Toilet Attendants - don't mind 'em or can't abide them?

Been in Sydney a good few years and you don't see that kinda carry on here, had forgotten how much of a dose they were

They've helped me out of a few sticky situations

Yeah its a bit annoying i mean for a start who wants to be hanging out in toilet ? Or even who wants some butler guy handing them paper to wipe there hands or whatever im mean wtf ! What if you got a fella into the cubicle with ya to tidy you up a bit ! There was one in the button factory when i was there last one in fibbers aswell else where too now that i think of it...
I dunno what story is with it maybe for guys trying to spruce up for the ladies if its that sort of place but i wouldnt want to be hanging out the jax !
I geuss its ok for them if the a few quid for it but its a bit of a rip off really i think then again my own hygeine is fairly low level

_Redzer_ wrote: »

I wouldn't tip them tbh. I can piss by my own accord so I don't really get why I should tip them.

That said, I never thought about that point about wrecking the jacks, I'd gladly welcome them everywhere if it meant avoiding the absolute muck some pigs can put them in.

That's definitely anyone's right, and it's a weird situation for so many reasons, but yeah, it generally does stop stupid things happening, depending on if the bar/club ever needed that.

keeponhurling wrote: »

In Netherlands/Belgium there is often a mandatory 50c charge to take a p!ss in pubs.

Be grateful in Ireland they are only looking for tips, which you can refuse to give!

Yes I remember that when living in Holland.

Pubs frequently only have two toilets, one male and one female. Poor wash facilities and they never ever have hot warm/water to wash your hands/

Made me appreciate facilities with multiple cubicles in Ireland more.

It's the little things you don't notice till you're abroad as they say.

I appreciate how sh*t a job it can be and they are doing it for a few quid so I don't really mind them. But since I have sufficient motor skills to wash and dry my own hands I don't tip.

murpho999 wrote: »

Yes I remember that when living in Holland.

Pubs frequently only have two toilets, one male and one female. Poor wash facilities and they never ever have hot warm/water to wash your hands/

Made me appreciate facilities with multiple cubicles in Ireland more.

It's the little things you don't notice till you're abroad as they say.

I always find that amazing about the EU's overriding, long stretching arm, but anyone who has drank in bars in Brussels (the home of the EU), there's a serious lack of quality in terms of facilities, including a number of pubs with no wheelchair access to toilets (i.e. toilets down a winding staircase). It seems the EU chaps don't look out their own windows at the city around them to often.

“No soap, no hope.”

“No splash, no gash.”

“Wash your fingers for de mingers.”

“No Armani, no punani.”

“No spray, no lay”

“No tissue, no issue.”

“No gum, no cum.”

“No money, no honeyz.”

Grayditch wrote: »

I know one bar who let the lad work in the jacks whenever he wanted and take whatever money he made home. Why? Cause lads didn't smash up the jacks while he was there.

Working in clubs for years now, I get to know the lads that work the toilets. They've been such sounds guys for the most part but from a punter point of view, I don't like the awkwardness at the sink I feel where the suggestion of a tip for something you don't really need is implied.

Rough job. Smelling P&S all night and some of the absolute rubbish I hear people talking to them. Must be all these lads have as an income and if it's a case of hiring them keeps the jacks in one piece, I can see the pros as well as the cons.

This is 100% correct.

We have a really popular student night in the club I work, so every week there was a broken toilet door, bowl or seat. Since we got in Toilet Attendants I don't think anything in the toilets have been broken. So 3 months without getting a broken door, isn't so bad.

They are paid by the club on quiet nights when they won't have made much in the way of tips. Not sure if they are on busy nights where they would have made a fair amount.

Personally, I think they're generally sound lads. But hate running into them in quiet places, it's awkward. If it's busy then it's generally grand.

TheBody wrote: »

I can't stand them. They turn off the switch to the hand dryers in my local to try and force people to use them. I usually turn it back on and dry my hands as usual. I'm not paying somebody a few yoyo for a sheet of kitchen roll every time I go for a hit and miss.

The guy in vicar street was pulling that crap when I was there a couple of weeks ago. I kept turning it back on to use it.

He muttered something to his mate that was with him when I went in the 3rd time about not botherung too when he made a move towards me to give me soap because I didnt tip him before.

No need for them. They're just intimidating and I don't need one at home to go to the loo and then wash/dry my hands.

I have absolutely no need for them. Not only do I know how to wash and dry my hands, but I actually do so whenever I use the toilet - unlike a large majority of men, I must say. I also don't need chewing gum, deodorant, or after-shave. However, I do appreciate that their presence generally makes the toilets a more pleasant place as they deter the extremes of drunken messing. I'll usually throw them a couple of quid at the start of the night and then politely ignore them for the rest of the evening.

I used to work as a loungeboy years back and one New Years' Eve I was asked to just stay in the toilets with a mop for the night to stop the toilets turning into something out of Apocalypse Now. I was annoyed as it's generally the best night for tips so they agreed to pay me extra to make up for it. I brought an ash-tray in with a few coins in it and just left it by the sinks. I made over £150 that night, which was even more than the girls with their short skirts made that night, only time a lad made more in tips than the girls while I worked there. I hardly even had to mop up as everybody managed to control their aim too.

Recently though I was out in a nightclub and on the first visit to the toilets the lad there started forcing paper towel into my hands, and then sprayed me without aftershave without asking. I was well pissed off, especially as I don't like the majority of aftershaves and this one was particularly rank. I could imagine him being decked by some lout for doing that. I'm also bemused at "hygienic" paper towels being handled by somebody else.

Alf Veedersane wrote: »

In all my years I've never actually been asked by one of them for a tip.

Happened to me in Diceys twice. Both times i said no but it was awkward.

I get that if you use their aftershaves or whatever you should tip but i never use them

When it originally started it pissed me off, but now I just ignore them.

The last time I actually had any interaction with one was about ten years ago in a night club in Ashbourne. Washed my hands, took the paper, threw in a euro, had a spray of lynx, went to pick up some aftershave and was told that was another euro, told him to go f*ck himself.