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[mistriTsquirrel]

I am a waitress. My main reason for not doing cleanup like that while working, is that I don't want people sitting in my section--who get up to use the bathroom--to see their waitress cleaning up human waste.

If it's afterhours or before we open, I don't really care. I usually get stuck with those sorts of jobs because others whine and complain about having to do them, but I don't, so guess who the boss picks to clean up?

I used to have to clean the bathroom at an oil-change place. It wasn't officially in my job description, but all of the grease monkeys working there didn't want to do it...so they let an 18-year-old girl who wouldn't whine about it clean up their messes. I can tell you that there were some doozies. There was no plunger in there, so the toilet brush was sometimes used as a substitute. I found out that those guys had no idea how to clean. I looked at what they'd been using to clean the bathroom and shook my head. They were using a floor cleaner with wax in it to mop the floor. So, in effect, they were sealing in layers of greasy boot tracks. One day I was permitted to leave work and buy the products I knew were needed before I cleaned the bathroom. The guys remarked that they'd never seen it so clean...and it didn't take a whole lot of knowledge or very many products to remedy how awful it looked in there. They just needed a woman who knew what she was doing.

[inallsincerity]

On 2/8/2014 mistriTsquirrel said:

I am a waitress. My main reason for not doing cleanup like that while working, is that I don't want people sitting in my section--who get up to use the bathroom--to see their waitress cleaning up human waste.

If it's afterhours or before we open, I don't really care. I usually get stuck with those sorts of jobs because others whine and complain about having to do them, but I don't, so guess who the boss picks to clean up?

I used to have to clean the bathroom at an oil-change place. It wasn't officially in my job description, but all of the grease monkeys working there didn't want to do it...so they let an 18-year-old girl who wouldn't whine about it clean up their messes. I can tell you that there were some doozies. There was no plunger in there, so the toilet brush was sometimes used as a substitute. I found out that those guys had no idea how to clean. I looked at what they'd been using to clean the bathroom and shook my head. They were using a floor cleaner with wax in it to mop the floor. So, in effect, they were sealing in layers of greasy boot tracks. One day I was permitted to leave work and buy the products I knew were needed before I cleaned the bathroom. The guys remarked that they'd never seen it so clean...and it didn't take a whole lot of knowledge or very many products to remedy how awful it looked in there. They just needed a woman who knew what she was doing.

In answer to OP, yes I would and have. To mistri, long long time waitress and restaurant manager. I know your pain! We always used to discuss who should clean an overflowing toilet/dirty restaurant. At open and close, it is the server's duty. What about accidents during business hours? I usually did it, but who should it be? A server handling food? A member of the kitchen staff??? The manager assisting servers and chefs? The buss boys? Hostess? Dishwasher? Personally, I vote dishwasher. I did it when I was the dishwasher.

[inallsincerity]

On 2/8/2014 inallsincerity said:

On 2/8/2014 mistriTsquirrel said:

I am a waitress. My main reason for not doing cleanup like that while working, is that I don't want people sitting in my section--who get up to use the bathroom--to see their waitress cleaning up human waste.

If it's afterhours or before we open, I don't really care. I usually get stuck with those sorts of jobs because others whine and complain about having to do them, but I don't, so guess who the boss picks to clean up?

I used to have to clean the bathroom at an oil-change place. It wasn't officially in my job description, but all of the grease monkeys working there didn't want to do it...so they let an 18-year-old girl who wouldn't whine about it clean up their messes. I can tell you that there were some doozies. There was no plunger in there, so the toilet brush was sometimes used as a substitute. I found out that those guys had no idea how to clean. I looked at what they'd been using to clean the bathroom and shook my head. They were using a floor cleaner with wax in it to mop the floor. So, in effect, they were sealing in layers of greasy boot tracks. One day I was permitted to leave work and buy the products I knew were needed before I cleaned the bathroom. The guys remarked that they'd never seen it so clean...and it didn't take a whole lot of knowledge or very many products to remedy how awful it looked in there. They just needed a woman who knew what she was doing.

In answer to OP, yes I would and have. To mistri, long long time waitress and restaurant manager. I know your pain! We always used to discuss who should clean an overflowing toilet/dirty restaurant. At open and close, it is the server's duty. What about accidents during business hours? I usually did it, but who should it be? A server handling food? A member of the kitchen staff??? The manager assisting servers and chefs? The buss boys? Hostess? Dishwasher? Personally, I vote dishwasher. I did it when I was the dishwasher.

By the way, I was always on "puke" duty at every job too. Retail, restaurant, office...seems like the others would always get sick if they did it.

[RedHeadedWench]

I wouldn't touch it, notify management, and find another potty.

[mistriTsquirrel]

On 2/8/2014 inallsincerity said:

On 2/8/2014 inallsincerity said:

On 2/8/2014 mistriTsquirrel said:

I am a waitress. My main reason for not doing cleanup like that while working, is that I don't want people sitting in my section--who get up to use the bathroom--to see their waitress cleaning up human waste.

If it's afterhours or before we open, I don't really care. I usually get stuck with those sorts of jobs because others whine and complain about having to do them, but I don't, so guess who the boss picks to clean up?

I used to have to clean the bathroom at an oil-change place. It wasn't officially in my job description, but all of the grease monkeys working there didn't want to do it...so they let an 18-year-old girl who wouldn't whine about it clean up their messes. I can tell you that there were some doozies. There was no plunger in there, so the toilet brush was sometimes used as a substitute. I found out that those guys had no idea how to clean. I looked at what they'd been using to clean the bathroom and shook my head. They were using a floor cleaner with wax in it to mop the floor. So, in effect, they were sealing in layers of greasy boot tracks. One day I was permitted to leave work and buy the products I knew were needed before I cleaned the bathroom. The guys remarked that they'd never seen it so clean...and it didn't take a whole lot of knowledge or very many products to remedy how awful it looked in there. They just needed a woman who knew what she was doing.

In answer to OP, yes I would and have. To mistri, long long time waitress and restaurant manager. I know your pain! We always used to discuss who should clean an overflowing toilet/dirty restaurant. At open and close, it is the server's duty. What about accidents during business hours? I usually did it, but who should it be? A server handling food? A member of the kitchen staff??? The manager assisting servers and chefs? The buss boys? Hostess? Dishwasher? Personally, I vote dishwasher. I did it when I was the dishwasher.

By the way, I was always on "puke" duty at every job too. Retail, restaurant, office...seems like the others would always get sick if they did it.

Unfortunately, if someone gets sick at the table, the server gets that job where I work. I can only imagine what the other customers are thinking when they see that. It's usually a little kid when that happens, but I had a co-worker who had an adult customer come in drunk who got sick on the table.

I remember one night, I had an older couple sitting in my section. I smelled a foul odor when I approached. A few minutes later, I was talking to the supervisor, and I was like, "I think this old guy at my table..." and my supervisor said "s*** his pants? I know. His wife asked me to check on him because he was in the bathroom for a long time. When I ducked my head in and asked if he was okay, he was messing around with his pants a lot; it was weird. Oh...remind me to check the bathroom." I said okay. So...this guy apparently had an accident, and instead of leaving, he and his wife sit there and order, wait for their food, eat their food and enjoy a drink...while he's sitting in his own excrement. Later, I asked my supervisor if he'd checked the men's restroom. He forgot. It was after closing time, and we headed towards the bathroom. I stood outside as he walked in. He just walked out, with this very concerned look on his face. I was like, "seriously? How bad is it?" He just shook his head. I walked in there to bear witness to the carnage, and after the horror of it all wore off, I just started laughing. It looked like this guy had tried to shovel the contents of his pants into the toilet and failed...and then there were the hand prints. Oh god...the hand prints!!! Since it was Halloween (did I mention that?), we blamed it on an evil s***geist, and then discussed whether or not we should just leave the mess for the cleaning guy who was coming in the next morning. BWAHAHAHAHA!!!