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dirty buggers in toilets

114 replies

sameoldtat · 02/02/2018 11:54

Is it too much to ask that if you go to the toilet (outpatients this morning) that the person before you does not leave shit splattered all over the toilet bowl? I tried three toilets this morning before I found one that looked clean enough to use. I mean why do it ?. Is it too much to ask for people to clean up after themselves for heaven's sake?. It only takes a quick wipe with the toilet paper and then a good handwash. No sodding wonder Nova Virus is rampant. I feel sorry for the cleaners because there is now enough money in the world that would warrant that cleanup operation never mind the pittage they earn. And these are 'ladies' toilets.

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chocorabbit · 02/02/2018 22:13

I guess it's for avoidance of cross-contamination?

BarbarianMum · 02/02/2018 22:32

To avoid cross-contamination, what do ypu mean? Of what with what? Confused

Christmastits · 02/02/2018 22:37

@BarbarianMum maybe contaminate your poo with other people's poo? Grin

WhatWouldLeslieKnopeDo · 02/02/2018 22:50

People would probably use them inappropriately, not rinse them, drip dirty water everywhere etc. There's no cleaning products in public loos either so they would get filthy. The disgusting wall-smearers might use them as paintbrushes. Weird cheapskates might nick them. Humans as a whole are basically disgusting.

I feel terribly sorry for cleaners too. I just can't imagine ever leaving any sort of mess for anyone else, either another toilet user or cleaner to deal with. It's just mind-bogglingly inconsiderate and selfish.

TheBrilliantMistake · 02/02/2018 22:56

puts down his Cadbury's chocolate mousse

Suddenly gone off it for some reason.

Snowysky20009 · 02/02/2018 22:57

I can't believe people live like such pigs. My ds14 came and told me a few weeks ago that he was 'sorry he'd used the last of the wipes in the bathroom to clean the toilet'.
He had a tummy bug, but even at his age he cleaned his mess up after himself.

ciele · 02/02/2018 23:08

When teaching a kid came back into class and told me that someone had shat in the sinks!

TheBrilliantMistake · 02/02/2018 23:15

I have a friend who (many years ago) used to deliver TV and install them into people's houses (back when people actually rented a TV and video).

Anyway, I kid you not, he would say that some homes would literally have human faeces in the corner of the living room.
You might be forgiven for thinking that's far fetched, but a midwife friend has confirmed similar stories of it in the bath.

The lives people live... and weirdly, they must be people you see in the pub, or at work etc.

LittleCandle · 02/02/2018 23:21

Being in retail, you do find horrific things in the changing rooms. Thankfully, I haven't had anything too vile and the one time we found a puddle of pee on the velvet (really!) carpet, we got the manager to clean up, because none of us were paid enough to do that! We had to dispose of the dress that had been thrown into over the puddle to hide it.

I now work in a hospital (in retail) and find that the loos can be rank towards the end of the 2 hour period between cleans. Nothing too vile, apart from the overflowing toilet the other week, but part of the problem is not enough toilets for a large amount of people. Beside the restaurant, there are 2 ladies cubicles squeezed into the tiniest space you can imagine! Having seen the people wandering around and likely using the loos, some of them are poor creatures indeed and really should not be allowed out on their own.

exWifebeginsat40 · 02/02/2018 23:38

i used to work for a cruise company. you wouldn’t believe what rich old people get up to when someone else is cleaning up.

but. toilet brushes are shitcaked nightmares fermenting in a little pool of cold horror. they give me the gips, and i went to school with kids that swam in the foot bath at the leisure centre.

scaredtomentionit · 02/02/2018 23:58

There's a lot to be said for ensuite bathrooms in hospital. When I'm admitted usually they get me to pee in pans and get scanned before and after for residual volumes, I remember once having about 6 pans needing weighed in communal toilet plus 2 or 3 of vomit. Nurses too busy to measure them - too many ill patients and not enough staff. Felt awful for other patients (loo shared between 6). They gave me a marker pen for name and time on each pan. Awful. An ensuite would have been so much easier , nicer and more private.

MsHopey · 03/02/2018 06:11

Loving the people saying it would be too germy to clean their own shit off toilets.
I bet it's also "Well, aren't cleaners paid to get wrist deep in shit anyways?" Type of attitude.
If you were ever the poor cleaner to have to deal with it on a daily basis, I bet you'd think twice about leaving it for some poor unknown sucker.

MsHopey · 03/02/2018 06:14

And agree toilet brushes probably shouldn't be in public toilets.
With the masterpieces I've seen on walls with people using their bare hands to paint the shit, I wouldn't want to see what they are capable of with a brush!!!

Argeles · 03/02/2018 06:30

I’ve definitely noticed that the state of toilets has deteriorated drastically over the last 15 or so years, certainly in Central, West and East London anyway.

The toilets I’ve been to in the South/South Eastern suburbs and in North London don’t seem too bad.

In the last 15 years or so, I’ve also noticed so many signs being placed on the backs of cubicle doors, and in the communal areas of toilets, telling people how to use the toilet, sink and sanitary bin. Either people can’t read these signs, or they’re too fucking arrogant and disgusting to care.

I’m sick of going into a cubicle to find that some filthy bitch has stuck her used sanitary towel flat out on to the top of the sanitary bin.

If there’s no room in the bin, roll it up in a wrapper or tissue and put it in the bin in the communal area, or in the sanitary bin in another cubicle. Alternatively, wrap it up securely and put it in the zipped compartment of your bag and dispose of it later if no bin is available.

mehimthem · 03/02/2018 07:41

many years ago we had farm workers (shearers) working at our property & the wool handlers were to use our private house toilet - the long drop one at the shed was yukky for girls. Anyway, I was absolutely disgusted that girls I sort of knew (to stand in the local pub with & chat to) could make such a mess with toilet brushes, loo paper & poo. All over the pan, the seat & the floor & not a word to us who had to use it too. Gross. A few years ago too I worked in a University gym cleaning & quit in the end - the filth that other women could leave in the showers & loos turned my stomach.
And while I've cleaned up messes like these, I dont know that I would be keen to grab a brush or spare loo roll & start cleaning a public loo - esp without gloves or sanitiser handy.

Ellybellyboo · 03/02/2018 08:02

Some people are utterly disgusting.

I manage the facilities department at work and am responsible for the contract cleaners - their complaints would make your hair curl. Utterly revolting.

We have swipe passes to get in and out of the building and we're seriously considering putting them on the toilet doors and then inspecting the toilets hourly.

It's just vile

BarbarianMum · 03/02/2018 10:04

People are saying it's too gerny to put their bare hands down a public toilet to clean it. Presumably the cleaners get gloves/disinfectant/ a brush. And yes, Id hate to leave a toilet dirty for someone else to clean but I'm not putting my hands down there!

Gide · 03/02/2018 10:23

The phantom shitter at my job has stopped. Either he (we know who it is) has improved his diet or has started shitting at home/on a different floor instead.

I use a certain toilet at work and omg, the times I’ve cleaned the piss off the seat! It’s just disgusting!

RowenasDiadem · 03/02/2018 10:39

My MIL is a public loo hoverer. She'll piss on the toilet seat because she refuses to sit on a seat that other people have. It's only gross because of dirty cows like her pissing on something that should only touch skin!!! Take a bloody packet of sanitising wipes if you have to just don't urinate where people have to touch!

Sparklyshoes16 · 03/02/2018 10:40

My friend works in an office where they have to ask for the key from reception for the loos, then the receptionist checks the loo after, if left in a 'mess' an email is sent to that person with the boss copied in (company policy after cleaning company refused to come back) asking them to come back and clean up their mess...the disgustingness stopped within 48 hours!

TheTurnOfTheScrew · 03/02/2018 10:44

A colleague found a whole turd on the floor in the ladies work, when she stood on it. It's an NHS building, and is in an area to which members of the public have absolutely no access. I am aghast that ANOTHER COLLEAGUE thinks it's ok to leave excrement ON THE FLOOR for the poor housekeeping staff.

Chocolatear · 03/02/2018 10:48

My DH works in a university. He says the staff toilets are disgusting, shit everywhere.
These are supposed to be educated people.

MothertotheLordsofmisrule · 03/02/2018 11:13

Some of these stories are Shock

And I thought the sink full of piss I found in a supermarket sink was bad enough.

MothertotheLordsofmisrule · 03/02/2018 11:14

*Supermarket toilet not supermarket sink

Chrys2017 · 03/02/2018 11:23

Really? The only places I've ever encountered anything like this are at Glastonbury Festival, and once in an aeroplane toilet (took one look and refused to go in).