Topic: EPA Employees Told to Stop Pooping in the Hallway

[Pandora]

Stop "placing" feces ...

... Management for Region 8 in Denver, Colo., wrote an email earlier this year to all staff in the area pleading with them to stop inappropriate bathroom behavior, including defecating in the hallway. 

In the email, obtained by Government Executive, Deputy Regional Administrator Howard Cantor mentioned “several incidents” in the building, including clogging the toilets with paper towels and “an individual placing feces in the hallway” outside the restroom.

Confounded by what to make of this occurrence, EPA management “consulted” with workplace violence “national expert” John Nicoletti, who said that hallway feces is in fact a health and safety risk.

An "expert" had to be consulted to confirm poop in the hallway is a health and sanitation issue?  What if the "expert" had pooh-poohed it as no big deal?  Would Region 8 management have decided the issue wasn't worth addressing?

I swear, some days ........

[Alphabet Soup]

I swear most days ........

 

[ToddF]

I snarked on that, also, but to be fair, the expert is a doctor of psychology, and really is an expert on what kind of people go boom in the workplace.  I think it's just poor writing, by the journotard.

Surprisingly enough, the workplace expert sees a chance of escalating behavior, from someone pooping in the hallways, today.

In my particular workplace, a notice was stuck in our bathroom wall over Christmas, to have a care, and not mess it up.  I asked maintenance what the sign was about, and he said someone was throwing their poo all around, messing up everything.  It was guessed that it was one of the temps that came on around Christmas, when our workplace become more...diverse, shall we say.

[Alphabet Soup]

Did I ever tell you my "pooping in the workplace" story? (I don't want to repeat myself).

[Pandora]

Did I ever tell you my "pooping in the workplace" story? (I don't want to repeat myself).

"I do not recall that".

Tell us, please.

[benb61]

Did I ever tell you my "pooping in the workplace" story? (I don't want to repeat myself).

"I do not recall that".

Tell us, please.

Yes, PLEASE do tell.

[Glock32]

Considering it's the EPA, I figured maybe they had a collection bin in the hallway for proper eco-friendly disposal and organic fertilizing. Can't waste water, ya know.

[AlanS]

Did I ever tell you my "pooping in the workplace" story? (I don't want to repeat myself).

 

[Glock32]

[richb]

Only the government would hire an expert to tell them that pooping in the hallway is bad............

Talk about issues if you can't keep people from pooping in a hallway.   

[Pandora]

Only the government would hire an expert to tell validate for them that pooping in the hallway is bad............

Talk about issues if you can't keep people from pooping in a hallway.

That's what I'm sayin' ......

[AmericanPatriot]

Does Charlie Brown work there?

I remember in the song "who's always pooping in the halls?"

[ChrstnHsbndFthr]

Did I ever tell you my "pooping in the workplace" story? (I don't want to repeat myself).

 

Yeah, buttered my popcorn, got the big drink, bathroom check....waiting for the show....enjoying the previews of future attractions.....waiting...waiting....gonna have to get the free refill on the popcorn!

[AlanS]

On a side note, I guess working at the EPA must be a crappy job.

[LadyVirginia]

On a side note, I guess working at the EPA must be a crappy job.

 

[ToddF]

I don't suppose anyone wants to hear details of when I had to clean some #2 out of the #1 receptacle, back in my theater days, or better yet, what happened when the 300 pound rent a cop used our facilities to relieve himself?

I'm game if you are.   

[AlanS]

I don't suppose anyone wants to hear details of when I had to clean some #2 out of the #1 receptacle, back in my theater days, or better yet, what happened when the 300 pound rent a cop used our facilities to relieve himself?

I'm game if you are.   

But did you have to clean it out of the halls?

If not, they must not have been government employees.

[Pandora]

I don't suppose anyone wants to hear details of when I had to clean some #2 out of the #1 receptacle, back in my theater days, or better yet, what happened when the 300 pound rent a cop used our facilities to relieve himself?

I'm game if you are.   

I believe I just read all the detail I care to, thank you.

No offense.   

[ToddF]

I don't suppose anyone wants to hear details of when I had to clean some #2 out of the #1 receptacle, back in my theater days, or better yet, what happened when the 300 pound rent a cop used our facilities to relieve himself?

I'm game if you are.   

But did you have to clean it out of the halls?

If not, they must not have been government employees.

Rowdy junior high kids on a Friday night.  I'll spare you any more details.

[trapeze]

On a somewhat related note...

One of the joys that you can expect in our new "new" America is the south of the border toilet etiquette. If you haven't personally experienced this (and you will...it's only a matter of time), please allow me to enlighten you.

It seems that just about the entire population that lies to the south of the Rio Grande has been trained since birth to NOT put paper in toilets. And that would be the ones who actually are trained to even know what a toilet is. For those who are instead used to a hole in the ground, well, things are sorta worse. But anyway...these amigos come to America and bring this interesting "habit" of not putting paper in the toilet. It seems that the "sewer" systems that are available in Central and South America cannot handle paper. Or at least the inhabitants of these places believe it to be so. In my youth (say about 25 years ago) I first experienced this in a workplace that employed several dozen amigos. Management dealt with this by essentially surrendering to the amigos way of life and placing a small wastebasket next to each toilet to hold the very well used toilet paper. It made using the restroom a very unpleasant experience for all of us non-amigos but, hey, diversity.

BTW...very funny article on the EPA poop situation.

One other thing...I have to believe that sooner or later the EPA will get serious about this investigation, do a DNA analysis of a hallway turd and then attempt to match it up to an employee. That said, a truly diabolical (and seriously deranged) poop bandit would figure out a way to obtain and distribute third party poop to frustrate a scientific investigation approach. Escalation? It really does beg the question as to just where you do go from pooping in the hallways.