My coworkers are disgusting- what are yours?

D_squareG
D_squareG Posts: 361 Member
edited November 23 in Chit-Chat
There are women in my company that stand on the toilet seat, leaving shoe prints. I'm not sure why they would do his but it is irritating to me!

What are the things your coworkers do that are weird?
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  • jchite84
    jchite84 Posts: 467 Member
    Co worker pet peeve: Cutting donuts in half and leaving the other half. Nobody wants something that you rubbed your filthy f&*#!$#ing hands all over and is now stale. Eat the whole thing or none at all....man, I just felt my blood pressure go up.
  • SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage
    SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage Posts: 2,668 Member
    Oh this is going to be a good thread. Office workers are weird.
    We had a big thing a couple weeks ago about the women complaining about the smell in the bathroom when someone did #2. I finally had enough of the whining so I installed an air freshener. They complained about the smell of that too. So I just shrugged and told them "everyone poops".
    Seriously. Complaining about someone pooping in a bathroom.
  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,088 Member
    I can't even imagine why a woman would stand on top of a toilet seat. That's pretty crazy.

    My co workers are fine , I really do like each of them and enjoy their company. ( I work at a high end jeweler) believe it or not, I have no complaints about them .
  • SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage
    SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage Posts: 2,668 Member
    thorsmom01 wrote: »
    I can't even imagine why a woman would stand on top of a toilet seat. That's pretty crazy.

    My co workers are fine , I really do like each of them and enjoy their company. ( I work at a high end jeweler) believe it or not, I have no complaints about them .

    It's an Asian thing. I believe.
  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,088 Member
    I have an idea op , can you get baby oil and splash it on the tops of the toilet seats so when they step on them , they will slip! Lmao
  • D_squareG
    D_squareG Posts: 361 Member
    That would be interesting
  • kami3006
    kami3006 Posts: 4,979 Member
    Some women were taught to put one foot up on the toilet seat to insert a tampon. I wonder if that's what the prints are from?
  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,088 Member
    SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage wrote: »
    thorsmom01 wrote: »
    I can't even imagine why a woman would stand on top of a toilet seat. That's pretty crazy.

    My co workers are fine , I really do like each of them and enjoy their company. ( I work at a high end jeweler) believe it or not, I have no complaints about them .

    It's an Asian thing. I believe.

    I'm around Asians and have not noticed any foot prints on toilet seats :smiley:
  • dinagurl59
    dinagurl59 Posts: 41 Member
    How do you know they are standing on the seats?
  • D_squareG
    D_squareG Posts: 361 Member
    They leave shoe prints.
  • SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage
    SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage Posts: 2,668 Member
    Ever curious, I Googled:
    "In Chinese culture, toilets like Western ones (the sit-down kind) are fairly new. The squat toilet was the standard for many, many years and still are the norm in public facilities. Only modern apartments that were constructed in the last twenty years (or so) were equipped with the sit-down thrones. This is because they were (and still are) considered to be much less sanitary than the squatters. With your body actually touching the commode, diseases are more easily transmitted and so Chinese people, even now, consider the squat toilets to be the more hygienic choice when needing to eliminate publicly.

    When out in the world of Beijing even nowadays, it’s not uncommon to see sit-down toilets with shoeprints on their seats. That’s because people use them as squatters. They stand up on them and then squat down to use them as if they’re just elevated squat toilets. So, sitting down on a sit-down toilet in Beijing is something that anyone should only do at their own risk. Why make contact with what the sole of a shoe has already contacted in a big, over-populated city?"

    Reading rainbow time! :smile:
  • ponycyndi
    ponycyndi Posts: 858 Member
    I thought I WAS the disgusting coworker, but I've never stood on a toilet seat.
  • SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage
    SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage Posts: 2,668 Member
    ponycyndi wrote: »
    I thought I WAS the disgusting coworker, but I've never stood on a toilet seat.
    Confession time! What do you do that makes you the disgusting coworker?
  • D_squareG
    D_squareG Posts: 361 Member
    Well, that explains it!
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  • oocdc2
    oocdc2 Posts: 1,361 Member
    edited September 2015
    D_squareG wrote: »
    There are women in my company that stand on the toilet seat, leaving shoe prints. I'm not sure why they would do his but it is irritating to me!
    That's a new one! I'll have to pay more attention in public restrooms from now on...
  • ald783
    ald783 Posts: 688 Member
    I still don't understand why you'd have to stand on top of the toilet to squat over it.
  • paddles34
    paddles34 Posts: 789 Member
    Mine are beautiful and stunning
  • D_squareG
    D_squareG Posts: 361 Member
    paddles34 wrote: »
    Mine are beautiful and stunning

    Your coworkers?
  • Yogi_warrior
    Yogi_warrior Posts: 5,464 Member
    SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage wrote: »
    thorsmom01 wrote: »
    I can't even imagine why a woman would stand on top of a toilet seat. That's pretty crazy.

    My co workers are fine , I really do like each of them and enjoy their company. ( I work at a high end jeweler) believe it or not, I have no complaints about them .

    It's an Asian thing. I believe.

    Stereo type and racist to say the least.
  • for_ever_young66
    for_ever_young66 Posts: 2,877 Member
    Not washing their hands when they leave the toilet.....................and these are the first ones screaming. "Hey, let's do a potluck!!!!"
  • SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage
    SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage Posts: 2,668 Member
    leonidas_and_spartacus wrote: »
    SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage wrote: »
    thorsmom01 wrote: »
    I can't even imagine why a woman would stand on top of a toilet seat. That's pretty crazy.

    My co workers are fine , I really do like each of them and enjoy their company. ( I work at a high end jeweler) believe it or not, I have no complaints about them .

    It's an Asian thing. I believe.

    Stereo type and racist to say the least.
    Uh really? How do you figure?
    See above for the explanation on this.

  • adamcourt
    adamcourt Posts: 61 Member
    working alone at night.
  • OneHundredToLose
    OneHundredToLose Posts: 8,523 Member
    Luckily the people I work with are all pretty tolerable. My work is split into several departments, and I'm the head of mine, but we're all very friendly. It's informal - we all treat each other with respect and do what we can to get the job done.
  • jodybo2
    jodybo2 Posts: 116 Member
    My co-workers made a rule that we couldn't eat anything at our desk that has an odor or requires a fork. The same one that came up with this rule is eating popcorn at her desk every day now. :confused:
  • jodybo2
    jodybo2 Posts: 116 Member
    Another rule they came up with is to make sure you don't leave skid marks in the toilet and spray freshener in the bowl before you poop. :relieved:
  • OneHundredToLose
    OneHundredToLose Posts: 8,523 Member
    Your office seems like hell, lol. Trying to make rules about how someone poops?
  • SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage
    SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage Posts: 2,668 Member
    jodybo2 wrote: »
    Another rule they came up with is to make sure you don't leave skid marks in the toilet and spray freshener in the bowl before you poop. :relieved:
    :lol: what is it about poop and office workers?

  • kami3006
    kami3006 Posts: 4,979 Member
    I work with animals as a surgical tech, so anything disgusting that happens with employees is completely superceded by ick produced by the animals.

    But it's totally worth the ick to get to work with the critters!
  • jodybo2
    jodybo2 Posts: 116 Member
    It is hell! I'm here to do my job, not be micromanaged on my bathroom habits. Jeez! Luckily my interview at another place went well today and maybe I won't have to be here much longer!
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