Made up toilet attendants jobs

mrbnewc1

Not that I stand around in toilets for any longer than I need to, I ain't seen anyone actually given them money.

Don't know about anyone else, but I feel as if I shouldn't be in there when they are, as if they're doing me a favour by letting me use the toilet. Well guess what, I've already paid over the odds for a drink, so i'm going to have a wee if i want one without being hassled.

Move aside lady!..

ohmsoft

A friend of mine does this of an eveining 8-11 sat in a toilet and his only "pay" is two pints of beer (drank while sat in a loo!). I once commented that he must make quite a bit from the "tips" but he is adamant that no money is worth sitting in a toilet for!

dangeroussports

Some people must visit some right s**tholes marked up as clubs.

Some scummy clubs put toilet attendants in the lavatories to mimick the high class venues where toilet attendants are appreciated.

RadoJo

That is the worst this Dangeroussports - I kind of expect it in the higher end establishments, where the drinks are already way overpriced and you are getting fleeced just walking in the door, but the place which prompted this thread was a pub in St Albans - just a pub, with a music venue bit at the back, and barely enough room for a customer to comfortably manoevre around the grafitti strewn loos, let alone trying to avoid the clutches of the hovering attendant. Maybe that's why there were no loo seats to be seen - a space saving excercise.

Ohmsoft - I can't think what kind of job I would have to have to accept two pints of toilet beer as payment.

WKD-Lauren

podiluska wrote: »

Bog Trolls! I hate them.

seconded! especially when most of them dont even cean up loo roll from the floor etc just tryn flog lollies & make you obliged to give them £ grrrrrrrrrrr

seven-day-weekend

RadoJo wrote: »

As the OH of a musician, I often find myself in pubs and clubs that I wouldn't necessarily choose to frequent in support of his band. It is bad enough that I occasionally have to stand like Billy-no-mates when the other WAGs are AWOL, but I have noticed that a lot of places seem to be employing a person (or possibly just allowing this person) to stand in the toilet with perfume and sweets all over the place, pass you a towel, and expect money!

What I don't understand is how can this really be justified as a job? For my entire life (bar a couple of years of infancy) I have been able to wash and dry my own hands, and have rarely felt the need to consume a lolly-pop whilst in the ladies. Last week my OH came out of the mens looking confused and told me that the guy in there had reached across him whilst he was washing his hands to get a paper towel to hand to him when he had finished, then expected a tip!

I never give in to the customary British urge to tip just because it is expected, and as a result have been called 'tight' and have various eye-rolling gestures made at me by people of this occupation and on one occasion (a couple of years ago admittedly) the woman refused to let me dry my hands because I hadn't tipped her all night - she actually stood in front of the towels! I assume she thought I would cave, and hadn't reckoned on me just drying my hands on the insides of my pockets (what are they there for after all?!) but she genuinely felt aggrieved that I didn't require her 'services' and resented being expected to pay for them.

I am all for people being inventive when it comes to job hunting, but surely this is just a relatively polite form of extortion - people do feel obliged to tip, despite the clearly nonsensical nature of the job, but I don't understand why clubs and pubs either hire or at least allow people to do this?

Can't say I've ever been in a bar like this (my husband did gigs in bars tooo, we must have frequented really low-class dives!) but I wouldn't tip either, I think it is extotion.

Carry on with the good work!

fjeer

Yep almost all places I go to have this. However I usually just have a bar tab anyway so I just say 'sorry, paying by card, I have no cash' and they generally buy it.

Oh and never accept their stuff. Just take your own towels.

bluejake

The bog troll thing is much worse abroad. I was at a urinal taking a p1ss and the bog troll comes up from behind, stands up close to me and starts massaging my shoulders. I p1ssed down my leg with the shock.:eek:

We can do without this sort thing England. Don't tip them and the bog trolls will magically disappear, give 'em a pound and they will multiply.

Count_Dante

Given that nobody actually likes what bog trolls do, why do pubs and clubs employ them? Somebody suggested it was to keep people from using/taking drugs, but why do they need to be so completely annoying?

RadoJo

Sometimes I wonder whether the clubs do hire them, or whether they just grow in the loos and spend their lives trying to get enough money to support their existence in daylight hours.

Am glad that I have never had enforced help with actually using the facilities (bluejake- that sounds lovely!) but I wish they would at least whistle to provide a bit of background noise when you are the only one in there and you get the feeling they're waiting for you to get started!