Perfection and public toilets
Wow, I love this. At least two and a half weeks after the post I made about not being accepted into Perfection, people are STILL commenting on it. I even got an update dedicated to me on Perfection. Uh guys? News flash: I’m over it.
In other news, I apologize for not updating for an unreasonable amount of time. I’ve been busy with my new job, which by the way, has shown me exactly how much of disgusting, dirty, piggy slobs women are.
My newest job is in the maintenance/custodial department of the Empire State Building. Yes, it’s a crappy job, but it’s easy and pays very handsomely. In addition, I can work at my own pace because I’m really not supervised at all and all that matters at the end of the day is that the work got done.
I am assigned to twenty floors in which I check the women’s bathrooms for cleanliness and orderliness. My job description as daytime maintenance is quite literally to make sure the toilet paper, seat covers, soap dispensers, and paper towels are all fully stocked, and to remove any minor offenses such as paper on the floor or tinkle on a toilet seat. If I was expected to deal with more than that, I would have been given more than one measly bottle of windex.
What baffles me is the female sex’s complete inability to clean up after themselves. Really girls, what compels you to pee on the seat, to leave the toilet un-flushed, or to throw paper towels on the floor? If it’s a fear of contracting hepatitis or malaria, your fears are pretty unfounded, and there are ways to deal with it without leaving a path of destruction in your wake. If it’s just a blatant disregard for anyone except yourself, and because you know that someone else will clean it up anyway, then you deserve to have your head flushed in the toilet until you fucking drown.
As for you germophobes? Here are a couple of facts for you. Most public bathrooms are cleaned several times a day. With industrial strength disinfectants. You are actually most likely to contract something from your home toilet than a public toilet. Think about it: how often do you clean your bathroom at home?
I know it can be hard to remember to flush the toilet because of all the automatic technology we have nowadays, but if you’re really that scared to touch the handle, a piece of toilet paper or your shoe can aid you in flushing. Also, make sure that what you flush actually goes down. I had to flush each of the five toilets in one of my bathrooms the other day, because people apparently can’t flush after themselves. (And mind you, this bathroom is in a floor full of corporate offices. It sees the same people every day.)
Make sure you don’t leave anything on the seat. This includes toilet paper, seat covers, and your urine. Come on, if you pee on the seat, at least have the decency to wipe it up. And shame on you if you hover. You wouldn’t hover over your home toilet seat, would you? And as mentioned before, it contains far more germs than your average public toilet. If you put toilet paper on the seat, please flush it when you’re done. And though toilet seat covers are designed to go down with your excrement, this doesn’t always happen. Please make sure it gets flushed.
I don’t know how many times this needs to be stressed, or why grown women need to be reminded of this, but feminine products and paper towels do not go in the toilet! Not only do they pose a high clog risk, but they are also less biodegradable than the toilet paper and tissue seats that get flushed and can pose a major risk to the cesspool and the environment.
All in all, women are supposed to be the fairer sex, yet studies have shown that their public bathrooms are filthier than men’s. Ladies, it’s time to take a stand. Start cleaning up after yourselves. Treat a public toilet the way you would your own. Take a look at the stall when your finished; if you walked into that stall, would you use it?
Tags: dirty bathroom, dirty pigs, empire state building, flush, ladies room, maintenance, paper towels, pee on the seat, public bathrooms, public toilets, toilet paper, toilet seat covers, toilets, women's bathroom
April 6th, 2008 |
10 Comments
It does suck when people go use a public bathroom and don’t leave the toilet the way they found out. Every time I go to use one, it seems that somebody pees on the seat without wiping it. I don’t care if it was a 5 year old or an 85 year old did it. The least they can do is wipe it up.
WTF is Perfection? Whatever it is, it sounds pathetic right off the bat. Anyone who names something ‘Perfection’ has issues, let me tell you.
Oh, and here was was April Fools joke …! In screenshot form: http://i30.tinypic.com/qx0v0h.jpg
IMPRESSIVE, I KNOW.
People actually fell for it, too …! It was stellar!
Oh, fuck, and I forgot to mention: Your layout is bloody GORGEOUS, no lie. It’s truly amazing.
Lol when I applied to perfection I never heard back from them XD And yeah that’s so true … women toilets are waaaay dirty! At one of our university buildings it’s aweful to go to the toilet, it’s like .. how you describe XD Anyway goodluck with the job and yeahhh let’s keep it clean ladies !!! xoxo
I don’t really like public bathrooms… but I don’t blame my dislike for them on the people who work there, but for the people who use them. Its the users fault that it makes people skeptical of using them. Not cleaning the seat, littering or not flushing the toilet is just plain inconsiderate. Yuck.
If you’re over it, why’d you make another post about it?
I’d hate to see the private toilets of the people who don’t flush in public toilets.
Ick!
Kelsie – It’s true. A lot of people have the misconception that public toilets are infested (even if they look clean) and therefore refuse to touch anything, and that results in the mess. But it doesn’t take that much touching to wipe your own pee off the seat, or to make sure that your used paper towel goes IN the garbage instead of next to it.
Astrid – Uh, as an announcement? Because apparently, people think that a post I wrote two weeks ago is still newsworthy.
Thanks for the publicity!
I shudder at the thought of women using their foot to flush a toilet, because I often use my hand.
Why is it so hard to just use your hand? Or your hand covered in wadded TP?
And the hovering thing – I’m all for a good hover if there isn’t a seat cover available, but I ALWAYS wipe up any excess!
Women are pretty gung-ho on bashing mens bathrooms, which, from my experience, are also pretty foul (but that’s more because the urine is more freely distributed and the aroma gets everywhere!), but their own bathrooms are pretty damn rank.
I hope you do get paid a decent amount of money to put up with this day after day.
And about germs – true, a home bathroom may have more, but at least they’re familiar germs, lol.
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