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This is really an idealized view of how office workers view restrooms. BFC I worked in a 5 story office building with 6 bathrooms per floor. Nobody felt ownersh
by greedo 5y ago
This is really an idealized view of how office workers view restrooms. BFC I worked in a 5 story office building with 6 bathrooms per floor. Nobody felt ownership of the restrooms, nor treated them particularly well. Some stayed clean (largely because they were either relatively unused) and some were dirty. The idea that we wouldn't allow a vendor or repairman to use them (since in your view they didn't have ownership and would thus soil the restroom) would never enter our minds.
- jasode 5y ago>This is really an idealized view of how office workers view restrooms. It's not idealized. I linked a video of a business owner and his office workers cleaning their own company bathrooms. The owner of that company includes himself in the rotation of employees to clean the bathrooms. I can't discount your anecdote about your particular coworkers because your personal experience is what it is. I'm describing population tendencies and not absolutes. In my experience, office workers who are not transients do tend to take better care of their shared bathrooms. The office employees may not be as fastidious as the workers in that Youtube video but they usually don't let it degrade to the level of nasty public restrooms on highways.
- bradknowles 5y agoIn the larger companies, you do have janitorial staff that actually does most of the cleaning and other upkeep, but the employees still don’t want to embarrass themselves in front of their co-workers. If the janitorial staff doesn’t respond quickly enough, then the situation can rapidly deteriorate. I was always quick to call them if I spotted anything amiss, and I made sure to always thank them if I saw them in person. But maybe that’s just me.