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I assume you're talking about software engineers, because in every office I've worked in the toilets have been absolutely filthy by mid-morning.

At my current place there are boot marks on top of the toilet seat that have been there for weeks, put there by one of the 10 people in the company.

I think we can just apply the broken windows theory here. If whoever's responsible for the toilet doesn't demonstrate that they care about its state of cleanliness and repair, the people using the toilet won't care about that either.

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That seems hard to believe. I've been in many tech company offices around the US and they're usually fine.

Where is your office located? What are the national origins of your co-workers?

> That seems hard to believe. I've been in many tech company offices around the US and they're usually fine.

> What are the national origins of your co-workers?

Probably Indian or South Asian.

Look at how dirty they behave in their own community (Sunnyvale, California)

Meanwhile bathrooms and in nearby Cupertino, Mountain View and even San Jose are much cleaner.

There's tons of Indians in Cupertino and Mountain View as well, so I don't know what your comment was trying to prove, apart from openly displaying your prejudice and racism.

> At my current place there are boot marks on top of the toilet seat that have been there for weeks, put there by one of the 10 people in the company.

Are you complaining no one cleaned it up, including you? Or are you complaining that the company didn't get cleaning services?

I'm saying the presence of the boot marks make me less likely to clean up any mess I make in there.

> boot marks

"So, Inspector Lestrade, ..."

What worries you about the boot marks specifically?

Is this a serious question? Maybe people don't want to put their bare ass down on filthy bootprints.

He didn't didn't want to be the SECOND person squatting with boots!

Well that first guy didn’t want to put his butt where other guy’s butts have been, that’d be pretty gross.

Exactly.

People are asses. Don’t assume you know everybody’s history.

Maybe the guy is one legged and has to jump on the toilet seat to keep his balance.

More likely it's someone from India (or much less likely China) refusing to use the facilities as intended.

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