To be shocked by what DD told me about her workplace?

hopefully they have proper needle disposal containers for those who are diabetic or take other injectable medications.
and yes janitorial staff or those with janitorial duties should have education on how to discard of items not properly disposed of, how to close the injectables container, how to store the container and when biohazards are picked up etc etc etc.

my son worked for a large factory bakery and the lunch room was fully stocked with pastries/bread etc so that the staff didn't need to take product.
related but not, the public toilet down the hall from my workplace office was a known meet up spot for sex.

When I was about 15 a friend of mines sister left her partner. She stayed with her parents until she was offered a flat. So we went round to help her clean and decorate and found a used needle under the sink. Luckily her DC weren't there. They were only about 2 and 4. We absolutely stripped that place to bits to make sure there was no more.

I remember someone doing this in B&M it was a woman. She wiped her arse on some baby clothes.

Our 2 local ones have closed both were taken away only after opening a bigger premises with a cafe and toilets. We also have a newish 1 about 10 miles away with a cafe toilets and drive through. In the same town there's a smaller one with a few tables and chairs but they don't have to provide toilets.

I was coming here to say exactly this.

This is reality if you work in hospitality. Not just Greggs.
The risks of disposing of needles is small anyway. You use a litter picker and put it in a sharps bin. You never touch the actual needle.

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Well, now you know how the other (lower) half live.and what they have to put up with on a day to day basis.

But thank goodness you live on the other side!

I’d encourage her to find a new job fast. I used to clean in a few hotels, never saw anything like this and I preferred cleaning the bathrooms to changing bedding.

My 17 yr old DC and friends aren’t dealing with this. They work in supermarkets with no public toilets, tutoring companies and swim teaching. DC has one friend who works in a Greggs but they are going to med school so maybe they don’t care.

They need to lock the loo and only make it available to customers who ask when buying food.

People are just disgusting.

Sorry But that’s what they are. What would you call them?

There isn't anything for the police to do, they need to lock the toilets if they don't already and make them customer use only. As long as they have been trained in safe disposal, and she isn't being expected to remove them it's out the training, there isn't anything else to be done. I've not been in the UK in a few years, but here (AUS) they have needle disposal bins in the toilets in high risk areas, and they are cleaned out by a company like sanitary bins are. Maybe something like that?

I was told by a police officer it isn't illegal to take drugs, it is to be in possession of them 🤷🏻‍♀️

What else is new, OP? This has been going on forever.

How profoundly depressing that op is considered to be naive.

A couple of PPs have mentioned putting sharps bins in the toilet.

My DP is a tradesman who has worked in the local needle exchange….and still finds used needles in the toilets. This is a place that you are allowed to dispose of needles and not get asked questions, yet still people put their needles in the toilets not the sharps boxes.

It doesn’t give me a lot of faith that the drug users in OP’s daughter’s workplace toilets would actually use the sharps box if one was provided.

How disgusting. Same thing apparantely used to happen at the job centres toilets, they got rid of them, penalising people who might genuinely want or need to use them.
Men use to meet other men in toilets for sex too, spoiling it for genuine people.
How vile, people wanting to use public toilets for these activities. Couldn't give a shit about anyone else could they?
Find someone else.

The language on this thread is abhorrent. Druggies/junkies, crack heads. These are real human people. The majority who have suffered incredible trauma which has led them down the path they are on. Very few people actively chose to wake up one day and have an addiction to drugs. Yes some addicts are arseholes but they would be arseholes either way.

Are you volunteering your children to clear up after them?

DD works in a nice jobs where they are expected to take in used needles, they get free boxes to put them in, most people rock up with them in their pockets and expect DD to take them off them.

She refuses as she doesn’t have the correct training or safety equipment.

I work in a quaint little museum and we have to occasionally pick up needles and used condoms from our grounds.

We don't need training, we just use a litter picker and put the needles straight into a sharps box.

If it's in a high crime, dodgy area then why on earth are you allowing her to work there....?!

What a load of sanctimonious rubbish. The vast majority of people who struggle day to day to feed themselves do not steal, do not inject class A drugs and leave needles with blood products on them for someone else to clean up. People like you normalise this behaviour by saying it's the real world. It's not. It might be for some, but that doesn't mean anyone who is shocked by it is some elite, entitled, middle class person disconnected from reality. There is no shame in working, paying taxes to fund all the services everyone demands and making society actually function. Then along come sneering people like you saying people who do this are all privileged and blinded to real life.

I mean I don’t think Greggs are a Good employer.. I’m not surprised what they expect staff to do. The police equally pay terrible pay and are chronically understaffed. What would you expect them to do?? Arrest the drug users and then what? There’s almost no social services or mental health services left.
Im a bit shocked you are so shocked at it all.. surely you’ve seen what has been happening politically in the UK over the last 15 years and the total lack of public services. And the erosion of employee protection. Who do you think cares about staff at Greggs on minimum wage? And drug users? Certainly not a Tory government. Come on op

Unfortunately police don't bother to turn up for minor crimes, or even mid-level crimes sometimes.

Agree about code locks, also Greggs should put a medical waste bin in the loos for the junkies to keep it contained.