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> Why do you think the toilet issue you described is a problem that needs to be fixed? Because this way Google was effectively paying me loads of money to just

> Why do you think the toilet issue you described is a problem that needs to be fixed? Because this way Google was effectively paying me loads of money to just go through 7 floors of bathrooms to find an empty one when I needed to use it. It's a waste of corporate resources to use a human resource's time like this. At the end the solution for me was just using the disabled toilet, as we didn't have disabled people on the floor at all. One solution would be to just build more sitting toilets instead of the standing ones, as those ones weren't used as much. But on 1 floor there were 2 bathrooms for women and 2 for men, so yes, repurposing some would have helped.

ClumsyPilot 6y ago
Did you miss this part? "If so that sounds like a facilities growth issue and not a sex imbalance issue" To make this into a gender issue, you have to argue google can't afford toilets
- xiphias2 6y ago
  Of course it’s a growth issue, Google can’t easily afford the prime real estate with the current housing prices. Load balancing is just a temporary measure that can be done. Google tear down meeting rooms to have more space for cranking more people in the same office. Luckily I was working there in the good old days mostly.
  - ClumsyPilot 6y ago
    Are you seriously arguing that one of the largest and most profitable megacorps in the world can't afford enough toilets, so we'ce gotta take a toilet away from female employees? Profits aside, we do not consider stopping cramming people in an office, or hiring in a more agfordable location? What happened to common sence and self respect? This the literally shittiest, most submissive argument I've come across. If it weren't a civilised forum, i would've colled it bootlicking
WanderPanda 6y ago
It‘s mind boggling that one needs to explain this (especially in a community like hn). Seems like literacy in basic economic principles was replaced by feelings in many people
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ClumsyPilot 6y ago

Did you miss this part? "If so that sounds like a facilities growth issue and not a sex imbalance issue" To make this into a gender issue, you have to argue google can't afford toilets

xiphias2 6y ago
Of course it’s a growth issue, Google can’t easily afford the prime real estate with the current housing prices. Load balancing is just a temporary measure that can be done. Google tear down meeting rooms to have more space for cranking more people in the same office. Luckily I was working there in the good old days mostly.
- ClumsyPilot 6y ago
  Are you seriously arguing that one of the largest and most profitable megacorps in the world can't afford enough toilets, so we'ce gotta take a toilet away from female employees? Profits aside, we do not consider stopping cramming people in an office, or hiring in a more agfordable location? What happened to common sence and self respect? This the literally shittiest, most submissive argument I've come across. If it weren't a civilised forum, i would've colled it bootlicking

WanderPanda 6y ago

It‘s mind boggling that one needs to explain this (especially in a community like hn). Seems like literacy in basic economic principles was replaced by feelings in many people

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