Jokes on them I don’t have a choice if I’m pooping at work or not. The poop is happening.
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I thought it was for flushability. That paper disintegrates almost instantly once it hits the water, I'm pretty sure that saves the money too by preventing clogs.
But it would make sense that it's for discouragement...
Just use more lol
Some toilet paper is shitty before it ever touches an ass. I waste as much as I can.
IMO, they failed at both goals.
Be happy if you get single-ply paper. Some places have half-ply.
Some places have recycled ply, aka re-ply.
My last job had cheap paper in the hourly employee restrooms and the comfy soft stuff in the salary areas. Why a multi-billion dollar company has to maintain a class system for it's workers I do not know but it was like that with everything.
I've been told by multiple facility administrators that the main reason is to prevent toilet paper from being stolen. The shittier the paper, the less likely it's taken
Me laughing at this.
I still drop duces at work and don't give a fuck. It's my third/fourth break of the day for me.
It could be both, but be careful not to assume malice when apathy is much more reasonable.
Any thought they put into getting you to not poop on company time will run into the issue of it taking longer when you do anyway. Much more likely, they're just looking at hard numbers.
They see a number for facility costs, they see a way to make the cost number smaller, that's as far as their interest goes. "Make cost go down" is one of those simple motivations that can be directly linked to just about any managerial decision that doesn't instead connect to "Make revenue go up."
Eh, probably not imo. Most companies are just cheap, especially if they're using those commercial dispensers designed to reduce excess use.
Most company leadership just isn't that deep. They go through the supply catalog, order whatever's cheap or whatever they've always ordered and then go about their day.
Mhm. It’s easier to get bulk garbage thin paper. When I go into the office, I have my own stash of the nicest plush TP available so my ass doesn’t bleed. I miss my bidet when I have to leave the house D:
the cheap af tp and the dispensers that lock up the oh, so precious supplies, is also to prevent theft.
Why not both?
That's why I treat it like a Chuck E. Cheese ticket machine and use about 50 tiles a wipe.
a couple clogged toilets a day costs a bit more than a charmin upgrade.
Except when you switch to the good stuff people will pull a shitload of sheets out of habit and you'll have way more clogs.
Ask me how I know.
They use one's made for large office buildings in large office buildings. It breaks down in the plumbing system. You can use the luxury ones at home because you're only flushing a few times a day and it's a generally short trip out of the house into the sewers. Office buildings see much heavier flushing and that good good might create expensive clogs in their complicated plumbing systems.
Now if we are talking small office and not a whole building then yeah your boss is just cheap.
Explain high rise apartments/condos.
OP wants you to believe Trump uses single ply in Trump Tower.
depends.
I suggest the infrastructure. A high rise apartment block will have much better plumbing and capacity as it is designed to handle every apartment having at least one bathroom and toilet. And realistic expectations would be many of those are in use at the same time as people get ready around the same time in the morning for work.
An office block has to fit minimum requirements so that is enough toilets per floor to meet regulations and unlikely many or any showers / baths. And not every bathroom is going to be in use at the same time - there will peak times of course but not every employee on the toilet at the same time.
When building an office block they're not going to have anywhere near the same infrastructure as an apartment block. It's one of the reasons it's expensive to convert an office block to apartments.
Best case is probably to design as if all objects of interest do a thing (e.g. all toilets, faucets, etc. flushed at once)
The only real solution is to just poop more. Keep wiping. Clog those johns. Make them pay to fix the busted pipes from our collectively massive BMs.
I use that stuff at home because we have old pipes and a bidet. Only need the TP to dry off anyway.
I haven't worked anywhere that does this since about 1995.
I used to work field service. I would drive all around and fix machines. If i used the customers restroom, and they had single ply TP, or the auto-magic paper towel dispensor spit out 6 inches, i knew that company was a bad place to work.
I've worked for very large organizations (30k+ employees) that didn't use crappy paper.
All depends on the company.
One place I worked for I asked about this and they said it was because thicker toilet paper was more likely to clog the plumbing
No clue if that’s true. I use a bidet with a built in dryer bc I’m a baller
I mean it's true, in the same sense that in some countries you don't flush the toilet paper as it will cause plumbing issues. It's all about design of the plumbing at that point, and in places where you flush toilet paper it shouldn't be that big of a concern unless they skimped on the plumbing.
Also as my grandma taught me, there is such a thing as a courtesy flush before ya wipe.
Seems like a hanlons razor kind of thing
I never watched Battlestar Galactica.
Lol, did you google that wrong and get the BSG episode titled "Razor" ?
Maybe this also ..
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