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[Closed] RANT! Smartphones causing congestion in the gents!

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It would appear that menfolk where I work are spending four times as long in the trap as a direct result of smartphone usage.

Instead of getting on with purging, most people are now Facebooking, checking the weather, looking at the Nando's menu etc. and causing toilet tailbacks. Several times this week I've had a mole at the counter and been disappointed / enraged / frightened to find all traps in use. I've had to make a very careful, tightly held diversion to the factory floor loos which are not great.

So. LEAVE YOUR PHONES ON YOUR DESK. Go to the loo for a number two not to tweet or whatever...

*splutters*


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 12:24 pm
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Guilty, as charged... 😳


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 12:25 pm
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If you find an entertaining App, it might help you hold it in a bit longer...


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 12:28 pm
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This used to really annoy me when I worked in a big office. One of my colleagues would routinely disappear for an hour after lunch with the newspaper under his arm (that's the analogue version of an i-phone kids). Even when we were dead busy and could have done with some work out of him. I mean fair enough one needs to perform ones ablutions, but anything over 15mins is skiving.

I have to confess I cracked (sorry) and dobbed him to his boss, who had a quiet word. At least that is what they told me, probably did funny handshakes, talked about Rangers and slapped each other on the bum.


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 12:32 pm
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Facebooking, checking the weather, looking at the Nando's menu etc.

Yes, that’s it. Facebook.

Ahem.


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 12:32 pm
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Dunno what you are on about there DS. I for one have never texted you a picture of the inside of trap 3 in a moment of boredom. Oh... hang on. 😀

Off at a tangent... Why are the works bogs always more disgusting than the office ones? Do overalls mess up your aim and enlarge the bore diameter of your bum hole?

Office Loos = Angry Birds

Factory Loos = Angry Turds


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 12:34 pm
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I have regularly heard snoring coming from one of the traps in the gents in my office 😕


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 12:35 pm
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Mole at the counter 😆


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 12:37 pm
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Although the longer you bake it for the less paperwork there is.

Every cloud and all that...


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 12:41 pm
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Although the longer you bake it for the less paperwork there is.

Really? I just find it smears it more. :/


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 2:37 pm
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Bake it longer then, until the outer is crisp.


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 2:39 pm
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Erm.. How do you expect folks to play Angry Birds Star Wars..

" tuts "


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 2:41 pm
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but anything over 15mins is skiving

Anything over 15mins is constipation


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 2:45 pm
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Just be smug in the fact that their smartphone will be a cesspool of various germs and will now be dirtier that the toilet they are sitting on.

http://cell-phones.toptenreviews.com/smartphones/terrifying-germs-that-live-on-your-smartphone.html


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 2:51 pm
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I sometimes find myself spending a little too long on the loo at work and am guilty recently of taking my phone with me. I like to think it's compensation for never getting a moments peace at home.


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 2:51 pm
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Just accuse them of it being Grinder related toilet time.


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 2:59 pm
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I'm writing this from the bog.


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 3:10 pm
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🙂

(Given that shit is on the OK list, I hope this doesn't cause too much offence...!)


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 3:14 pm
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looking at the Nando's menu

Well that won't take long ?

1. Chicken
2. Some drinks.


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 3:14 pm
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Nandos menu - just cut out the middleman save time and chuck a £10 down the cludgie.


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 3:18 pm
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How else am I supposed to browse stw, I can't be expected to do it at my desk now, can I? 😀


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 3:48 pm
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most people are now Facebooking, checking the weather, looking at the Nando's menu etc

And you know their browsing history how exactly?

Is it a hidden ShitCam or are you peering over from an adjacent cubicle?


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 4:44 pm
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how naive to think that the toilets are just used for purgery!


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 4:47 pm
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Instead of getting on with purging, most people are now [s]Facebooking, checking the weather, looking at the Nando's menu etc.[/s] posting on STW forum


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 5:14 pm

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