. The ones that do that at my store throw it in the floor.

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