There's no reason for a person to lurk in there. If they really HAVE to have it THAT perfect, all they have to do is check in every 15 minutes to ensure cleanliness and supplies.

With other strangers doing their thing, there's a mutual ignoring of one another, out of politeness. But I don't want someone just standing around while I attend to personal matters!

Why would someone want to have that job anyway? Not entering a bathroom frequently during the day, not cleaning it...but to be in the bathroom all day. You have to listen to people shit and piss and smell it as well. What a shit job.

I have given tips to bathroom attendants working at expensive restaurants, especially if it is an elderly gentleman.

Once I was drinking at a Sports Bar and I had to take a piss. I walked to the bathroom and this dude, about age 25 wearing T shirt and jeans was standing outside the door.
He proceeded to open the door and follow me in. He just stood there while I pissed in the urinal...it really freaked me out. I then washed my hands and he handed me a paper towel.
As I tried to exit he sort of glanced at a jar that had a dollar bill in it but I told him all my money was out on the bar.
I wonder if he really worked there or was running some scam.

I think opposite gender restroom attendants are awkward and unnecessary. If you're going to hire women for mens' rooms and men for womens' rooms, then at least put a 'temporarily closed for cleaning' sign at the entrance while the attendant is cleaning up.

Why have someone stationed in there all the time? That is, indeed, creepy.

P.S. I've also noticed that you're far more likely to encounter female attendants lurking around male facilities than the opposite. There is a decided double standard regarding male expections of privacy. Often, they seem to be non-existent, such as in the case of allowing female sports reporters to barge into lockers while pro male athletes are naked and towelling off from showers or using the facilities.

You won't find male sports reporters demanding to have access to naked WNBA players. Men, it seems, are supposed to put up with this double standard and say nothing, while feminist thinking along these lines seems to be that it should be no big deal.

I'm waiting for the reaction of such women to a male attendant lurking full-time in their bathrooms.

doniker's post is also an example of overkill on the part of attendants. If that guy really was an attendant, his behavior was creepy and obnoxious.

The job can't pay well, of course, but that attendant turned himself into a stalker.

It would make for an interesting option on "career day" at the local school. Or what about that day where everybody is supposed to come in and tell what their dad/mom does for a living:

Little Mary: "My Dad is a doctor and my Mom is a lawyer."

Little Sarah: "My Dad is a rocket scientist and my Mom is an Episcopalian Bishop."

Little Dumpster: "My Dad is a restroom attendant, and my Mom..." (remainder drowned out by derisive laughter from peers).

You have to feel sorry for those people, putting up with people's crap (literally)...

Tip them well so they can do something nice for themselves once in a while.

You have to feel sorry for those people, putting up with people's crap (literally)...

Tip them well so they can do something nice for themselves once in a while.

WHY FEEL SORRY??

I would imagine that bathroom attendants at top of the line restaurants and hotels make a pretty good buck.
The janitors do all the heavy cleaning while the attendant only takes care of emergencies and the occasional stench which can easily be combatted with Lysol.
I think I will research the salary of such a job...if they make more than my current salary I could be in for a career change.

And probably a lot more good PR stories, too, Doniker. Go for it!!

I pity the day I get desperate enough to take a job like that. Especially in a men's restroom! Eew.

Only a handful of the TOP restaurants and hotels will offer a salary with benefits for restroom attendants. The rest live solely from tips (they usually get tipped $1 per person per visit if they get tipped at all) or they might be lucky enough to be paid about eight bucks an hour.

I googled it. Not that we should believe everything we read on the internet, but most of the sites I read said pretty much the same thing.

Well, $8 an hour is my company's starting wage for new associates (in CA, anyway). The work is harder, though, and we don't usually get tips (although I have received a number of them; I daresay I offer superior service). :D

Standing around a bathroom can't be that difficult, and if there's a tip jar on the counter, so much the better!

Not that I'm rushing out to sign up, or anything.

well that's the whole thing.

if you are a bathroom attendant at a high class joint you hope for those drunk millionaires to use the toilet and give a $20 tip.....

If you leave a huge turd ask the attendant if he has a camera. That, or summon him to the bowl, pre-flush, and ask,"Have you ever seen a log THAT big?"

Actually, if the WBNA got any type of media recognition more than it does, I'd be very excited. Just sayin'. Those be-atches can play.

But I have to agree that a man in a women's bathroom is highly unlikely. The only solution to female attendants in a male bathroom is to complain to the manager of the establishment.

Otherwise, I see it continuing.

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Man I hate it when i am dropping a deuce in a public shitter and some asshole plops down on the taza beside me and starts farting and grunting,pissing and shitting because they never want to do a courtesy flush, no just sit there and let the fumes choke me,inconsiderate bowstids always cause me to finish before I am ready. and do not try to hold your breath because that just makes it worse, unable to hold your breath long enough to escape you always inhale a double lungfull of sulphuric fumes and shit molecules that hang so heavily in the air

I guess I've never been to a nice enough place to rate restroom attendants.
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Sorry, GGG.
My third job (I was still in high school) paid me $7/hr and the job I had in college paid just over $8/hr. Cost of living is different everywhere so it may seem like a lot to some people, but for others it's not enough to pay the bills.
I still think that being a bathroom attendant has to be crappy job. Having to sit there and smell people's ass fumes, clean up a bit after them, then notice how many don't wash their hands... eew.

Money is money, what people are willing to do for it can vary. I'd rather deal with other people's bullshit then their actual shit. Most places that have bathroom attendents, well they seem to not need it. Let's have bathroom attendants in hazmat suits standing by in bars. Ladies you know someone other then a friend to hold your hair and not pass judgement would be nice. And how about a quick solution to urinating on ones shoes when drunk? That would be really nice, that's a service i would gladly pay for, someone there to help me out of a potentionally embarassing bathroom incident.

Log blogger--in Milwaukee, attendants are in dance clubs, even the ones with cheap covers, probably just to keep the bathroom semi-clean through the night. (Can't wait until WI passes the NY can't-smoke-anywhere law, by the way.) You don't have to be rich to see one. But I can't stand being in there alone w/one when I have to poop. I end up holding it in, which is never a good idea.

I wish Doniker would figure out a way to "go undercover" as a restroom attendant for about a week and give us a diary of it.

Or if not Doniker, maybe SamDamnit would volunteer?

Shame that Tom Wolfe isn't a PoopReporter. He could really do justice to this topic.

no offence to restroom attendants, but that shit is creepy!

my boyfriend and i made an emergency stop at ikea in phoenix to take our THANKSGIVING shits.

he came out with this weird look on his face, and i asked him what was wrong. he said, "there was some dude lurking around in there! and when i was leaving he tried to hand me paper towels!!"

Ganja, nothing could be worse than the 150-year-old woman encountered by Vertical Grimace in the waning days of the Soviet empire.

Nothing, that is, except the lack of AB2K giving us her own mordant wit and "Dear ANNus" sensible advice in these pages.

I am a guy who worked as a restroom attendant in a ladies room for about a month. I was plainly identified by my my name tag and hotel logo. Only a few people seemed to be startled to see me (mostly older women).Tips were REALLY crappy! I made more $$$ working in the gift shop.

Cheesewhiz, tell us the name of the hotel that puts a guy in the ladies' room, so we can avoid it. Jeez! What is this country coming to?

And where is TSV when you need her?

Yeah, I'm trying to be less shameful, but there is just NO WAY I'm going to go about my business with some strange man outside the stall!

Although.....

I suppose the times I've gone at large outdoor events with rows of port-o-johns, there were any number of strange men outside THOSE stalls.

Aw, heck. C'mon in, Cheesewhiz!

I leave a tip if I poop. I try to be extra loud if a female is working. They ALWAYS grin after...♥...

Asphincter says WHAT...(!)

I've never come across one, and if I did, I'd have to wonder, why would anybody want a job like that.

Why leave a tip? You're the one that did all the work pushing out the turd, right?

Come to think of it, neither have I. Do they even have restroom attendants anymore? They're sort of like pay toilets and phone booths, virtually impossible to find. I am not a shameful shitter yet if I found a restroom attendant I'm not sure what I'd do. After all the tips given to waiters, bag boys, porters, etc, the last thing I want to do is have to tip someone for handing me a towel I can get myself.

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Born right the first time.

If they wanna come in and wipe my ass, I might consider a tip.

That would REALLY make me not want that job.

You're right Postman, that was a revolting thought. I got a little woozy just typing it.

Of course, everybody has a price. I might consider it if it was J Lo or somebody like that.

I'd pass on Cheryl-two-squares-per-shit-Crow. That ass crack must look like an African riverbed during the dry season.

There is no one whose ass I would want to wipe. I can barely tolerate wiping my own.

Me too, Logjam. Uh....somehow, that didn't come out right.

Now of course, swiping asses is a whole different matter. Speaking of which, where the fuck is that little foam crack, wonderpance?

I've seen her in the forums, briefly, but she has been very noticeably absent from the front page, with the quick exception in the infamous Dodger thread where she showed up just to gloat about how much trouble I was in. I'm gonna swipe her ass with a bandsaw next time.

Why not just file some "teeth" onto the edge of your Visa card.

Either way, sounds like you'll rip her a crack that will make Star Jone's look like the grin on the Mona Lisa.

Perhaps neither of you two gents are aware of Wedgie's Roller Derby Queen status.....her gluts are like hardened steel.

By the way, using old threads like this is kinda like breaking into an old abandon building and staging a hit-and-run keg party. No need to feel guilty or even clean up the mess afterwards.

For you maybe....I'm still in the doghouse, so, go ahead, have your fun, but think about me maybe a little, I will be the one cleaning up.

This is news to me. Is she aware that ever since I was a kid, I have enjoyed nothing more than buffing metal to a nice shine.

Your crime was staging a keg party in a NEW house without first getting a building permit.

In a posh hotel in York, the ladies toilets have not one, nor two, but THREE 'Cleanliness Executives'. Amazingly, they are not there to clean the toilets, nor to aid any latrine based emergency. These women are the toilet version of a Chanel counter girl.

As well as spraying any innocent person using the lav with old ladies perfume, they offer boiled sweeties from a large glass bowl (before you ask - the sweets have NO wrappers - just think of the shit-reminants on those bad-boys), then look snootily at the tip jar as you leave their shitablishment.

Think yourself lucky you have just one attendant, never mind a hole (forgive the pun) other job title going on.

N.B Really don't think it matters what sex the toilet attendant is. Unless they are actually watching you and your daily ablutions through a crack (sorry) in the cubicle, I don't think there's much to get perturb(turd)ed by.

In the 1974 book "Working" by Studs Terkel, people were interviewed their occupations. One of them was Lewis Hayward a washroom attendant:

“They come in. They wash their hands after using the service—you hope. (A soft
chuckle.) I go through the old brush routine, stand back, expecting a tip. A quarter
is what you expect when you hand the guy a towel and a couple of licks of the
broom. . . . The whole thing is obsolete.
It’s on its way out. This work isn’t necessary in the first place. It’s so superfluous. It
was never necessary. (Laughs.)"

The man must be a walking encyclopaedia of scatastrophies and porcelain achievements.

Imagine doing that for 30 years. Ugh.