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Toilet attendants & racism

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  • #32
    CorkMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭CorkMan


    I heard for €3.50 he'd wipe your hole and give it a sprinkling of soap and warm water.


  • #33
    Dick Turnip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 992 ✭✭✭Dick Turnip


    KINGVictor wrote: »
    Lol...Be serious like he/she cares. Actually how much are those jobs going per hour?

    Used to work in a late night bar in Dublin. I remember the manager considering getting them in as they didn't have to pay them. What ever cash he gets he keeps that's how he gets paid.

    The managers main reason for considering it was so that it would act as a deterrent for drug use in the jacks.


  • #34
    Miss Dymph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭Miss Dymph


    Racism is never acceptable, being from a different country and part of the world is never a reason to hate on someone. However.... its FAIR annoying when you can feel the attendant looking at you washing your hands knowing that she holds in her hands the only method of drying your hands. its weird... i dont wanna dry my hands with something someones been clutching the whole time ive been washing anyway. But truly the nightclubs etc need to sort a system cz its not the employees fault that their job description is so damn irritating but its definitely our fault for allowing racism


  • #35
    Hunchback
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,629 ✭✭✭Hunchback


    dunno bout the rest of the country, but they seem to have died out in galway over the last few years. thank f***


  • #36
    previous user
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭previous user


    AgileMyth wrote: »
    I really really hate places with toilet attendants. I'm more than capable of drying my hands without assistance.

    They're there to dry your hands?


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  • #37
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,125 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    Tesco Massacre wrote: »
    I was in the toilets of a bar last night and some little (emphasis on 'little'- he was about 5'6") scumbag had finished washing his hands and said to the attendant, 'here, ni**er, give me some fu**in' paper towel'.

    I have to commend the attendant who looked like he was about to level the little twat, but he kept his cool and walked out rather than start a fight.

    I wonder if this sort of thing is a common occurrence in the toilets of pubs & clubs around the country?


    Ah here. That's a bit racist of you now. You're assuming that all toilet attendants are black.


  • #38
    The Scientician
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,724 ✭✭✭The Scientician


    Nicole Swift Overlap wrote: »
    Defo,i remember one night sitting in takeaway 3 in the morn with friends who wanted grub,whilst rest of place busy stuffing its face and generally leaving their fast food rubbish all over the place whilst this chinese worker was busy cleaning up the tables.

    Howl on a sec now. What's this got to do with racism? I know the fast-food model supposedly works on customers cleaning up after themselves but really if you've paid for food in a fast-food joint with tables you're under no obligation to clean the table after yourself.


  • #39
    The Scientician
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    Chris P. Bacon wrote: »
    Who wants to eat sweets that have been sitting in a toilet all night!

    Where do you keep your toothpaste?


  • #40
    Storminateacup
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,424 ✭✭✭Storminateacup


    Jesus Christ, will ya'll calm down with the racisim obsession


  • #41
    golgi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39 ✭golgi


    The Scientician wrote: »
    Where do you keep your toothpaste?


    ha...excellent point


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  • #42
    saywhatyousee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭saywhatyousee


    I love the toilet attendants,its pretty handy you can get gel,aftershave,lollypops,condoms,(all essential for the proper night club experience)


  • #43
    Toots
    Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 17,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭Toots


    The Scientician wrote: »
    Where do you keep your toothpaste?

    In a sealed tube in the medicine cabinet, not in a filthy public toilet where god knows who has been mauling it.


  • #44
    Needler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 753 ✭✭✭Needler


    saywhatyousee wrote: »
    I love the toilet attendants,its pretty handy you can get gel,aftershave,lollypops,condoms,(all essential for the proper night club experience)

    you shave in the nightclub?


  • #45
    saywhatyousee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭saywhatyousee


    Needler wrote: »
    you shave in the nightclub?

    Everyone has their fetish's:o:o


  • #46
    policarp
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    CorkMan wrote: »
    I heard for €3.50 he'd wipe your hole and give it a sprinkling of soap and warm water.

    Douchay.


  • #47
    mardybumbum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭mardybumbum


    CKonetheonlyone wrote: »
    dunno bout the rest of the country, but they seem to have died out in galway over the last few years. thank f***

    Haven't gone away yet.
    I was in C5 last night and the toilet attendent informed me that I needed to "wash my toes, to get them hoes".
    Now, why he assumed my feet were dirty or that I was interested in a "hoe" is beyond me. It must be a vibe I give off.


  • #48
    Chucky the tree
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,320 ✭✭✭✭Chucky the tree


    Toots* wrote: »
    In a sealed tube in the medicine cabinet, not in a filthy public toilet where god knows who has been mauling it.


    I've never seen them offer sweets that aren't in a wrapper.


  • #49
    Toots
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    Chucky the tree wrote: »
    I've never seen them offer sweets that aren't in a wrapper.

    I've been to a few places where they had a bowl of mints, you know those little round white ones, I think they're imperial mints or something, but they don't come in a wrapper. Didn't seem to bother a lot of people though :(


  • #50
    SuckMyGuitar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭SuckMyGuitar


    Black people working as toilet attendants to serve white people is the height of racism. It's like being back in the 1700s.


  • #51
    PseudoFamous
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    SuckMyGuitar wrote: »
    Black people working as toilet attendants to serve white people is the height of racism. It's like being back in the 1700s.

    Nobody is forcing them to work there. In fact, they're doing it voluntarily: they offer the manager that they attend the bathroom, simply in exchange for the tips. The tips are extremely generous, a friend of mine's brother says he earns €30-€50 an hour on Friday night.


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  • #52
    WindSock
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    I don't really mind them so much, I chat to them when they seem bored, I like chatting to accessible people, not because I am over compensating for my own racism.


  • #53
    Chucky the tree
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    SuckMyGuitar wrote: »
    Black people working as toilet attendants to serve white people is the height of racism. It's like being back in the 1700s.


    I think telling black people what jobs they can or can't do is alot more racist.


  • #54
    Disleksic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41 ✭Disleksic


    SuckMyGuitar wrote: »
    Black people working as toilet attendants to serve white people is the height of racism. It's like being back in the 1700s.

    You're absolutely correct, pub toilets in 18th century Ireland were renowned for the number of black people working in them. :rolleyes:


  • #55
    policarp
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    mardybumbum wrote: »
    Haven't gone away yet.
    I was in C5 last night and the toilet attendent informed me that I needed to "wash my toes, to get them hoes".
    Now, why he assumed my feet were dirty or that I was interested in a "hoe" is beyond me. It must be a vibe I give off.
    You must be a Muslim Mardy bumbum. . .:p


  • #56
    mikemac
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    SuckMyGuitar wrote: »
    Black people working as toilet attendants to serve white people is the height of racism. It's like being back in the 1700s.

    Did anyone force them to take the job?

    And yeah, I've done hotel porter jobs and mopping up toilets and vomit at the end of my shift. I earned a little over minimum wage, the blacks in the jacks most likely earned more then me in tips alone

    But the guy in there, he wasn't paid. He made money with his products and his tips. Management loved it as staff in there to watch for trouble but didn't have to pay


  • #57
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    SuckMyGuitar wrote: »
    Black people working as toilet attendants to serve white people is the height of racism. It's like being back in the 1700s.

    I've worked in a few bars/clubs who've had African toilet attendents and without exception those attendents have worked there on their term's.

    They've offered a service to the premises, they're not hired by management and again without exception on an hourly basis they've been the highest earner's on a given night.

    As regards drugs & trouble, its nothing to do with them if someone is taking drugs. Of course if there's trouble they'll report it like anyone else will, mostly its stupid stuff like someone has taken a squirt of one of their products without paying.. There's no way they'd know if someone is in a cubicle doing a line, and they'll treat like its none of their business anyhow.

    Personally I avoid drinking anywhere there's a toilet attendent, after a lorry load of Guinness I want to sit on the thrown and do my business in peace.

    Racist - nah, they're just taking us for f*cking idiots.


  • #58
    mackg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    Toots* wrote: »
    I've been to a few places where they had a bowl of mints, you know those little round white ones, I think they're imperial mints or something, but they don't come in a wrapper. Didn't seem to bother a lot of people though :(

    Mints would be useful to people who have been puking.


  • #59
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,917 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    I've only seen one non black toilet attendant and that was in Dundalk about 10 years ago


  • #60
    Ush1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,484 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    helimachoptor wrote: »
    I've only seen one non black toilet attendant and that was in Dundalk about 10 years ago


    Plaza in Tallaght always had an Irish aul fella.


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  • #61
    Magic Beans
    Closed Accounts Posts: 329 ✭✭Magic Beans


    They are not in it for the money, they only do the job so that they can laugh at white men's little willies.


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