re: How do you deal with employees destroying bathrooms?

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I had the cleaning crew stop cleaning their bathroom and made the employees responsible for cleaning it.

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Now we are talking. This is an idea that makes sense. You can't install cameras because of privacy rules. Another option to assign someone to inspect stalls after folks come out to ID the perp, but that is added cost.

I actually have a pretty awesome employer. We are one of the fastest 100 growing companies in the country over the last 3 years. Just did a million-dollar renovation and the business continues to grow. Fun place to work and the atmosphere is never threatening. Turnover has slowed to a trickle anymore and we are hiring more professionals than production. We have a pretty good core of employees and we generally promote within.

I have been here 4 years and never have we seen anything like this. Just out of nowhere this started over the last couple of weeks. So I have to imagine that it is only 1 or 2 people that are behaving like fricking animals. Maybe a new meth habit, who knows. But when it comes to bathrooms, privacy is huge and you are left guessing what to do. Bizarre.

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My office is in a complex with probably 40 people. We only have 3 toilet stalls all in one bathroom. Men were shitting all over the seat and never cleaning the toilet, even though there is a brush next to each toilet.

We put up a sign saying if you shite, clean up after yourself you lazy bum. Now the toilet is always clean. Some people just need to be shamed.

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Similar happened at my last company. Piss and shite everywhere, and toilets were overflowing regularly one summer.

The CEO eventually sent a company-wide email that said we had to sign-out and sign-in bathroom passes with the corporate greeter like children since we couldn't act like adults. He added that if anyone got busted leaving a mess in a stall again, he would fire them himself.

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Seems there would be an underlying culture problem

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I worked in a plant near Houston for a number of years and some knucklehead started shitting in the urinals a couple of times each week. Site never found a pattern for the day or which urinal was used.

Walk in to take a piss and you were greeted with a long brown snake curled up on top of the piss cake.

Toilets were open, stocked, and clean - this MF just preferred to shite in the urinal… or maybe to carry the turd over to the urinal - either way, still nasty.

When I left they were still trying to figure out who it was. Plant manager would try and sneak in multiple times each day to catch someone in the act. Offered up a $200 gift card to whomever ratted the guy out.

Offer and extended lunch to anyone who turns in whoever does this.
Let them know they won't face that employee again, because they will be fired!

Gustavo Fring would probably just kill them but he hires A+ talent.

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No idea. It starts in grade school because our school bathrooms are fricking heinous. Thing is, most students aren’t like this.

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That’s why you make the big bucks, Belding.

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Toilets were open, stocked, and clean - this MF just preferred to shite in the urinal… or maybe to carry the turd over to the urinal

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Make them check out a key. After the key is returned do an inspection before the next person enters.

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I would modify slightly to (i) make them sign for the key and (ii) that when the employee returns the key, they must report any problems with the facilities. This way, if someone complains, you know who used the facilities prior to them.

Probably a regular on r/antiwork.

Some parts of the world just have a hole in the ground they use, like parts of Japan and India.


Andre The Giant used to be unable to fit onto the toilets they did have over in Japan, as the people there tend to be tiny, so he improvised. He would just shite in the tub instead.