I don't care if it's single ply. I just fold tp until it has the appropriate thickness anyway.
If it's single ply, I just use a lot of TP and make it many-ply.
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A friend asked me what the heck I am doing in my stall and I answered something like "Oh, just Re-Plying the toilet paper..."
I will still shit there. And if it takes more time because of the "shitty" condition they put me into, well, jokes on them
Jokes on you, we actually have ok toilet paper at work.
Believable, but doesn't explain why I work on commission and am still given single ply. I can't make much money while I shit, so at least let me do it comfortably.
I’d just bring my own roll.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who does this.
Bring a backpack. I keep real toilet paper in mine.
Just use more lol
Jokes on them I don’t have a choice if I’m pooping at work or not. The poop is happening.
I thought it was for flushability. That paper disintegrates almost instantly once it hits the water, I'm pretty sure that saves the money too by preventing clogs.
But it would make sense that it's for discouragement...
Some toilet paper is shitty before it ever touches an ass. I waste as much as I can.
IMO, they failed at both goals.
Be happy if you get single-ply paper. Some places have half-ply.
They probably want us grateful for one ply. Soon, they cut costs even more and just give us the raw unprocessed stuff, plywood.
Some places have recycled ply, aka re-ply.
My last job had cheap paper in the hourly employee restrooms and the comfy soft stuff in the salary areas. Why a multi-billion dollar company has to maintain a class system for it's workers I do not know but it was like that with everything.
It could be both, but be careful not to assume malice when apathy is much more reasonable.
Any thought they put into getting you to not poop on company time will run into the issue of it taking longer when you do anyway. Much more likely, they're just looking at hard numbers.
They see a number for facility costs, they see a way to make the cost number smaller, that's as far as their interest goes. "Make cost go down" is one of those simple motivations that can be directly linked to just about any managerial decision that doesn't instead connect to "Make revenue go up."
Me laughing at this.
I still drop duces at work and don't give a fuck. It's my third/fourth break of the day for me.
I use that stuff at home because we have old pipes and a bidet. Only need the TP to dry off anyway.
I've been told by multiple facility administrators that the main reason is to prevent toilet paper from being stolen. The shittier the paper, the less likely it's taken
This was it when I was in the military. Requisition the nice stuff? Joe's took it home.
Single ply? They break through with their fingers after 1/4 of the wipe, but I didn't have to order nearly as much of it.
Why not both?
I haven't worked anywhere that does this since about 1995.
I used to work field service. I would drive all around and fix machines. If i used the customers restroom, and they had single ply TP, or the auto-magic paper towel dispensor spit out 6 inches, i knew that company was a bad place to work.
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