Employees Must Wash Hands Before Returning to Work

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The story is a satirical website reminding employees to wash their hands before returning to work, sparking discussion on the seriousness of workplace hygiene and the effectiveness of such reminders.

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bjourne

3 months ago

2 replies

Employees must also use the toilet brush and not leave shit stains on the toilet bowl.

falseprofit

3 months ago

2 replies

That’s the next guy’s job to pressure wash it off ;)

LargoLasskhyfv

3 months ago

1 reply

That's just spraying it around as aerosol. Try foamy baking oven cleaning spray. Dissolves anything away. Yay!

john01dav

3 months ago

Bathroom air is full of poop particles. This is why I don't keep my tooth brush there.

tonyedgecombe

3 months ago

A friend of mine used to leave a ping pong ball in the bowl when she had a party to give the guys something to aim at.

hvgenrbrbdh

3 months ago

1 reply

I feel like toilet brushes should not be used to smear shit around and get stuck in the bristles. They should be used for scrubbing an unsoiled toilet. There should be another tool for dislodging shit and it makes me so sad people do this

cluckindan

3 months ago

1 reply

You scrub while flushing a second time.

Except if you live in Droughtifornia.

potato3732842

3 months ago

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Letting the western desert states push federal regulation of water fixtures onto the rest of the nation was a huge mistake. There's no reason that the myriad of river supplied municipalities (who then treat and return that water so there's no net loss) in the east can't have absurd toilets with 20gal flushes and shower nozzles that exfoliate if you get too close.

mindslight

3 months ago

2 replies

Anyone can replace a showerhead in 5 minutes. The only reasons someone would complain about showering with a crappy showerhead is either because they're staying in a hotel (although most hotels don't even tolerate that shit), or because they're a complainer. Just don't be the dweeb who uses teflon tape.

ralph84

3 months ago

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Replacing it isn’t the problem, buying it is. Yes I’m sure you can find showerheads with illegal flow rates available online, but reputable stores won’t sell anything over 2.5 gpm anywhere in the US, and over 2.0 or 1.8 in the states that have those limits. Amazon won’t ship the higher flow rates into a lower flow rate state.

keanb

3 months ago

1 reply

I didn't know "illegal showerheads" existed. I thought the Seinfeld episode was a joke.

mindslight

3 months ago

Note that a restriction on commercial sales still does not make an item itself "illegal".

I'm not trying to ignore the frustrating activation energy of having to spec/get/install your own showerhead rather than automatically having a default you like. But it's clear that amount of market friction here is much less than say, the overt digital authoritarianism currently going on across the whole phone app/software market. And it's important to keep this perspective, lest memes about "illegal showerheads" morph into groupthink that supports different authoritarian movements.

eurleif

3 months ago

Amazon does, however, ship showerheads that come with an instruction sheet for how to remove the flow restrictor. (One must only do this to compensate for one's home having low water pressure, of course.)

mapontosevenths

3 months ago

1 reply

What's wrong with Teflon tape? It stops minor dripping if you have older pipes with worn threads.

mindslight

3 months ago

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Teflon tape is for NPT (National Pipe Taper), which seals through thread interference. For the various things I do, I generally use a three layer sandwich of pipedope-tape-pipedope for the least chance of dealing with leaks. I'd rather take a little more time to make up a joint than have to disassemble and remake one in the middle of an assembly.

Showerheads are generally NPS (National Pipe Straight) which seals with a rubber washer. So if there is leaking, the real problem is that rubber washer is missing or old, or the female piece is cracked. Adding tape often encourages cracking the showerhead female, as it pushes out on the threads and showerheads are often chromed plastic. This goes doubly when the pipe coming out of the wall is actually NPT, and the tape encourages you to really over tighten it. Tape can be useful sometimes to hackily make things better, it's just not a good default.

mapontosevenths

3 months ago

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It sounds like you know far more than I do about it.

I'll try without it first next time! Thanks!

mindslight

3 months ago

Just make sure there is an indeed a rubber washer for the sealing. And if it leaks, try replacing that or even adding a second one first. Although none of this applies if both threads do indeed look tapered. And also the rubber washer often has a built in screen in the middle, to catch pieces of whatever (like bits of teflon tape, lol) rather than them clogging up the showerhead's holes.

stavros

3 months ago

Why are these images 12 megapixels each?

pixelpoet

3 months ago

My preferred version: https://i.imgur.com/Xh5rFgA.jpeg

oniony

3 months ago

Does it have to be their own hands?

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