There are two ladies’ rooms on our floor. Each equipped with two or more stalls. For the most part all the women that use these facilities are quite clean and tidy. They don’t leave the counter-top wet. In more than 5 years I’ve never found the toilet seat to be dirty. There are even dispensers for antibacterial cleaning spray that you can wipe the seat with but I have rarely found the need to use them.
Recently we have been finding the toilet seat splattered with, eww…yellow-ish stains. These stains are so apparent and dirty that one doesn’t even want to use the cleanser to clean the seat. We just avoid that stall and use another one.
Since we have been the same group of ladies someone actually brought up the subject in a passing discussion. She just mentioned, “I wonder what’s going on with the bathroom?” This got us all thinking and we realized that a new girl has joined and her desk is right nearby the offending bathroom.
Sadly the girl is from the “far east” and more than two of us have had previous experiences where women from that part of the world tend to either lean/hover just above the toilet or even crouch on it because they don’t want to “make contact”. This leaves quite a mess because, let’s face it, we really can’t aim like the men can.
Now what to do? Do we put up a note on the back of the stall saying, “Please be considerate and clean up after yourself?”
dirty toilets are a part of "life"
and figuring out how to tell this person that is dirtying them is part of "relationships"
I can't imagine where else this would be discussed.....
Make it more hilarious by writing in her(accused) far eastern language, specific.
On a serious note, maybe she has some sitting problem or she is new to it.
On a related note. We have unisex toilets. So whenever I am done doing my business peacefully, only to realize that there is no toilet paper left. I handle the situation in two ways:
If there is someone in the stall next to me, I politely ask them to throw me some toilet paper over the stall.
If there is no one in the other stall. I crawl under the stall to retrieve some, praying no one comes in the whole time. I then usually ask myself why I chose to crawl under the stall when I could have simply walked out and grabbed some. I'm still thinking about it now.
Totally get what you are saying Muzna. At my previous workplace there were a few who would do this. The problem got so bad that the President herself had to send an e-mail to the whole company stating that if it doesn't stop they will investigate and find the people who have a complete disregard for cleanliness. That stopped it for a while but not completely. There are people who just don't know how to use a bathroom, atleast a public one.
On a related note. We have unisex toilets. So whenever I am done doing my business peacefully, only to realize that there is no toilet paper left. I handle the situation in two ways:
If there is someone in the stall next to me, I politely ask them to throw me some toilet paper over the stall.
If there is no one in the other stall. I crawl under the stall to retrieve some, praying no one comes in the whole time. I then usually ask myself why I chose to crawl under the stall when I could have simply walked out and grabbed some. I'm still thinking about it now.
You people are from different planet. In men's room, what every touch the floor belongs to the floor or to garbage can.
Do put a serious note up and describe what you mean. And have someone send an email out to ladies only.
It’s super disgusting and it drives me totalllyy crazy!! . Sometimes I want to grab whoever is doing it and knock some sense into them. Punish them by making them clean the whole damn bathroom!!
On the other hand, maybe while just chit chatting point out to the girl how messy the bathroom is and wonder who is doing all that. Like “I dont get it. Who could be doing that? So disgusting and not super clean. etc etc”
Additionally stick this on the bathroom door (entrance) . Its by Seth G.
“Clean bathroomsThe facilities at DisneyWorld are clean. It’s not a profit center, of course. They don’t make them clean because they’re going to charge you to use them. They make them clean because if they didn’t, you’d have a reason not to come.
It turns out that just about everything we do involves cleaning the bathrooms. Creating an environment where care and trust are expressed. If you take a lot of time to ask, “how will this pay off,” you’re probably asking the wrong question. When you are trusted because you care, it’s quite likely the revenue will take care of itself.”
