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It's only racist if you start with the premise that their method is gross. But over in ME countries, I have been asked TWICE! if it is "true" that we sit ON the toilets and, even worse, wipe the poo away with paper and don't wash. They think THAT is truly disgusting.

want to kno what is gross... go into a Latino restaurant o or a place where Latinos congregate. when they do their number 2. Folks who are new to the US they don't flush the TP, they put the dirty TP in the trash can....

be glad you are not in portland...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The City of Portland did not include urinals in the remodeled Portland Building.

The city has redesigned all the bathrooms to be gender neutral-- which means urinals are not even part of the men's room.

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/urinals-banned-portland-building/283-74b0d059-0d32-465f-804a-c3f8dacebd28

Anonymous wrote:I get paid to manage a staff of truly talented people.

I am not paid to clean toilets. That's the cleaning ladies job.

I will not touch the seat so I hover. I was warned not to flush the wet wipes. I place them to the side on the floor for pickup.

In this case you should just sh*t at your desk or wear a diaper. Who needs a toilet?

Cleaning ladies are required to wipe up after you in a public toilet?!

In my workplace, the ladies would have you potty trained in a week.

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Anonymous wrote:Some Indians stand on the toilet when pooping for some reason, so that makes a mess. There was a sign in the men’s room in one place with a drawing of an exed-out drawing of a guy standing/squatting on the toilet because of the problem you mention.

Oh, you gotta be sh*tting me! are you serious?!?!

Not just Indians, but anyone traveling from a culture where "squat" toilets are common such as North Africa, the Middle East and southwest Asia . That sign placard is very common in Germany, I'm guessing because of the increase in foreign-born refugees from various places

I have lived and traveled all over Germany, as recently as last year, and have NEVER seen that sign there. Nobody in North Africa or the Middle East squats on toilets. What are you talking about?

I was last in Germany last October and yes, those signs are everywhere. At least in southern Germany. The funniest one I saw was at Neuschwanstein gift shop. The sign is on the back of every stall door in the ladies room.

+1, these signs are all over Germany. And I can confirm with absolute certainty that the position in the "don't" picture is common in the ME and it's not racist to say so. They think OUR method is gross. And the missing piece of context is that their toilets are often much, much lower to the ground, like a hole in the ground. If you doubt it, buy a ticket to the Amman airport and observe that some of the toilets are western style and in stalls right next to them are the holes.

It's only racist if you start with the premise that their method is gross. But over in ME countries, I have been asked TWICE! if it is "true" that we sit ON the toilets and, even worse, wipe the poo away with paper and don't wash. They think THAT is truly disgusting.

Anonymous wrote:I get paid to manage a staff of truly talented people.

I am not paid to clean toilets. That's the cleaning ladies job.

I will not touch the seat so I hover. I was warned not to flush the wet wipes. I place them to the side on the floor for pickup.

Do your incredible management skills at least extend to the concept of bagging up your own crap before you leave it on the floor? I'm sure you could carry some doggy doo doo bags with you along with your wipes. Then the janitor could at least easily see when the office b... er "top dog" has done its toilet business and doesn't need to accidentally get their hands covered in your excrement, and your talented staff don't need to accidentally step in your bowel waste. Or that's too much to ask?

What a degrading comment...
“That’s what janitors are for.”

PP, no that IS not what they are for but because of disgusting attitudes such as yours, that has been part of their job.

Show some respect to those who likely work 3x harder than you, yet make peanuts every week.
If you seriously have such respect for the janitor then you are just a waste of space in my mind.

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Anonymous wrote:I get paid to manage a staff of truly talented people.

I am not paid to clean toilets. That's the cleaning ladies job.

I will not touch the seat so I hover. I was warned not to flush the wet wipes. I place them to the side on the floor for pickup.

They don't have a receptacle for pads and such in the stalls?????

Those "cleaning ladies" despise you and talk about you after work.

Do you really think I care if some Guatemalan janitor gossips about me?

About the signs . . . somewhere online awhile ago there was a piece about how Westerners have messed up bowels because they sit rather than squat. There are, in fact, tons and tons of websites about this same topic, and they apparently now sell "squatting stools" so people can attain the desired position using Western bathrooms.

I've not travelled outside the US (except Canada and a tiny bit of Mexico) but I've heard about toilets in other parts of the world plenty of times. I wonder of the signs are because of toilets that have given way off the walls. . . .

For awhile, until they remodeled the bathrooms, at the office where I work there were signs posted inside all the ladies stalls admonishing users to check their "deposit" and flush again if need be. No idea if the men's room had the same signs.

Anonymous wrote:I get paid to manage a staff of truly talented people.

I am not paid to clean toilets. That's the cleaning ladies job.

I will not touch the seat so I hover. I was warned not to flush the wet wipes. I place them to the side on the floor for pickup.

They don't have a receptacle for pads and such in the stalls?????

Those "cleaning ladies" despise you and talk about you after work.

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Anonymous wrote:I will NOT sit on a public toilet seat. Under any circumstances.

I "hover". And sometimes things can get untidy. So be it.

This is why janitors exist. Use another stall.

Are you the person who leaves their used wet wipes on the floor by the toilet? If so, congratulations on still being filthy. If not, you two deserve each other.

I remember that thread, and I wondered if it was the same person.

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Anonymous wrote:Some Indians stand on the toilet when pooping for some reason, so that makes a mess. There was a sign in the men’s room in one place with a drawing of an exed-out drawing of a guy standing/squatting on the toilet because of the problem you mention.

Oh, you gotta be sh*tting me! are you serious?!?!

Not just Indians, but anyone traveling from a culture where "squat" toilets are common such as North Africa, the Middle East and southwest Asia . That sign placard is very common in Germany, I'm guessing because of the increase in foreign-born refugees from various places

I have lived and traveled all over Germany, as recently as last year, and have NEVER seen that sign there. Nobody in North Africa or the Middle East squats on toilets. What are you talking about?

I was last in Germany last October and yes, those signs are everywhere. At least in southern Germany. The funniest one I saw was at Neuschwanstein gift shop. The sign is on the back of every stall door in the ladies room.

Anonymous wrote:I get paid to manage a staff of truly talented people.

I am not paid to clean toilets. That's the cleaning ladies job.

I will not touch the seat so I hover. I was warned not to flush the wet wipes. I place them to the side on the floor for pickup.

Agreed. That is the cleaning ladies responsibility. I don’t touch the seat and or pee or poop

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Anonymous wrote:Do this at home, folks, not at work! Problem solved...

Nope. Always poop on company time. Always.

I'm in awe of people who are regular enough they can time this. I'd love to go at home, but my body just doesn't work that way. I can't "try," nothing happens. When I do have to go, it's definitely not feasible to consider holding for another 9+ hours.

I get paid to manage a staff of truly talented people.

I am not paid to clean toilets. That's the cleaning ladies job.

I will not touch the seat so I hover. I was warned not to flush the wet wipes. I place them to the side on the floor for pickup.