Is it too much to ask that the toilet paper in the bathrooms where I work be regularly restocked?
I work at a fairly large urban university. There are upwards of 20K students who attend this school.
Across the hall from one of the rooms I teach in is the women's bathroom. It's the restroom I use most frequently when on campus because, well, it's right across the hall from my classroom. The bathroom has three regular stalls in it and one handicapped accessible stall in it.
So, Tuesday, I wandered into the bathroom only to find that 2 of the three regular stalls were out of toilet paper. Fine, at least one of them had toilet paper. (The toilet paper dispensers are the kind that hold 2 rolls so when one roll is empty, you push back the core of the empty roll to get access to the new roll). I didn't look in the handicapped accessible stall to find out if there was toilet paper there on Tuesday because I, as someone who has no physical limitations, don't like to use the handicapped acessible stall in case someone who really needs it comes into the restroom.
I go to wash my hands to find that only one of the paper towel dispensers has any paper towels in it. There are two large paper towel dispensers in the bathroom. The dispenser of anti-bacterial gel on the wall just as you walk out the door is full though. So...wait...why is that full but the toilet paper not stocked?
I don't teach on Wednesday at all, so I wasn't on campus.
On Thursday, I wander into the same bathroom to find that none of the regular stalls have toilet paper in them. A student comes out of the handicapped accessible stall and says to me, "I don't like using these since I'm not handicapped but sometimes you just have to." I nod, knowingly.
I go to wash my hands. This time, there are no paper towels in either dispenser.
Today is Friday. I decided to that if I needed to use the bathroom that would not be the one that I chose, I would simply go across the building to the other women's restroom. But out of curiosity, I went in that same bathroom across the hall from my classroom just to see. Today, there was no toilet paper in any stall and no paper towels in either dispenser.
The large trashcan in the bathroom also appears to not have been emptied since sometime Tuesday. Yet, the antibacterial gel dispenser is full again.
WTF is going on? How hard is it to replace toilet paper in a bathroom. Do the facilities management personnel here just forget this bathroom exists? It is on a side hall of the building, but still it is a well traveled hall since 12 classrooms are on that hallway.
The other women's bathroom across the building is fully stocked on toiletpaper in every stall.
Someone needs to get off their asses and do their job and take care of this restroom. If the toilet papers hasn't been restocked in a week, I am betting the restroom hasn't been cleaned in a week and that's just disgusting.
Zayda posted on Oct 27, 2006
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silverwhisper said on Oct 27, 2006....
cleanliness:it's not just for godliness anymore.
ed
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Zayda said on Oct 27, 2006....
It's incomprehensible to me that the bathroom is in this condition for a full week. And the thing is, if two of the stalls were empty of toilet paper on Tuesday, the chances are that they were empty on Monday if not damn close to empty.
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silverwhisper said on Oct 27, 2006....
i'm really glad i'm in the habit of checking before doing my business.
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Zayda said on Oct 27, 2006....
Oh, I always check before doing my business.
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secretlife said on Oct 27, 2006....
Ok, so who do you report this to? If the restrooms aren't cleaned in my office building, we have a building services phone number we can call and report it to. Does the university have someone in that type of position? -
Zayda said on Oct 27, 2006....
There is a facilities management department on campus. The problem is my university has two campuses, one about 3 miles from the other campus. On this secondary campus, there seems to be no office for facilities management/environmental services. And well, I don't carry around the phone directory for the University on my or have all the office numbers memorized.
I went yesterday and mentioned it to the people in the office of student services on this second campus, hoping they would at least know who to contact. That apprently didn't do any good.
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lioneljay said on Oct 28, 2006....
Sounds like it's time for somebody to put the phone number of the facilities management office on the wall in permanent marker: "For a good time (or at least a fresh roll of tp), call 555 358-7448."
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Zayda said on Oct 28, 2006....
You know, the more I think about this whole situation, the more it annoys the crap out of me.
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silverwhisper said on Oct 29, 2006....
[giggle] -
Zayda said on Oct 29, 2006....
[trout smacks silver and follows it up with a good OED smack]
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silverwhisper said on Oct 29, 2006....
hey, you're the one making the bad puns... :>
ed
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Zayda said on Oct 29, 2006....
And I do it with aplomb!
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lioneljay said on Oct 29, 2006....
I do it with a peach.
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Zayda said on Oct 29, 2006....
You are a strange, strange man, LJ.
:D
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silverwhisper said on Oct 29, 2006....
you two and your puns...
[sigh]
:p
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Zayda said on Oct 29, 2006....
puns are...well...they just are.
:D
and you know that j00 find us both hysterical. :P
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silverwhisper said on Oct 29, 2006....
j00 are teh sux! :p
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Zayda said on Oct 29, 2006....
teh sux!?!?
[cries]
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lioneljay said on Oct 29, 2006....
Thank you, thank you very much.
[mopes a bit that no one commented on his earlier numeric pun]
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Zayda said on Oct 29, 2006....
[pats LJ on the noggin]
Chin up, no mopping, dearest LJ.
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lioneljay said on Oct 29, 2006....
You mean that in addition to the lack of paper-products-renewal, the maintenance people don't mop the rest rooms either? ;)
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Zayda said on Oct 29, 2006....
Ahhh...dear LJ--
It pretty much looked that way.
But for you, thou shalt not mope.
ohhh...and for good measure...
[whaps LJ with the OED]
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silverwhisper said on Oct 29, 2006....
735, +3h 5|_|><!
:p
[does impression of malevolent pixie]
ed
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Zayda said on Oct 30, 2006....
Silver--I hate you....I hate you...I hate you.
;P
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Zayda said on Nov 06, 2006....
BTW, I checked on this very bathroom this past Tuesday, a week after I first encountered the conditions of it. It was still without a single roll of toilet paper in it.
So, I marched over to the other building next door to the Student Services office and asked who I needed to get in touch with regarding the bathroom. The administrative assistants in there were horrified and were on the phone immediately to Facilities Management to report that the environmental services staff were not doing their job.
I did this before my second class, so I don't actually know if the problem was taken care of before I left Tuesday. And I didn't check that bathroom on Thursday because I have decided to just avoid the bathroom.
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silverwhisper said on Nov 06, 2006....
at least you got the appropriate reaction from someone!
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Zayda said on Nov 06, 2006....
Yes, the question is...was anything actually done about it... :/
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lioneljay said on Nov 06, 2006....
There's only one way to find out, dear Z. And tomorrow is Tuesday. :D
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Zayda said on Nov 06, 2006....
Yes, tomorrow is Tuesday, but I'm a little afraid to find out if something was done about it.
[shudder]
Can you imagine if the bathroom wasn't attended to for two full weeks?
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silverwhisper said on Nov 06, 2006....
i'm so very glad i've already eaten breakfast.
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Zayda said on Nov 06, 2006....
Yeah.....me too.
I mean I realize all of higher education is under a budget crunch, especially in this state. But...ummm...yeah...toilet paper in bathrooms is kind of essential.
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silverwhisper said on Nov 06, 2006....
so which prospect makes you more uneasy: a still-untouched restroom or grading more papers? :D
ed
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