Bathroom War Crimes

How is it possible that grown men who can build a 70-tab model with 1,000 scenarios still manage to turn a bathroom into a literal crime scene?

I’m serious. We work in one of the most obsessive, detail-oriented, supposedly high-functioning environments on earth, and yet the men’s bathroom on every floor looks like it was used by a pack of raccoons during a liquidity event.

I’m not even asking for luxury. I’m not asking for spa-level cleanliness. I’m asking for the absolute minimum:

• Flush the toilet.
Aim like you’ve seen a bathroom before.
• Don’t leave paper towels all over the floor like you just walked out of a distressed asset.
• If you have explosive shits, at least have the decency to clean up after yourself.

The funniest part is the same guys who’ll spend 45 minutes tweaking an output tab to make the comps slide look prettier than the actual deal somehow develop selective blindness in the bathroom. Suddenly nobody knows how toilets work. Suddenly it’s chaos. Suddenly there’s no accountability.

This is Wall Street. We allegedly care about standards. We allegedly care about optics. We allegedly care about being “professional.” And then half the cubicles look like the SEC should be called in.

I’m not saying everyone has to be a saint. I’m saying if you can manage a live deal, you can manage a flush.

End of rant.

30 Comments
 
  • those who never wash their hands
    + those who only rise their hands
    + either groups- then touch your keyboard and eat a wrap
 

Legitimately used to work on a construction site and can tell you the 250lb sweaty steamfitter will leave the throne better-looking than the slick-talking analyst w/ a $250 haircut. I've seen what our cleaners bill us and don't blame 'em for a second

 

Trust you about as much as I'd trust the actual calvin coolidge. You sound retarded and it's obvious all your friends look the same (derogatory). You think an indian american or arab american is using the bathroom in a developed country the same way as an entirely different bathroom system in another country, just because they share the same ethnicity as them? As someone who's been to both regions, most regular people in cities there have actual sitdown toilets. Squat toilets/latrines are in impoverished households or villages. Also none of those things have anything to do with how clean you leave a bathroom. Anyone can choose to clean up after themselves or not. 

 

Raijin:

Trust you about as much as I'd trust the actual calvin coolidge. You sound retarded and it's obvious all your friends look the same (derogatory). You think an indian american or arab american is using the bathroom in a developed country the same way as an entirely different bathroom system in another country, just because they share the same ethnicity as them? As someone who's been to both regions, most regular people in cities there have actual sitdown toilets. Squat toilets/latrines are in impoverished households or villages. Also none of those things have anything to do with how clean you leave a bathroom. Anyone can choose to clean up after themselves or not. 


Coolidge was a huge winner. Pls fix.

 

I detect no lies... only unearthly smells

"If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 
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Bro I KNOW - HOW is it so bad? Like ur telling me my seniors who advise multimillion/billion transactions are pissing on the seat??? I always try to leave stalls better than I found them but this is impossible sometimes. It ASTONISHES me at how gross these bathrooms are; and mind you, this is not from bad tummy issues, that I understand and am compassionate towards tummy issues - it’s from people literally shitting and pissing on the FLOOR like what… HOW do you get to a senior position while treating the bathroom like a barn

The worst is when someone cranks it in the stall (and you can tell that they’re cranking it in the stall). Why do you pick the public restroom to crank the hog? I’m sorry but ur nerves are not that bad. We used to go to war; now guys are cranking it in the stall and pissing on the seats at desk jobs. For ducks sake pick another place to crank the hog!

 

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