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Hind(i) Signs

Posted 12.07.2007 by Dave (11451)
It's been just over a month since I started working at my company's office in New Delhi. I haven't paid much attention to the bathrooms here at the office -- they haven't seemed particularly clean nor particularly dirty. Considering that fifty men share two urinals and a toilet, I figured they were about as good and as bad as you could expect.

Some of my coworkers, however, seem to feel differently. I came into work today to discover these signs plastered around the bathrooms -- men's and women's both. Compare this to the typical "if you sprinkle when you tinkle" sign you'd see in an American bathroom. What conclusions can we draw about the Indian attitude towards waste and filth, as compared to our own?

Hi There... My Name is Miss Tissue... One of the many sanitation Experts...

I Know I am beautiful and so clean you don't want to dirty me. But than That's Me... I AM MADE TO BE DIRTY.

And Ya. Once you make me dirty, I would like to die in the dustbin... Wouldn't you Complete MY LAST WISH???

You Can't be that bad at Targeting. PLEASE PUT ME INSIDE THE DUSTBIN...

Please Clean Up after USE... The NEXT Person to visit this toilet Might be YOU!!

12 Hours!!! Half of our Life in a day is spend in the office. Let's Spend it CLEAN... HYGIENE for EVERYONE... EVERYONE!!!

And just because you're curious, here is the stall we're dealing with:

How would you deal with these problems at YOUR office? What does this teach you about the culture here in Delhi?

daphne (3202) -- 12.07.2007

Who's the office gossip? This person would certainly know the dealio about the signs. Maybe they've been put up before.

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The Thunderous ... (624) -- 12.07.2007

Wow Dave now THAT is one clean crapper! I am amazed because I work with a LOT of people of Indian descent and I have to tell you their personal hygiene BLOWS! From the stale armpit smell to that crap they chew that smells like rubbing alcohol OMG and lest I forget the smell of an unwashed ASS. Yes I am very shocked that the toilet is so very clean. That is ONE VERY CLEAN TOILET and it just goes to show what I have been saying all along if you respect each other and the desire for a clean toilet then you will always have a nice clean crapper. KUDOS!
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The Thunderous Crapper 63 Enjoying home toilet advantage since 2004!

Plunder (26) -- 12.08.2007

Seriously that is MARVELOUSLY clean compared to what I was imagining. Count your lucky stars!

Some Indian people (yes plural by a lot) in my office over the years have been sent notices from HR: wash up or the company will "take corrective measures." The mass emails were presumably sent because of all the complaints.

Once I saw a festering empty carton of milk at someone's desk. It had turned black on the inside. Still, he seemed puzzled when I asked him to throw it away. All that putrefaction and it hadn't occurred to him to get rid of it.

Imagine that! Maybe all it takes is a couple of signs and hey, maybe it IS nicer if we keep the facilities clean, we didn't think of that...

daphne (3202) -- 12.08.2007

Dave, could all this be due to the fact that they are aware there are now Americans in the workplace and your reputation (plural - as Americans) has preceded you? Or, could they be aware you're Mr. Poop in the internet and want to impress you?


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www.daphneszoo.com

Gaseous Glay (84) -- 12.08.2007

I only wish that was my stall at work. What an amazing concept: privacy while crapping. Why can't we have real doors and walls like the Indians?

Turdle Dove (82) -- 12.10.2007

Your experience with toilet behavior was very different from my summer job as a legal intern in Mumbai last year. It was one of India's biggest corporate firms. They had to buy toilet paper for me, because the entire office was Indian and used the little spout and bucket thing. Same thing in the hotel I stayed at.

Thunderbox (706) -- 12.10.2007

It`s surprising how many countries have toilets that can flush away turds, but don`t allow any paper at all to go in the pan.

Always has to be put in a little plastic basket on the floor. That must be a crappy job - having to empty those baskets, specially after some western guys have been million wiping with Delhi Belly.

Deja Poo (590) -- 12.10.2007

Yeah, that's a clean turder, especially since it's shared with 50 other men.

Am I being dense? The Indians don't flush their asswipe? Instead they throw it in the trash can?
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Yo quiero Taco Bell.

Mary Queen of Scats (387) -- 12.11.2007

They give directions for using the bathroom as well as they give directions to help me figure out why the power button on my laptop doesn't work.

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Merry feeking Christmas and a crappy New Year to all!

Clownshoes (not verified) -- 12.13.2007

i could'nt help but notice that on the 3rd last photo there is a yellowishbrown satin on the paper above the button, is it what i really think it is?? did some poor soul get some on their fingers due to bad toilet paper integrity, and then wipe their fingers off on the sign, in a desparete attempt to protest the poor quality of of TP??
???

Snapper (155) -- 12.14.2007

Why is that dog in the toilet?

Fart Poopie (1256) -- 12.14.2007

Is that a pack of cigarettes next to the toilet paper and a wad of gum on the floor?
For shame...

poopcrayon (69) -- 01.06.2008

what is the cord that goes from the wall to the toilet? is that for a bidet?

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all aboard the farty train to pooterville..if you can't shit at my house, we aren't friends

Poonanza (52) -- 03.26.2008

We had bidets in The Middle East when I was there. In our own little Cadillacs out on the line, too. I guess they're so common over there that I wouldn't be suprised to find one in the portajohn.

I think the TP thing is because TP nettles up in the pipes and clogs, but poo disintegrates. In the house I'm moving out of in two days (thank god), you can't flush paper, his toilet is quite weak. It can only handle one guy. The 4 of us are too much for it, it's always clogging and I have to go in the yard. We hang up walmart bags on the TP dispenser (empty most of the time. Have to use either shop towels or paper towels. Or an empty roll, use your imagination. I even had to reach into the bag to get my old peice! I knew it was mine though, I'm the paper towel bandit.) to toss in our paper. It becomes second nature when you get used to it. I can't wait to move out :(

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