Policy On Job Site Portable Toilets .

Driftwood

Most of our work is home repairs and renovations. Current one has been a year. Some ,only a few weeks. I have the customer pay the freight
about $72 per month in S. F. area plus pickup and delivery. Do some of you have a job time line,as to when you stop using the customers bathroom? Thank's PS Maybe this should have landed in the Bussiness forum

joasis

Anytime we have to be on a job site for more then a week, and the only choice is a customers rest room, we get a porta john....I have even considered building one like I see now at the State Fair...complete with hot water and flushing toilet...anyone else thinking about it?

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Tscarborough

I have spent the better part of 20 years designing a portable toilet that I would be comfortable using that will hold up to people who chit in the woods at home (obviously, going by how they treat jobsite toilets). So far, no luck, but I do have 3 features that are a great improvment on standard port-o-lets. Some day, I will be the jobsite toilet King!

mdshunk

I do know that I ask the GC, when bidding a job as a sub, what the toilet accomodations will be. Without permission to use the customer's toilet or a porta-potty on site, the price goes up. That's a given.

POOLMANinCT

interesting thread here.

1. under no circumstance do you ask the owner to use his bathroom
if its a # 2 id rather have them get in the truck & drive to mickkyD
home depot etc.

2. under no circumstances do you take a leak in the yard

get in the van close the doors & use an empty shock, antifreeze of gatorade bottle, cap & get rid of it at at days end

dougchips

Go to your local West Marine and buy a marine/camping crapper for the #2's. The #1's can go in a five gallon bucket. Be sure to secure the bucket before you drive off or the urine will make your trailer smell.

Mike Finley

I've never understood the mentality that contractors have of reducing themselves to animals or sub-humans by genuflecting and giving up the common use of a bathroom in a customers home. Basic human bodily functions are just part of life, what the hell is the big deal? I'm assuming crew members can attain at least a basic level of self-control and decency.

Every time I see these types of postings, I just can't help but be reminded of pre-civil rights days of white and colored restrooms. I think contractors need to emancipate themselves and stop considering themselves second class citizens or negro servants from the 30s who aren't worthy of the common decency of using a restroom.

mdshunk

If I'm on a service call, or a quick T&M job, I always ask the homeowner if it's okay if I use the bathroom. This is just a courtesty, because I do not expect anyone to say "no", nor has anyone ever said that it's not okay. I just ask to make it seem like I'm trying to be polite. If there's a GC on the job, and it's a T&M job, I ask, "Which bathroom are we using?" This subconsciously lets them know that I already know that at least one bathroom is okay for us to use, and I just need to know which one it it. It heads off the "don't use the customer's bathroom" response before it ever happens.

POOLMANinCT

another paert of my sub human reasoning stems from the fact, we are working under ground in water mud & concrete.. NOT ACCEPTABLE to be tracked through a home (yes we know how to wipe our feet, but we are knee deep) just one of my quirks i guess.

dougchips

Mike, a small percentage of the homes that we work in are dumps. I will wipe off the toilet seat when I am done (bad aim), but when I go in and there is piss all over the seat and pubic hairs I get scared. I will pick a clean bucket over a filthy bathroom any day.

We all know that your #2 does not stink but mine does and it stinks bad! My #2 does not belong in a customers home unless they are gone for the day. I don't even use the crapper in my office building.

Forry

Whew, Cpspool had me worried.... I've always asked to use the clients restroom, except on larger exterior jobs where I'd be tracking mud indoors. Then I order a portajohn. I don't mind using the bushes either, but we got women on the crew, and they seem to prefer accommodations.

dirt diggler

If you were my employee --- I'd FIRE you if I caught wind that you even asked my client to use the bathroom




This REALLY offends me & pisses me off


You have a "cut-off" time when you stop takin a sh*t in someone's bathroom??


you are not the only one to do this - in fact, i dunno --- i'd say most are gonna call me crazy

some of my clients even think I go too far on that (after explaining the No-Restroom policy)




It's pretty disrespectful I think ---- and about as UNPROFESSIONAL as it gets


might as well drive around in a beat up minivan with a ladder hangin out the damn back

POOLMANinCT

"some of my clients even think I go too far on that (after explaining the No-Restroom policy)"



so you actually discuss not pinching a loaf in the home at sales calls?

Forry

Wait... You'd FIRE someone for that? For that? Hah! You should meet my employees.

They kick a@#, at what they do, and I DON'T monitor they're interactions with the clients, I TRUST them, and our clients call us back to do more work,
over and over and over.....

Must be doing something right. Like being human. Personal. I like it.

dougchips

I need to go to bed but this thread is to good. #22 on my 'why choose our company list --unlike company *** who poops in your toilet and stinks up your house, we go #2 in our work trailer

Mike Finley

Maybe I needed to include common sense in that description too?

If you're covered with slime and sh!t obviously you don't even belong inside the house. If you need to take a huge dump, obviously that again falls into common sense.

Let me laser beam it so the confusion ends - talking about common sense stuff here. You're not covered in sh!t, not ready to take a dump that would give the customers new born brain damage because you ate 3 burritos for lunch. That's what I love about this forum the fact you have to have a 6 page legal disclaimer whenever you post.

Bottom line if you want to be treated like a 2nd class citizen in a situation involving common human decency, then go for it, don't complain about rich folks treating you like sh!t and wonder why, when you are creating the sub-servient sub human mentality yourself.

dougchips

So you are saying that 2 burritos and an average size (not huge) dump is ok?

Mike Finley

LOL, I shoud have seen that one coming.

dirt diggler

Forry,




My clients get put on a pedestal. Whether they deserve it or not

they get treated as royalty.

Shoes are taken off at the doorway.
Yes Ma'am, No Ma'am until we get to know eachother better
Mr./Mrs. AT ALL TIMES --- until they INSIST on me using first names
Pleases/Thank Yous
If offered water or small snack ... decline until they INSIST
If offered to use the restroom DECLINE. But say "no thank you"


And when they come home one evening and find you still working ... and INSIST that you stay for dinner.... Accept this invitation.



have some class

POOLMANinCT

this thread stinks lets flush it lol