Dealing with disgusting bathrooms at work...? (employees, companies, paid, interest)
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A topic a little off the beaten path, but this really bugs me and I need to vent.
I currently work at a manufacturing plant with about 80 employees of all different disciplines. We have three bathrooms on site (single stall and urinal per each bathroom)The bathrooms are disgusting... We have a cleaning company come three times a week, and they do a horrific job. (Really I don't see why we don't have a on-site janitor/cleaner or at least nightly cleaning. Long story short, the bathrooms are like something out of a horror story. Pee everywhere, always out of paper towels, poop remnants left in the toilet or scattered on the bowl, pee on the toilets (as they just couldn't pee in the urinal????), garbage cans overflowing, just plain nasty... I have never seen something so disgusting at any company I've worked for previously or visited. In fact, most company bathrooms I've used have always been pristine. My current job's bathroom looks like hell...
What do I do here??? Our operations manager is in charge of it and people have been complaining to him for over a year now about the state of the bathrooms. He says he will fix it but he is a pushover and really doesn't do anything about it. I'm tempted to start scrubbing the bathrooms myself! Anyone deal with disgusting work toilets? How do you handle it??!
EDIT: This is a plant with fairly professional level employees as well, think Engineers, Managers, Finance/Accounting, HR, Marketing, Analysts, etc. Just appalling to me...
This speaks to employee's behaviour and disregard for fellow employee's....Take a lot of pictures..Turn it into Management..and suggest you may feel obliged to report to public Health Authority.....That usually gets immediate response..and IF you get flak for it..Keep record of all correspondence..report it to public heath and go after management..
I agree tho..often employee's are like animals..don't give a @#$% about anyone...but Management not only Should care..but since you pointed it out..THEY CANNOT claim ignorance or NO complaints...LOL Watch how quick they respond ...In the meantime..take mental/picture notes post your advising them of the ISSUE!!
It's simply a :PUBLIC HEATH ISSUE..no more no less..It's not in their best interest to have such a complaint logged against them regardless of their size!!
This speaks to employee's behaviour and disregard for fellow employee's....Take a lot of pictures..Turn it into Management..and suggest you may feel obliged to report to public Health Authority.....That usually gets immediate response..and IF you get flak for it..Keep record of all correspondence..report it to public heath and go after management..
I agree tho..often employee's are like animals..don't give a @#$% about anyone...but Management not only Should care..but since you pointed it out..THEY CANNOT claim ignorance or NO complaints...LOL Watch how quick they respond ...In the meantime..take mental/picture notes post your advising them of the ISSUE!!
It's simply a :PUBLIC HEATH ISSUE..no more no less..It's not in their best interest to have such a complaint logged against them regardless of their size!!
Good luck
It's mostly the plant/production workers causing the mess. We are a 24 hour plant and a lot of the night shift run amuck and use the bathroom that is supposed to be reserved for office employees. (The bathroom for production workers is just ungodly... something worse than hell...) It doesn't help our bathrooms and toilets are only cleaned twice during the week (and once on weekends) and most times the cleaning company just pours cleaner in the toilet and and doesn't even scrub it!!! I actually have taken some pictures, but I'm fairly new at a company which is very old school and traditional. Not a good place place to be stepping on people's toes or doing other people's jobs... They take it the wrong way... All we can do is voice our concerns, and hope something happens, but so far no luck...
Very common problem. Where I work, it's the same situation, minus the actual crap. Mostly due to workers dumping mop buckets, and spilling greasy water along the way. Workers usually have dirty hands, which means everything they touch becomes filthy. Production workers are paid to make parts, not clean bathrooms. I wouldn't expect them to take care of the problem, because it's not their problem. It's the cleaning companies issue to take care of. It would be nice if workers took better care of things. Good luck with that.
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Originally Posted by Lyndarn
This speaks to employee's behaviour and disregard for fellow employee's....Take a lot of pictures..Turn it into Management..and suggest you may feel obliged to report to public Health Authority.....That usually gets immediate response..and IF you get flak for it..Keep record of all correspondence..report it to public heath and go after management..
I agree tho..often employee's are like animals..don't give a @#$% about anyone...but Management not only Should care..but since you pointed it out..THEY CANNOT claim ignorance or NO complaints...LOL Watch how quick they respond ...In the meantime..take mental/picture notes post your advising them of the ISSUE!!
It's simply a :PUBLIC HEATH ISSUE..no more no less..It's not in their best interest to have such a complaint logged against them regardless of their size!!
Good luck
It speaks volumes regarding how little they think of their workers. If this is a constant problem, it should be addressed up front. Employees are not animals. And if the cleaning company is doing an inadequate job, than better service should be demanded.
People do things in public bathrooms that they would never do in their own home. I've never understood it myself. You sometimes see messes that look like someone had to go out of their way to make it. Maybe it's similar to the disgusting behavior you see from people on the internet. Anonymity brings out the animal in people.
The state of some work place rest rooms speak volumes about the type of people that work there. In this situation, with so many people using the toilets, reckless and disgusting behavior piled upon reckless disgusting behavior creates this subhuman type toilet scenario.
Not only should mgmt. require daily professional cleaning, but employees themselves must be informed that they are responsible for not trashing a public toilet that they all have to use.
People are disgusting animals.
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....That usually gets immediate response..and IF you get flak for it..Keep record of all correspondence..report it to public heath and go after management..
...LOL Watch how quick they respond 
...In the meantime..take mental/picture notes post your advising them of the ISSUE!! 
