Toilet Troubles

Now, one particular thing that we hold near and dear to us when it comes to the workplace is the cleanliness of the available toilets. This has been something of a sticking point at times when nature calls and we have to, as how Ivan puts it, "Bomb Hiroshima and/or Nagasaki." Much is at stake!

See, we're not keen on squatting, although in dire times we do squat (somehow we're taken back to a memory of our primary school days and we did do a squat once and goodbye wallet. Memories of what happened after the wallet fell in was blotted out, there was no way we would have rescued it from the depths of a black hole. Thankfully, at that age there wasn't much in the wallet save the spare change from buying lunch at the canteen, and probably those cartoony personalized name cards that used to go around.

Of course, nowadays, with our IC, our credit cards, our driver's licence, money, various membership cards will mean we'll take good care our wallet does not suffer such a fate. No, we didn't list down the wallet itself as being good incentive to rescue because, unlike others, we stick to using wallets we've gotten over the years as presents first (so long as those wallets have a coin compartment - very important!).

So. During our housemanship none, none, NONE of the toilets were in acceptable conditions (it's a hospital, the public is bound to use it in all ways). You have either the smell or seats with footprints to deal with. Why are there footprints on a toilet seat??? Must you deploy from such a height?!?!?! We kept to staple hospital diet and regular bowel movements so we had no emergencies where we needed to 'go' in the hospital.

Then came Guardian. Thankfully we were working in 1 Utama, and the new wing had nice clean toilets and, failing that, we could always rush back home during our break. 'Course, we were in more than just 1 Utama over our time in Guardian and we were lucky that the Tun Perak branch had their own staff toilet.

Now...now that we work in Amcorp Mall, we must say that there is much that is lacking in terms of satisfactory toilets. The male toilets for the business towers of Amcorp on each floor that has three cubicles - two seats and one squat - and two urinals. There's the obligatory hose.

There's no toilet roll dispenser. You've to get all the toilet paper you need from the large dispenser outside by the sink before you head in. Please gauge your requirements correctly and do not go in ill-prepared. And the quality of toilet paper provided is...unfortunately, not satisfactory too. It falls apart too easily and sticks to wet surfaces, we don't want to imagine it falling apart while we are wiping.

Don't understand what we mean by falling apart? Take one of them KFC serviettes and use it to wipe your hands dry after washing. This is worse.

The state of the cubicles vary. On floors where there are less male employees, it's cleaner. Otherwise...we can probably understand the need for the cleaners to use the mop to clean the toilet seat every time they go in to clean. What we don't understand is how some people don't know how to flush once their done.

Then there's the taps - either the water pressure is miserable or, at a push, it gushes out and sprays everywhere. Wet pants time.

So we've been exploring the gent's of almost every floor on our tower, to see which one is most satisfactory. We don't use the one on our floor for a reason. See, when we flush we make sure that we open the cubicle door first (yes, we're a cubicle person). Then we flush and make our hasty exit. This turns out to be a good thing because...because....be...becuh...

Probably that's why the door had some water droplets and the floor is wet.

Instead, we now take the fire escape stairs and use the toilets one floor above for the small stuff. And either head to Fitness First Axis, the Midvalley Hotels, the Chief's place, or go home when it's otherwise.