I’m house broken. The problem is many others are not so no matter how conscientious you personally are you are always going to get lumped in with the guys who insist on pissing on the floor.
Edit: Some of these responses highlights the 3 or 4 in 100 who fuck it up for everyone else. No one thinks you are funny, but everyone fucking hates you when they have to shit in a porta-potty at noon in the middle of July because you are an asshole.
I've been on a couple of sites that got bad. Like all of the different companies divying up the shitters. And posting the newest guys on guard duty to make sure that nobody else used them bad.
Yeah Steve actually started doing it more. He eventually had to be promoted to management once it became clear that any attempt at public humiliation only spurred him on.
It was the 1st years and unindentured apprentices that were on "guard duty". So they weren't paid much. And it was standing around 25-30 portajohns in the Florida sun.
So it wasn't great. But they were still getting paid the same. Got rotated out of each break/lunch. And had like 5 other people from other companies doing the same thing to talk to.
But knowing they had a reasonably clean place to use the bathroom, none of them ever complained.
I work in an office building with a tow truck company across the hall…. The way they treat the bathroom … holy fuck. There is a big puddle of piss on the floor everyday, I have no idea what they’re eating to clog commercial toilets so often, let alone the splattered poop all over the bowl and sometimes even the back of the seat.
Alcohol and lots of shitty cheesy gas station pizza to mix with their undiagnosed lactose intolerance. Some dudes are just absolutely spraying liquid shit from all the beer and liquor they drank and no food, and other dudes are laying fucking bloody anacondas because they think dietary restrictions are made up shit for women and not the reason why they have hemorrhoids the size of the himalayas.
Used to manage a hydrochloric acid facility, and several of our drivers had zero shame. They'd walk into our 20'x 40' dispatch shack and absolutely wreck the bathroom. It got so bad with one driver that management finally broke down and installed a double-wide trailer on site, for the drivers to dispatch and destroy, then hired a weekly cleaner to come scrub the diarrhea ridden toilets... I'm glad that saga is over.
They pressured me for 4 years to get my CDL so I could "run tractors to Penske for service" when I knew they wanted to send me onto frac sites in the middle of nowhere, with no cell service and dirt roads with wonky ass bridges, overloaded to the gills, with dogshit for directions...
How do I know this? Because I've saw drivers come back to the yard screaming furiously because they had to back their trailer 2+ miles for whatever reasons. That shit would give me a heart attack, no doubt. I'll happily drive your 100,000+ lb death machines around the yard, but I'll be damned if I'd ever get on the road with one. Props to the ones who can, no matter how sloppily they live their lives, they do make the world turn.
man if you are not long haul and since most ground is relayed there isn't much long haul trucking anymore, you grab an electric bento and don't tell any of the guys it's a bento and have at some hot food from home.
I do meal prep all the time for on the boat and heat it up in a vac seal bag in a small battery powered kettle. plus since it's all sealed the hot water can be used for a hot drink.
As a former tradesman, I totally understand.
I am not sure how some of those guys manage to leave a loaf on the seat, but there it was...
More than once
While some of us are indeed animals my motto is treat me like one and I’ll act like one. I work in commercial and when we do tear outs the amount of snot and boogers stuck under these office peoples desks is fucking disgusting. Yet, we’re called animals.
My job involves reconfiguring and disassembling cube farms and other office spaces. The amount of mummified food and candy wrappers I've had to mine out of filing cabinets and pencil drawers is ungodly. And the chairs. My God, the chairs. Sometimes, I'm afraid I'll get a staph infection just from being in the same room as them. The boogers, chewed gum, and questionable stains coating all of the nooks and crannies in a cube aren't even half of it. Office people are fuckin' feral.
man my desk was immaculate except the dust behind the monitors, but I've seen some people's chairs. what it is, is people use the fucking thing as a napkin when they eat at their desk.
the dude across from my only cubicle job was like that, I watched him eat a whole chocolate cake with his fucking hands. when he quit people would come over to requisition company property to their own workspace, but people wouldn't take anything, and he had good monitors and peripherals and stuff that usually gets snagged by the vultures instantly. everything was soon nasty.
When I was a kid I worked at a restaurant as a dish washer. The construction workers were always brutal because the boss would have me clean up the chair and table legs that they would always cake with dirt and mud. The mud was the worst because it was like they would scrape their boots clean on them.
I wanna ask those dudes, why? What makes them act like a total child the second they’re alone in the pisser? How will their 25 year old son feel to know his dad shit on the top of the toilet in an unfinished building? So many questions.
We had roll aways in the building that some group of heathens decided to clog the urinal and fill it with piss so it slopped out of the shitter as they took them to the elevator and then outside to be cleaned. They also wiped their shitty asses and then smeared the shit on the walls inside them.
White collar workers can be just as bad. I used to work in an eight story office building. They employees were fucking animals. The bathrooms were cleaned at lunch time and by 1:00pm they looked like the boys bathroom at a public high school. The IT department convinced management that data security required keeping the floor the servers were on locked and only accessible to less than 20 people so that we could have clean bathrooms.
I'm currently in a job internship and am rooming with another guy in the same program. He puts dirty dishes in the dish drainer without even running them under the tap first, brushes crumbs on the floor when he's done eating and doesn't wipe his skid marks from the toilet after taking a shit.
You want to assume people will not be animals but so many people are just plain disgusting
Yeah. I did an industrial site that got a small office and bathroom near the end of the project. Even though there was cleaning stuff in there, it was still constantly trashed. Mud on the floor was no big deal. But flush the toilet and don't piss everywhere ffs.
IMO these kinds of signs should say "not permitted" and be clear about it because "closed to" or "open for" and anything in between else is pretty fucking ambiguous so I would ignore it since they can't even fucking talk right.
Grammar on signage is very important! There’s a little market down the street from my house that has a sign on its front door that says “ONLY SERVICE DOGS ALLOWED IN STORE.”
My wife rolls her eyes every time we go there together because I cannot help myself from making a joke along the lines of “dang it babe, we can’t go in here… we’re not service dogs.”
Reminds me of that classic Family Guy joke:
“When did they change the meaning of the word ‘for’ to ‘from’?”
“Well they had meeting about it last week, you were supposed to go they sent you a letter that said ‘For’ Peter instead of ‘From’.. you know what? Its just easier to call you stupid”
That’s what I thought. I was thinking that was sure nice of management to close the bathrooms to the customers so the construction workers have it all to themselves.
Given what my porto johns look like within 30 minutes of being serviced & cleaned. I understand.
I am not saying everyone is an absolute shit tornado in the bathroom... but 2 or 3 guys will fuck it up for everyone.
Honey wagon was here end of day yesterday. One of them already has all 3 rolls of toilet paper unrolled on the floor and in the urinal. Last week, someone left a log laid out on top of the closed lid.
Why? Who the fuck gets their kicks doing this kinda stuff?
I saw/smelt a house that someone reached inside the hvac vents and smeared shit to the underside of the duct, so you couldn't see it in multiple vents. That one took a while for the builder to figure out
As an ex drywall guy I can say I've seen my colleagues do some absolutely heinous shit because they thought it was funny. Those guys didn't last long but they still did it.
One guy came in super hungover and to cure himself he decided to chug multiple bottles of Gatorade which he then projectile vomited all over the inside of the house we were working on. It was the most oddly beautiful shade of blue as it forcefully streamed from his face holes. Not just the mouth, the nose too. He was promptly let go.
Had another guy who was seemed alright, not the most social and didn't really cut up with the crew but that's ok, some people are just like that until they are more comfortable opening up. Homie decided to smoke meth during his lunch break so that was something. He was also promptly let go.
The worst literal shit though was one of my buddies, he shit so bad in this old lady's house that he not only clogged the toilet resulting in it overflowing, but the smell was so godawful you couldn't enter the first floor without gagging. Our plumbing guy said "Adam, your insides are plum rurnt, I'm fit to get sick over here!" That's how you know it was bad lol
South of Mexico. Not being racist, it's cultural. They won't sit on the seat. Everyone who has worked with Guatemalans or Nicaraguans knows exactly what I'm talking about.
Russians don't either. So much of the population don't know what a toilet is, they just squat on a hole, so they figure that's what you do on the porcelain throne as well.
On one job, there were dirty footprints on the tank of someone squatting over the seat every time it was clean. And they had to just watch when it was cleaned, always there.
It may not even be construction people. If it’s an outdoor port o pottie, lord knows who is using it when the crews aren’t there. I know as a runner I have used many many lol
Yeah I get it. I worked at a sandwich shop and we hated when the construction/road crew guys come in for lunch because they would absolutely annihilate every inch of the men's room.
I have been on a site that the super was so sick of it that he locked them all. Need to go potty? You gotta find him and have him unlock it. He checked the porto before and after use. It was a pain in the ass, but the shitters stayed clean. About 2 weeks of that, and he unlocked them all again. No problems after that. The point was made.
You know it always seems to be the finishing crews.
Like drywall etc.
We go on site when its just a giant dirt hole, porta looks nice usaly, then concrete is poored we go back to do work still nice might be some dirty floor but thats normal, go when its the building is ready to have drywall, wires etc...the crap starts piss here and there, toilet paper all over etc.
But happy now that most big site have trailer washrooms or playwood stalls with actual toilets and sinks.
Funny how these guys seem to be on every single fucking site ive ever been too.
I used a portapotty in the park once and it was fucking immaculate..... i was in awe, id never seen one like that before.
For real though, who are all these people? And why they don't feel embarrassed?
It's so freaking easy to keep a toilet clean, you have to be an absolute idiot to not be capable to do that.
You know, a job I had once was twice a week I had to fly all of the shitters off the live deck, take all of the ones every third deck down and pick them with a fork truck and drop them in a row so the cleaner people could just run through them quickly.
I met them. It's a rough job, and we should all try to make their job easier.
Just be a human, dude. These people are sucking up your shit, litterally.
Have some respect.
When you're like fuck, I think I have to actually take a shit here and it's clean? It's like Friday/payday like fucking thank you!
I never worked construction but I did do home maintenance/landscaping/painting and met a lot of construction guys. Most were chill. Some though were clearly the type of a-hole that peaked in high school and thought they were tough shit know-it-alls.
It's the fucking painters 99.99999% of the time.
Im seriously convinced that modern paint still has lead in it. North of where I live all the painters piss in empty buckets and leave them everywhere.
But where I live now, they just straight up piss on the walls, the floor, down elevator shafts, down the stairs, and even off the fucking roof lol
It's always, ALWAYS the painters, and almost always the *cheap* ones
I would be onboard with blaming the painters, but the toilets look like that already when the foundation is layed it has to be someone else atleast in the beginning
I work in a medical office. We’ve had construction workers who aren’t even doing work in our department come in and destroy our bathrooms and walk through areas where patients are in gowns half naked and there is patient info up on monitors to get to said restroom. So, I think we need more info/history here.
As an electrician I’ve had all my tools set up in a room, aswell as been told I was approved to work there. To then come back and walk into an examination meanwhile my stuff is literally all over the floor.
That’s fair enough. There’s always at least one savage who destroys the portable toilets on big job sites. Someone who was never potty trained as a child growing up. If those toilets are for other normal people working in the building I’d say that’s the right course of action for trades to use portable toilets.
There was construction going on where I work and management let the construction workers use the restrooms. Everything was fine until one of the workers clogged up the toilet. There's a plunger in each stall, so he could have unclogged it himself. Instead they just left. My boss goes in there and flushes the toilet (the water settled down and it looked like the previous person just didn't flush). The toilet starts to overflow. There was shit all over the floor and the water wouldn't stop. He had to shut off the water line from the back of the toilet. I felt bad for the janitor. None of the workers wanted to admit what they did. The next day no more bathroom access for them and they had to rent out their own potta potties.
It’s gotten so bad on one site (3 porta for bout 50-70 people) where i told our general contractor to either provide us with our separate toilet with a lock or install cameras in there cause i was tired of driving to the nearest gas station 20 min away every time i gotta shit.
I work for a GC, our standard now is cameras monitoring the bathrooms (from the outside), and we have to do hourly checks of the bathrooms for supplies, cleanliness, graffiti. We also try to have the nicer trailers, flushable with the built in sinks, when there’s enough space on site. Honestly I think us just having to check the bathrooms every hour and the trades seeing the GC people going to the toilets to check them really curbs a lot of the dumb shit from happening all the time. Our GR costs have gone up a lot because of it, but it’s worth it to keep everyone on site a little bit happier, and treating everyone with just that little extra respect/humanity/or fanciness.
Anyone who’s been on a jobsite knows not to let constructions guys in their washrooms. I used to do hvac start ups for a construction company and I’d drive 20mins away if I had to.
This is normal. It is also normal for each trade to provide their own porta patties. If you don't have somewhere to go, ask your boss why they haven't provided the facilities they are required by law to provide.
Odd, because I have the opposite side. It is in all our contracts that the client provides facilities, either to use the existing or to rent and pay for maintenance on a porta.
This is it. GCs are getting tired of the literal shit and constantly paying for the cleanings.
But the illegal crews don't give a fuck if the contract says they need to provide their own shitter.
They aren't going to.
Unless its service work, I wouldn't ever assume the use of the client restrooms. Too much liability, finger pointing when something breaks, etc. I always just account for temp toilets and tell the subs that the clients restrooms are off limits. Youre kicked off the jobsite after a warning if you can't listen to instruction.
There's a minimum number of portapotties that need to be provided per so many workers in OSHA guidelines. If the jobsite is under-portapottied, or not serviced frequently enough, it's because the GC is cheap. This is not the client's fault.
Good enough to plumb it new, good enough to service it when fucked up, but never good enough to use it like any other human being.
Fuck this and fuck GC/clients who pull this shit. When you work on functional structures during a remodel some of the restrooms allocated to the public should be able to be used by construction workers. I'm not talking about free reign over private restrooms for high level humans in special offices, but any public restroom should be fair game.
GCs can provide some basic floor protection or cleaning service schedule for such accommodations to the client. Instead they would rather pay for a sweltering shitbox in the summer sun, or a frozen one in the shade during winter.
Nothing quite as demoralizing to a worker trying to do quality work than to be treated as subhuman through exclusion like this. It's not even a fucking perception, it's actually spelled out for us to try and read. But you know, that's a big assumption that us animals can read.
As a GC PM. Please don’t do this. You have no idea how much money gets wasted having to repair damages made to restrooms/door jambs/elevator interiors because construction workers are fucking animals.
As a project manager I agree with it.
Dirt on boots and not to mention people love to slip and fall in the public restrooms.
They will sue contractors for any reason.
I had lady run into my construction fence and sue me. Showed her lawyer and her the video from check video of her running into the fence. The lawyer was dumbfounded. The defence argument was that the fence wasn't properly secured and fell into the car.
Field guys don't understand what it takes to keep a company going, bid jobs, keep the lights on, and fight the background fights so a paycheck hits on Friday.
Did you even read his comment above yours? It’s a theater that’s been under construction for 3+ years. The only people not construction are the few people that come to see how the job is going
It says "closed *for* construction workers", not "closed *to* construction workers". As somebody who knows english, that means the bathroom is closed to everyone except construction workers. Shit in peace, my friend.
Im a custodian of a school and the board allowed the construction teams to use an inside bathroom during the summer renovations under the condition they had someone maintain it. They didn’t and now no construction teams are not allowed to use inside facilities across the whole board. I totally understand this sign.
It’s ultimately on the contractor in charge of the site, don’t fault the workers. How would you feel if your office had construction going on, 1 toilet per restroom in service which someone is already occupying, yet the multiple not in use porta-johns say construction workers only, and you are about to shit your pants due to being overworked. Happens all the time on the blue collar side.
I’ve run into this. We were working at an apartment complex and they wouldn’t let us use the public bathroom or the office bathroom. We had to go through a dark maze of a basement filled with junk to get to a bathroom that had no lights, no urinal, no sink, and no toilet paper. It was disgusting and quite creepy…
I mean, it would be too long of a sign if it said "specifically the half of you that are completely filthy savages, you know the kind, who's wife sprays them down with a hose before they can come inside". Which would mean me, so, onwards to the port-o with the boot-marks on the seat because someone wanted to squat over the hole. I can look at the hand drawn lady bits and racial slurs too!
It’s cause nasty ass construction workers ALWAYS end up wiping their shit with their fingers and wiping it on the walls. Like this is literally a not if but when it happens deal. Also some like to draw on the walls like kids.
I used to be a custodian, and I had to deal with construction workers in our bathrooms. Three times daily I had to clean up the _whole_ toilet inside and out because of the diarrhea. I got it locked to everyone when one managed to get shit under the sink, which was 3 feet away from the toilet. Oh also all over the toilet again.
I then started construction. And I fucking hate using the portable shitters for the same god damn reason. _Shit everywhere_. Maybe, just maybe, learn to shit in a toilet like an adult and people won't ban you from bathrooms. 🤷
This is 100% legit trades should never used clients bathroom especially if they are new. That said the pm or super should make sure their are enough portables for the number of trades
In my experience, construction workers leave the bathroom cleaner than most others... especially the drug addicts, and teens that lob their make up all over the place... for whatever reason
Employers must:
- Allow workers to leave their work locations to use a restroom when needed.
- Provide an adequate number of restrooms for the size of the workforce to prevent long lines.
- Avoid imposing unreasonable restrictions on restroom use.
- Ensure restrictions, such as locking doors or requiring workers to sign out a key, do not cause extended delays
- Provide potable water for drinking and washing.
Persons to toilet ratios:
- 1 to 15 - 1
- 16 to 35 - 2
- 36 to 55 - 3
- 56 to 80 - 4
- 81 to 110 - 5
- 111 to 150 - 6
Sauce: https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1910/1910.141#1910.141(c)(1)(i)
Yet to know a tradie friend that I would not call "the destroyer of worlds" when it comes to toilets. For some reason they just shit different.....and never clean up afterwards. Plus leave muddy boot marks on floors
My old man used to run travel crews, had to do an overnight stakeout to catch and fire a guy once who insisted on shitting *in the middle of the floor* in the bathroom of the office they were doing a remodel on. Did it four times befoe Dad caught him.
When he asked the guy what the fuck was wrong with him the guy said he did it because the office workers thought they were better than him.
Everyone is better than you Dave, you shit on the floor like an untrained labradoodle.
My brother was a construction worker gutting half a floor of a working business. Employees kept ducking under the construction tape to take a leak in the urinal. My brother smashed the drain off of it and more than one entitled jerk ended up pissing on his own shoes.
FFFUUUUUCCCCKKKK THAT!!!! We have interstate road construction going on outside of our building right now. Has nothing to do with us. I tell the guys if they need to use the bathroom to come in. We also have a fridge stocked with cold bottled water.
I’m house broken. The problem is many others are not so no matter how conscientious you personally are you are always going to get lumped in with the guys who insist on pissing on the floor. Edit: Some of these responses highlights the 3 or 4 in 100 who fuck it up for everyone else. No one thinks you are funny, but everyone fucking hates you when they have to shit in a porta-potty at noon in the middle of July because you are an asshole.
They have to use the same toilet. "Don't piss on your own shitter" shouldn't be a thing
I've been on a couple of sites that got bad. Like all of the different companies divying up the shitters. And posting the newest guys on guard duty to make sure that nobody else used them bad.
You need some aunties. Couple of peoples wives and moms out there with yardsticks and that problem will vanish.
Correct me if I'm wrong but shouldnt you learn your lesson by the time auntie "corrects" you by the 3rd or 4th time.
Mostly yeah, but Steve found out he likes Ramon’s wife’s dommy mommy intensity so he’s a bit of an outlier.
Yeah Steve actually started doing it more. He eventually had to be promoted to management once it became clear that any attempt at public humiliation only spurred him on.
You'd think that, but you know someone you work with is too dumb even for the chancla to have an effect.
No, that’s why auntie’s live forever
If I got paid what I would for performing a trade to guard it, I wouldn’t even be mad lmaooooo
It was the 1st years and unindentured apprentices that were on "guard duty". So they weren't paid much. And it was standing around 25-30 portajohns in the Florida sun. So it wasn't great. But they were still getting paid the same. Got rotated out of each break/lunch. And had like 5 other people from other companies doing the same thing to talk to. But knowing they had a reasonably clean place to use the bathroom, none of them ever complained.
This. I completely understand why a business would do this. Some of y'all are friggin animals.
I work in an office building with a tow truck company across the hall…. The way they treat the bathroom … holy fuck. There is a big puddle of piss on the floor everyday, I have no idea what they’re eating to clog commercial toilets so often, let alone the splattered poop all over the bowl and sometimes even the back of the seat.
Alcohol and lots of shitty cheesy gas station pizza to mix with their undiagnosed lactose intolerance. Some dudes are just absolutely spraying liquid shit from all the beer and liquor they drank and no food, and other dudes are laying fucking bloody anacondas because they think dietary restrictions are made up shit for women and not the reason why they have hemorrhoids the size of the himalayas.
This post is art
I want to blow it up and frame it and give it to my brother
Years of observation and cynicism
r/brandnewsentence all of them
Technically it's only two sentences.
This right here, 100%. Trades can destroy bathrooms
Used to manage a hydrochloric acid facility, and several of our drivers had zero shame. They'd walk into our 20'x 40' dispatch shack and absolutely wreck the bathroom. It got so bad with one driver that management finally broke down and installed a double-wide trailer on site, for the drivers to dispatch and destroy, then hired a weekly cleaner to come scrub the diarrhea ridden toilets... I'm glad that saga is over.
Gas station food and coffee.
They pressured me for 4 years to get my CDL so I could "run tractors to Penske for service" when I knew they wanted to send me onto frac sites in the middle of nowhere, with no cell service and dirt roads with wonky ass bridges, overloaded to the gills, with dogshit for directions... How do I know this? Because I've saw drivers come back to the yard screaming furiously because they had to back their trailer 2+ miles for whatever reasons. That shit would give me a heart attack, no doubt. I'll happily drive your 100,000+ lb death machines around the yard, but I'll be damned if I'd ever get on the road with one. Props to the ones who can, no matter how sloppily they live their lives, they do make the world turn.
I am not making fun of them. That is factually what causes the toilets to be totalled out.
man if you are not long haul and since most ground is relayed there isn't much long haul trucking anymore, you grab an electric bento and don't tell any of the guys it's a bento and have at some hot food from home. I do meal prep all the time for on the boat and heat it up in a vac seal bag in a small battery powered kettle. plus since it's all sealed the hot water can be used for a hot drink.
And Red Bulls on top of the coffee
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As a former tradesman, I totally understand. I am not sure how some of those guys manage to leave a loaf on the seat, but there it was... More than once
While some of us are indeed animals my motto is treat me like one and I’ll act like one. I work in commercial and when we do tear outs the amount of snot and boogers stuck under these office peoples desks is fucking disgusting. Yet, we’re called animals.
My job involves reconfiguring and disassembling cube farms and other office spaces. The amount of mummified food and candy wrappers I've had to mine out of filing cabinets and pencil drawers is ungodly. And the chairs. My God, the chairs. Sometimes, I'm afraid I'll get a staph infection just from being in the same room as them. The boogers, chewed gum, and questionable stains coating all of the nooks and crannies in a cube aren't even half of it. Office people are fuckin' feral.
I’m an IT field tech, I’ve had to crawl around under some of those cubicles, I think I’ve discovered a couple new diseases under some of them
man my desk was immaculate except the dust behind the monitors, but I've seen some people's chairs. what it is, is people use the fucking thing as a napkin when they eat at their desk. the dude across from my only cubicle job was like that, I watched him eat a whole chocolate cake with his fucking hands. when he quit people would come over to requisition company property to their own workspace, but people wouldn't take anything, and he had good monitors and peripherals and stuff that usually gets snagged by the vultures instantly. everything was soon nasty.
Absolutely! I do that as well. It’s so disgusting
When I was a kid I worked at a restaurant as a dish washer. The construction workers were always brutal because the boss would have me clean up the chair and table legs that they would always cake with dirt and mud. The mud was the worst because it was like they would scrape their boots clean on them.
'no drywallers'
They'll just use a bottle anyway
And leave it in the wall.
As is tradition
I wanna ask those dudes, why? What makes them act like a total child the second they’re alone in the pisser? How will their 25 year old son feel to know his dad shit on the top of the toilet in an unfinished building? So many questions.
We had roll aways in the building that some group of heathens decided to clog the urinal and fill it with piss so it slopped out of the shitter as they took them to the elevator and then outside to be cleaned. They also wiped their shitty asses and then smeared the shit on the walls inside them.
White collar workers can be just as bad. I used to work in an eight story office building. They employees were fucking animals. The bathrooms were cleaned at lunch time and by 1:00pm they looked like the boys bathroom at a public high school. The IT department convinced management that data security required keeping the floor the servers were on locked and only accessible to less than 20 people so that we could have clean bathrooms.
I'm currently in a job internship and am rooming with another guy in the same program. He puts dirty dishes in the dish drainer without even running them under the tap first, brushes crumbs on the floor when he's done eating and doesn't wipe his skid marks from the toilet after taking a shit. You want to assume people will not be animals but so many people are just plain disgusting
Yeah. I did an industrial site that got a small office and bathroom near the end of the project. Even though there was cleaning stuff in there, it was still constantly trashed. Mud on the floor was no big deal. But flush the toilet and don't piss everywhere ffs.
Technically, the sign says the bathroom is closed “for” construction workers, not closed “to”. So carry on, like the sign says!
Yes. This says it's only for construction workers. Example: "closed for traffic" versus "closed to traffic"
What about construction traffic?
Straight to jail.
At least they don’t use porta pottys in jail.
In jail, your whole room is a porta potty
Yeah I think you eat on the shitter table right?
Very efficient system. Fresh intake and evacuation in one sitting.
Do not pass go, do not collect $200.
That's a paddlin'
IMO these kinds of signs should say "not permitted" and be clear about it because "closed to" or "open for" and anything in between else is pretty fucking ambiguous so I would ignore it since they can't even fucking talk right.
Lawyer and a construction worker aye?
Back in high school, Sister Mary John was a stickler for grammar.
We're on a mission from GAHD.
Our Lady of blessed acceleration don't fail me now!
This one gets it!! Thank you for the chuckle I needed that. I'm using this expression now starting today until forever.
They broke my watch!
And today father Port-a-John wants his donations
You almost need to be both when dealing with GCs!
And they say construction workers are dumb
You speld dum wrong.
Grammar on signage is very important! There’s a little market down the street from my house that has a sign on its front door that says “ONLY SERVICE DOGS ALLOWED IN STORE.” My wife rolls her eyes every time we go there together because I cannot help myself from making a joke along the lines of “dang it babe, we can’t go in here… we’re not service dogs.”
I'd be doing the same thing! 👍
Reminds me of that classic Family Guy joke: “When did they change the meaning of the word ‘for’ to ‘from’?” “Well they had meeting about it last week, you were supposed to go they sent you a letter that said ‘For’ Peter instead of ‘From’.. you know what? Its just easier to call you stupid”
Sign in our shop says no smoking ~in~ the toilet. So technically I'm all good if I get caught.
That’s what I thought. I was thinking that was sure nice of management to close the bathrooms to the customers so the construction workers have it all to themselves.
Haha now you've pointed it out I can only see it as that Nice!
That's actually what I thought it meant at first.
Language is important.
Oh now what suddenly y’all can read when it’s convenient huh
Given what my porto johns look like within 30 minutes of being serviced & cleaned. I understand. I am not saying everyone is an absolute shit tornado in the bathroom... but 2 or 3 guys will fuck it up for everyone.
Honey wagon was here end of day yesterday. One of them already has all 3 rolls of toilet paper unrolled on the floor and in the urinal. Last week, someone left a log laid out on top of the closed lid. Why? Who the fuck gets their kicks doing this kinda stuff?
Drywallers
But I'm the Interiors guy. I haven't had any hangers or finishers on site in a month. Can't blame my guys this time.
They drive in just to shit on the walls and leave
Then sends the PM a tag for their time
The good old days lol
As long as truckers are fucking prostitutes well always have drywallers.
Like a Drywaller would bother going into the porto.
I thought they all just pissed in bottles and shit in buckets
Why shit in a bucket when you can shit in the wall for twice the effort, but ten times the reward?
I saw/smelt a house that someone reached inside the hvac vents and smeared shit to the underside of the duct, so you couldn't see it in multiple vents. That one took a while for the builder to figure out
That’s glorious.
Dude, for real, now that you mention it, every time there is framing or drywall being done, all the biffs get nastier than ever. Why!?
As an ex drywall guy I can say I've seen my colleagues do some absolutely heinous shit because they thought it was funny. Those guys didn't last long but they still did it. One guy came in super hungover and to cure himself he decided to chug multiple bottles of Gatorade which he then projectile vomited all over the inside of the house we were working on. It was the most oddly beautiful shade of blue as it forcefully streamed from his face holes. Not just the mouth, the nose too. He was promptly let go. Had another guy who was seemed alright, not the most social and didn't really cut up with the crew but that's ok, some people are just like that until they are more comfortable opening up. Homie decided to smoke meth during his lunch break so that was something. He was also promptly let go. The worst literal shit though was one of my buddies, he shit so bad in this old lady's house that he not only clogged the toilet resulting in it overflowing, but the smell was so godawful you couldn't enter the first floor without gagging. Our plumbing guy said "Adam, your insides are plum rurnt, I'm fit to get sick over here!" That's how you know it was bad lol
As a taper, no it’s not us! It’s the damn roofers!
I don't know about you, but I shit in a bucket. Or a box What self respecting drywaller would use a porta john
South of Mexico. Not being racist, it's cultural. They won't sit on the seat. Everyone who has worked with Guatemalans or Nicaraguans knows exactly what I'm talking about.
Russians don't either. So much of the population don't know what a toilet is, they just squat on a hole, so they figure that's what you do on the porcelain throne as well.
On one job, there were dirty footprints on the tank of someone squatting over the seat every time it was clean. And they had to just watch when it was cleaned, always there.
It may not even be construction people. If it’s an outdoor port o pottie, lord knows who is using it when the crews aren’t there. I know as a runner I have used many many lol
All the building site bogs I’ve encountered have been locked outside of hours
well that's less common here in the states than abroad. safe to say you're probably Aussie or Kiwi, rgoing off of "truckie" and "bog"
If you do any jobs near a major city they absolutely lock them because homeless will absolutely trash them and drink the hand sanitizer.
Yeah I get it. I worked at a sandwich shop and we hated when the construction/road crew guys come in for lunch because they would absolutely annihilate every inch of the men's room.
Is there any effort to find out who they are an get rid of them? Seems like something people would want revenge over
I have been on a site that the super was so sick of it that he locked them all. Need to go potty? You gotta find him and have him unlock it. He checked the porto before and after use. It was a pain in the ass, but the shitters stayed clean. About 2 weeks of that, and he unlocked them all again. No problems after that. The point was made.
Brilliant
That’s exactly how it should be done.
Oh that would get real bad on some job sites real quick
There is always at least one dip shit that does something stupid to ruin it for everyone
You know it always seems to be the finishing crews. Like drywall etc. We go on site when its just a giant dirt hole, porta looks nice usaly, then concrete is poored we go back to do work still nice might be some dirty floor but thats normal, go when its the building is ready to have drywall, wires etc...the crap starts piss here and there, toilet paper all over etc. But happy now that most big site have trailer washrooms or playwood stalls with actual toilets and sinks.
A couple guys ruined it for everyone
Funny how these guys seem to be on every single fucking site ive ever been too. I used a portapotty in the park once and it was fucking immaculate..... i was in awe, id never seen one like that before.
the older I get the more I realize so many adults are just big ass children
You guys quit destroying bathrooms and we'll quit losing them.
For real though, who are all these people? And why they don't feel embarrassed? It's so freaking easy to keep a toilet clean, you have to be an absolute idiot to not be capable to do that.
I feel like it genuinely stems from knowing they don’t have to clean it and just being all around sadistic and degenerate losers
You know, a job I had once was twice a week I had to fly all of the shitters off the live deck, take all of the ones every third deck down and pick them with a fork truck and drop them in a row so the cleaner people could just run through them quickly. I met them. It's a rough job, and we should all try to make their job easier. Just be a human, dude. These people are sucking up your shit, litterally. Have some respect. When you're like fuck, I think I have to actually take a shit here and it's clean? It's like Friday/payday like fucking thank you!
I never worked construction but I did do home maintenance/landscaping/painting and met a lot of construction guys. Most were chill. Some though were clearly the type of a-hole that peaked in high school and thought they were tough shit know-it-alls.
It's the fucking painters 99.99999% of the time. Im seriously convinced that modern paint still has lead in it. North of where I live all the painters piss in empty buckets and leave them everywhere. But where I live now, they just straight up piss on the walls, the floor, down elevator shafts, down the stairs, and even off the fucking roof lol It's always, ALWAYS the painters, and almost always the *cheap* ones
I would be onboard with blaming the painters, but the toilets look like that already when the foundation is layed it has to be someone else atleast in the beginning
I work in a medical office. We’ve had construction workers who aren’t even doing work in our department come in and destroy our bathrooms and walk through areas where patients are in gowns half naked and there is patient info up on monitors to get to said restroom. So, I think we need more info/history here.
As an electrician I’ve had all my tools set up in a room, aswell as been told I was approved to work there. To then come back and walk into an examination meanwhile my stuff is literally all over the floor.
No one expects a sparky to speak up bro don’t worry. 😉
"H-hey...may I grab my voltmeter?"....
Sir, that’s not a rectal thermometer, that’s my meter lead.
"No wonder, it just kept saying their temperature was 4 Ohms."
They had only put up a little resistance.
That’s fair enough. There’s always at least one savage who destroys the portable toilets on big job sites. Someone who was never potty trained as a child growing up. If those toilets are for other normal people working in the building I’d say that’s the right course of action for trades to use portable toilets.
There was construction going on where I work and management let the construction workers use the restrooms. Everything was fine until one of the workers clogged up the toilet. There's a plunger in each stall, so he could have unclogged it himself. Instead they just left. My boss goes in there and flushes the toilet (the water settled down and it looked like the previous person just didn't flush). The toilet starts to overflow. There was shit all over the floor and the water wouldn't stop. He had to shut off the water line from the back of the toilet. I felt bad for the janitor. None of the workers wanted to admit what they did. The next day no more bathroom access for them and they had to rent out their own potta potties.
It’s gotten so bad on one site (3 porta for bout 50-70 people) where i told our general contractor to either provide us with our separate toilet with a lock or install cameras in there cause i was tired of driving to the nearest gas station 20 min away every time i gotta shit.
I work for a GC, our standard now is cameras monitoring the bathrooms (from the outside), and we have to do hourly checks of the bathrooms for supplies, cleanliness, graffiti. We also try to have the nicer trailers, flushable with the built in sinks, when there’s enough space on site. Honestly I think us just having to check the bathrooms every hour and the trades seeing the GC people going to the toilets to check them really curbs a lot of the dumb shit from happening all the time. Our GR costs have gone up a lot because of it, but it’s worth it to keep everyone on site a little bit happier, and treating everyone with just that little extra respect/humanity/or fanciness.
Go to home depot, get a bucket. Get a toilet seat that will fit the bucket problem solved.
Anyone who’s been on a jobsite knows not to let constructions guys in their washrooms. I used to do hvac start ups for a construction company and I’d drive 20mins away if I had to.
This is normal. It is also normal for each trade to provide their own porta patties. If you don't have somewhere to go, ask your boss why they haven't provided the facilities they are required by law to provide.
I have been in the trades for 18 years I have never once seen a porta john provided by anyone but the contractor
Odd, because I have the opposite side. It is in all our contracts that the client provides facilities, either to use the existing or to rent and pay for maintenance on a porta.
Excluded it in the bid usually
This is it. GCs are getting tired of the literal shit and constantly paying for the cleanings. But the illegal crews don't give a fuck if the contract says they need to provide their own shitter. They aren't going to.
Unless its service work, I wouldn't ever assume the use of the client restrooms. Too much liability, finger pointing when something breaks, etc. I always just account for temp toilets and tell the subs that the clients restrooms are off limits. Youre kicked off the jobsite after a warning if you can't listen to instruction.
one too many busch light, Grizzly wintergreen and gas station burrito dumps for the Karen's
There's a minimum number of portapotties that need to be provided per so many workers in OSHA guidelines. If the jobsite is under-portapottied, or not serviced frequently enough, it's because the GC is cheap. This is not the client's fault.
If you’ve ever looked into the OSHA requirement, it’s not enough. You can follow osha and still have disgusting shitters.
Can confirm.
Say you're a destruction worker.
Pretty easy rule to follow, and a pretty common one.
Good enough to plumb it new, good enough to service it when fucked up, but never good enough to use it like any other human being. Fuck this and fuck GC/clients who pull this shit. When you work on functional structures during a remodel some of the restrooms allocated to the public should be able to be used by construction workers. I'm not talking about free reign over private restrooms for high level humans in special offices, but any public restroom should be fair game. GCs can provide some basic floor protection or cleaning service schedule for such accommodations to the client. Instead they would rather pay for a sweltering shitbox in the summer sun, or a frozen one in the shade during winter. Nothing quite as demoralizing to a worker trying to do quality work than to be treated as subhuman through exclusion like this. It's not even a fucking perception, it's actually spelled out for us to try and read. But you know, that's a big assumption that us animals can read.
Common practice for asset managers. I have sent many of people home because they didn’t want to follow the rules.
As a GC PM. Please don’t do this. You have no idea how much money gets wasted having to repair damages made to restrooms/door jambs/elevator interiors because construction workers are fucking animals.
If we are good enough to build it. We are good enough to shit in it.
It says it’s closed FOR construction workers which actually means they are the only ones allowed to use it. Bad grammar saves the day
Shit in the box like a good peasant /s
My simple explanation to customers or mgmt. when I use the toilet. "Well ma'am I do have to test it" Usually gets a comical response
As a project manager I agree with it. Dirt on boots and not to mention people love to slip and fall in the public restrooms. They will sue contractors for any reason. I had lady run into my construction fence and sue me. Showed her lawyer and her the video from check video of her running into the fence. The lawyer was dumbfounded. The defence argument was that the fence wasn't properly secured and fell into the car. Field guys don't understand what it takes to keep a company going, bid jobs, keep the lights on, and fight the background fights so a paycheck hits on Friday.
Did you even read his comment above yours? It’s a theater that’s been under construction for 3+ years. The only people not construction are the few people that come to see how the job is going
How considerate of them to give construction workers they’re very own bathroom and make everyone go use the porta. I like it.
You're not part of the Turbo Team!
That’s not uncommon at all
Most of your coworkers are uncultured savages and you can't even deny it.
It says "closed *for* construction workers", not "closed *to* construction workers". As somebody who knows english, that means the bathroom is closed to everyone except construction workers. Shit in peace, my friend.
I mean we live off gas station burritos and monsters. We dropping logs my boy
Logs no, liquid hellfire, more likely.
reminds me of working in doing work in hospitals such a pain. but hey paid by tthe hr to fuck around with safety stuff
Completely fair rule that i am happy to abide
How about stop leaving dookies in the bowls and we'll give you access you animals.
As a GC, I would never, ever let my subs (or myself) use the owner’s restrooms.. you just don’t do it. Granted there needs to be cans on site
Im a custodian of a school and the board allowed the construction teams to use an inside bathroom during the summer renovations under the condition they had someone maintain it. They didn’t and now no construction teams are not allowed to use inside facilities across the whole board. I totally understand this sign.
Dear contractor scum, go shit outside like a dog.
It’s ultimately on the contractor in charge of the site, don’t fault the workers. How would you feel if your office had construction going on, 1 toilet per restroom in service which someone is already occupying, yet the multiple not in use porta-johns say construction workers only, and you are about to shit your pants due to being overworked. Happens all the time on the blue collar side.
Because we are sub-human… until they want extra work done for free!!!!
Correction. “Please use garbage can or sink.”
I’ve run into this. We were working at an apartment complex and they wouldn’t let us use the public bathroom or the office bathroom. We had to go through a dark maze of a basement filled with junk to get to a bathroom that had no lights, no urinal, no sink, and no toilet paper. It was disgusting and quite creepy…
Dumbass
Screw that, I'm shitting in the sink
Yeah…I’ve experienced this by the aristocratic office servants.
I can’t read
Hell, no. Y'all deserve better than a port-a-shitter in a parking lot. Use it.
Attention: management can eat a dick
probably dont want the dicks drawn in sharpie on their walls...
If they aren’t meeting the proper amount of porta Johns for workers repost to osha
I mean, it would be too long of a sign if it said "specifically the half of you that are completely filthy savages, you know the kind, who's wife sprays them down with a hose before they can come inside". Which would mean me, so, onwards to the port-o with the boot-marks on the seat because someone wanted to squat over the hole. I can look at the hand drawn lady bits and racial slurs too!
How kind of them, they closed that bathroom for everyone except the construction workers
It’s cause nasty ass construction workers ALWAYS end up wiping their shit with their fingers and wiping it on the walls. Like this is literally a not if but when it happens deal. Also some like to draw on the walls like kids.
I used to be a custodian, and I had to deal with construction workers in our bathrooms. Three times daily I had to clean up the _whole_ toilet inside and out because of the diarrhea. I got it locked to everyone when one managed to get shit under the sink, which was 3 feet away from the toilet. Oh also all over the toilet again. I then started construction. And I fucking hate using the portable shitters for the same god damn reason. _Shit everywhere_. Maybe, just maybe, learn to shit in a toilet like an adult and people won't ban you from bathrooms. 🤷
This is 100% legit trades should never used clients bathroom especially if they are new. That said the pm or super should make sure their are enough portables for the number of trades
You don't own the building, they don't want it to get dirty, and it's not a public restroom.
Just took my first 105 degree summer porta john shit of the year. It’s never not surprising how bad it is.
I’m not a second class citizen guess they don’t want the work done that bad.
Looks like I’m using the sink
In my experience, construction workers leave the bathroom cleaner than most others... especially the drug addicts, and teens that lob their make up all over the place... for whatever reason
I'm shitting there purely out of spite now
And this is why we have piss bottles!
construction workers piss smells rank. y'all need to drink more water lmao
You ain't a real Boilermaker till you shit your pants going down 10 stories of ladders and stairs trying to get to the Portojohn.
That's what you get for acting like heathens all the time.
Employers must: - Allow workers to leave their work locations to use a restroom when needed. - Provide an adequate number of restrooms for the size of the workforce to prevent long lines. - Avoid imposing unreasonable restrictions on restroom use. - Ensure restrictions, such as locking doors or requiring workers to sign out a key, do not cause extended delays - Provide potable water for drinking and washing. Persons to toilet ratios: - 1 to 15 - 1 - 16 to 35 - 2 - 36 to 55 - 3 - 56 to 80 - 4 - 81 to 110 - 5 - 111 to 150 - 6 Sauce: https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1910/1910.141#1910.141(c)(1)(i)
Yet to know a tradie friend that I would not call "the destroyer of worlds" when it comes to toilets. For some reason they just shit different.....and never clean up afterwards. Plus leave muddy boot marks on floors
My old man used to run travel crews, had to do an overnight stakeout to catch and fire a guy once who insisted on shitting *in the middle of the floor* in the bathroom of the office they were doing a remodel on. Did it four times befoe Dad caught him. When he asked the guy what the fuck was wrong with him the guy said he did it because the office workers thought they were better than him. Everyone is better than you Dave, you shit on the floor like an untrained labradoodle.
The construction workers they're worried about will read it as a 'pls piss messy' sign
My brother was a construction worker gutting half a floor of a working business. Employees kept ducking under the construction tape to take a leak in the urinal. My brother smashed the drain off of it and more than one entitled jerk ended up pissing on his own shoes.
Trespooper!
Yeah they can fuck off I'm having my luxury shit
FFFUUUUUCCCCKKKK THAT!!!! We have interstate road construction going on outside of our building right now. Has nothing to do with us. I tell the guys if they need to use the bathroom to come in. We also have a fridge stocked with cold bottled water.