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Old 01-29-2013, 02:59 PM
 
Location: Johns Island
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Otherwise, I worked with someone who suddenly disappeared off the customer floor during a busy event. And he wouldn't apologize for making more stress and work for me, but insisted that when it was time to "go" there was no way he could put it off.
I don't blame him. You've heard the phrase "When you gott go, you gotta go." Would you rather he stood there talking to potential clients while his stomach is cramping, and he's sweating, trying to hold it in?
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Old 01-29-2013, 04:34 PM
miu
 
Location: MA/NH
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I don't blame him. You've heard the phrase "When you gott go, you gotta go." Would you rather he stood there talking to potential clients while his stomach is cramping, and he's sweating, trying to hold it in?
No. From the way he said it to me, he doesn't believe in trying to control his bowel movement schedule. There was no medical crisis, he just didn't feel like waiting or making himself go ten minutes earlier. Plus knowing the event schedule, he also made no effort at all to warn me that he needed to leave the floor. And in all the years I've worked, l have managed without any problem to go to the bathroom either before or after when I'm absolutely needed on the floor with the customer.

Anyway, he's pulled other nonsense like this. So I had to tell management that I don't want to work with him again. Another worker can put up with bad work ethic instead.

And btw he is studying to become an elevator maintenance mechanic... and I'd never want to be riding on any elevator he's worked on.
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Old 01-29-2013, 06:23 PM
 
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In case this is some sort of veiled commentary on that station and its surrounding community, take a trip to Central Square or Harvard Square on the Red Line late at night on any weekend. You'll see, smell, and have to dodge plenty of aftermaths of young White adults' over-imbibing. Watch your step on the sidewalks too.
White adults? I sense a bit of "reverse" racism retaliation. --There are restrooms in these locations.
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Old 01-29-2013, 09:00 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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This is an awesome thread

One thing to be grateful for: the MBTA doesn't run 24/7.

Back when I used to work at O'Hare Airport, I would sometimes leave work at 1-2am (damn international flights). The blue line, which goes to O'Hare runs 24/7 and that late at night is usually "home" to all sorts of homeless bums who just ride the rails almost indefinitely. I don't have enough fingers to count the number of times I've seen a bum pee/poop on the train or have walked into a train car to pure, utter foulness. I was actually on the train once in a half full car and a homeless woman got on, dropped her pants, and had explosive diarrhea right there on the train . Cops were called and I'm sure that car was fully quarantined and bleached down-at least I hope it was.

Another fun story, this time on the red line (also 24/7): Used to live a bit north of Wrigley Field, which is home to a lot of bars. A bunch of idiot, drunken frat boys got on the train and began goofing off by peeing out the door between the cars. One guy thought it would be a "great' idea to try to take a dump when the doors opened up at the next station, I guess so that the poop would fall down the gap or something. Long story short, he was a bit premature and didn't quite make it. To think that these guys were likely college students/grads...

I can only imagine the horror stories that take place at NYC stations.

As a side note, I don't care how bad I need to go, I would NEVER use a bathroom at a T stop. IMHO, that's a step below a gas station toilet off of the highway. I don't know if it's just because I'm rather anal (no pun intended ) about these thing or if this is something many women do, but I make note of all the public restrooms I'd be okay with using in case there's an emergency.
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Old 01-30-2013, 02:15 AM
 
Location: south central
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"Really, one reason for this problem is the lack of restrooms at stations."....

Now who in their right mind would want to clean something like this? How much would we have to pay for someone to clean a restroom at the T? I'd say maybe about $1000/hr for regular time...double during the night shifts. Triple on weekends and in certain stations. Seriously, would you take a job being a janitor for a restroom at the T?
Hey, somebody has to clean the bathrooms at South Station
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Old 01-30-2013, 02:22 AM
 
Location: south central
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Took the Red Line from Ashmont to Park St. every day for several years, never saw anything out of the ordinary.

Just my 2 cents.
One time I was riding the red line towards Quincy Center and right after the Andrew stop this guy who had just got on, just sitting there doing nothing, not looking queasy at all, started throwing up. He didn't panic or heave, it just fell out of his mouth and all over the place. And people literally just sat there looking at each other. Then he got off at JFK and right after he got off he threw up again all over the subway platform. He was clearly drunk although it was 1 in the afternoon.
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Old 01-30-2013, 03:43 AM
 
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This may be one of the funniest threads here yet. I AM HOWLING LOL. We can only laugh at ourselves as whole. Sometimes we just need to bow to the absurdity

And Bit of Endearment, I agree with you as I am at the South Station T once a month and often need that facility LOL
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Old 01-30-2013, 08:28 AM
 
Location: stuck
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i just imagine every toilet at the stations would be completely covered in atleast urine. atleast. sort of like rest stop bathrooms. which seem to be the places that people really let it loose. ever been in a rest stop bathroom on the jersey turnpike? you could vomit just by breathing that air. its as if every person that goes into the rest stop bathroom has to take a dump.
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Old 01-30-2013, 02:30 PM
 
Location: Massachusetts
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The South Station women's bathroom is not a bathroom I would ever go into on a daily basis. One time I was in there, there was a lady using the hand dryer for her bum. Her pants were completely drenched. She looked like she was high.

FYI-I seriously love this thread.
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Old 01-30-2013, 04:09 PM
 
Location: Montreal -> CT -> MA -> Montreal -> Ottawa
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Best. Thread. EVER!
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