It seems no matter where I work there is always a shortage of men’s bathrooms. When I worked in Plymouth the company was mostly women. I think the breakdown was something like 65-75% women. You would think with a smaller per-captia ratio that the men’s bathroom would be more readily available, but it wasn’t. Granted, the women were hurtin’ worse. They had it so bad they were forced to use men’s bathrooms when no one was looking (and when no men occupied it). And we all know how my gender tends to leave the state of bathrooms.
Businesses in the warehouse district have it tough. The old buildings were built in a time when a single shared bathroom per floor was common and the density of workers was light. I work now with twice as many men with the same amount of stalls as did Plymouth. It’s pretty much booked from 11am to 3pm during the day. Thus, we have to get creative sometimes.
I had a discussion this morning where we compared the quality of restrooms on the other floors versus our own. Although we couldn’t come to an agreement whether 5th floor was better than 8th floor, we did decide that anywhere was better than the one we have. The local repository invokes the same emotions as do the dank restrooms of St. Paul bars.
