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toilet etiquette

14 replies

PookieDo · 19/04/2017 10:58

Communal office toilets.

If you accidentally block a toilet yourself, or realise a toilet is blocked and you have no access to cleaning equipment or toilet unblocking equipment do you:

A. Leave it and the cleaner will sort it out
B. Attempt to unblock it yourself

I honestly am intrigued by this. We have a blocked toilet frequently and people just seem to leave it

OP posts:

NoSherryForMe · 19/04/2017 11:03

If there's no cleaning equipment or anything to plunge it with, how are you supposed to try and unblock it?

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PookieDo · 19/04/2017 11:04

I agree! It's like a catch 22

OP posts:

honeysucklejasmine · 19/04/2017 11:04

Can't you report it to site manager?

Sirzy · 19/04/2017 11:05

I would report it. If there is nothing to use to clear it what else are you meant to do?

NoSherryForMe · 19/04/2017 11:05

If there's an office manager, I'd probably mention it to him or her.

OOAOML · 19/04/2017 11:08

We don't have cleaning equipment in the toilets, but we can phone and report issues, and they are dealt with. That's quite a large organisation, so they have maintenance staff on-site.

MsVestibule · 19/04/2017 11:23

Neither A or B! How would either you or the cleaner unblock a toilet without the proper equipment?

MusicToMyEars800 · 19/04/2017 11:34

I am a cleaner, and people that work in the building I clean use the toilet brush to unblock the toilet, then put it back into the holder

ofshoes · 19/04/2017 11:36

I would mention it to the office manager but I'd make out that it was the work of some other dirty clart

Crapuccino · 19/04/2017 11:45

I stick a note on the cubicle door and then let facilities know. (We have a haunted/bogey/rebellious toilet that blocks all the damned time even if you do nothing more than have a wee. Drives me fucking nuts. I wouldn't even try to fix it for fear of making the situation worse.)

It's the not-alerting-the-next-potential-victim that bugs me more than anything. Toilets break, just like anything. The least you can do is not leave some poor person to face that spine-chilling horror of flushing and then seeing the bowl filling, and filling, and filling, and OH MY GOD IT'S OVERFLOWING.

nothercupoftea · 19/04/2017 12:13

report it and ideally leave a note on the door

basically leave to problem for someone else to deal with

harderandharder2breathe · 19/04/2017 12:22

Having dealt with much toilet dramas at summer camp, my experience is it's entirely divided by sex. The women would come to tell us as soon as a toilet wasn't flushing, by the time they'd walked across the field to tell us and we'd walked across to check it out the cistern had filled properly and it flushed and all was fine. If there was s problem we closed that toilet or the block and nobody went near it til it was fixed. The men did not see fit to tell us anything was wrong and would literally shit on top of shit on top of shit

TheViceOfReason · 19/04/2017 12:52

i had the opposite experience to harderandharder - i worked at a national trust property years ago and the womens toilets were always by far the more disgusting.

Overflowing bowls of shit and sanitary items - lock a door and put up an out of order sign and it would still get used. The mens toilets were not once in the same state.

Allthewaves · 19/04/2017 12:55

Put sign on door saying 'toilet blocked - do not use'

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