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Mon Apr-04-11 11:23 PM
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Sign on a Chicago borders, going out of business |
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Tue Apr-05-11 02:23 PM
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3. Seems like kind of a dick-ish thing to do |
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I realize that online retailers, among other things, contributed to their demise - but being a functional business, they obviously HAD bathrooms at one time. Did they close them just so they could make this sign?
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Tue Apr-05-11 02:54 PM
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4. This is a dick-ish country |
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And getting more-so by the day.
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Tue Apr-05-11 02:59 PM
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(a different Borders to be clear) we were only required to provide restrooms when we had the coffee/snack stuff. Before then--no restrooms (although we let people with little-kid-emergency-potty situations use our bathroom in the back room). Maybe they ended the coffee stuff early and so don't need to provide restrooms anymore. I wouldn't blame the staff for not wanting to clean public restrooms--I still have flashbacks about what our customers did to ours. :scared: :puke:
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Tue Apr-05-11 03:00 PM
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I don't understand why people can't take care of public restrooms. Or at least not make them any worse.
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Tue Apr-05-11 03:02 PM
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7. It was an effin horror show |
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It got so bad that we went on an informal strike about it--flat-out refused to clean them and threatened to call OSHA. The asswipe manager backed down faster than we ever expected him to and hired a cleaning service.
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Tue Apr-05-11 03:09 PM
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8. Of course, there is the flipside, of business owners |
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who let their bathrooms go to hell - never fixing toilets when they quit flushing - no TP or Paper Towels, stalls that won'e close - or are missing altogether because Van Damme kicked them down, etc
I was in a rough part of Memphis several years ago (out on Lamar ave) when a bathroom emergency hit me - we pulled into a pretty good sized convenience store, but their bathrooms were in a separate building.
I opened the door, and the light would not come on - and I"m not going in the dark - not in this part of town - I basically had to just stand in the doorway and piss in the floor drain to avoid pissing myself.
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Tue Apr-05-11 11:13 PM
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9. It isn't necessarily that they don't maintain them. It is certainly, as I have |
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far too often seen it, that the general public steals the tp and the paper towels on a wholesale basis. I mean all of it, all the time, every day. They also use a coin or perhaps bring a screw driver and remove screws from the latches, the hinges, anything. They leave the water running. They steal the light bulbs, or anything else in there. So after a while, guess what? dc
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Wed Apr-06-11 01:59 PM
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13. Yeah, I guess you're right |
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I didn't think one step farther, to the fact that any maintenance that needs to be done is probably the result of a customer.
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Tue Apr-05-11 11:24 PM
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10. My local Borders is shrinking the store from back to front... |
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Edited on Tue Apr-05-11 11:24 PM by Iggo
...as their inventory is depleted. The back of the building is where the restrooms are. The restrooms are now closed to the public. They put up a sign to tell people there are No Restrooms. I'm assuming the people at the store in the OP did the same thing, just a little funnier.
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Wed Apr-06-11 09:45 AM
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Edited on Wed Apr-06-11 09:46 AM by Brickbat
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Wed Apr-06-11 03:05 PM
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14. Since Borders et al put small local bookstores out of business |
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I find it difficult to muster much sympathy that someone bigger came along and did the same to them. Same with Blockbuster whining about Netflix.
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