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KG

(28,752 posts) Thu Dec 19, 2019, 12:59 PM Dec 2019

basterds - Company invents sloping toilet to prevent workers taking long loo breaks

A start-up has come up with an innovative solution to prevent UK workers spending too long on the toilet.

The patented StandardToilet is a loo with a difference – featuring a sloping seat fixed at a downward angle of 13 degrees.

Retailing at between £150 and £500, the British Toilet Association (BTA) approved product is said to induce leg strain if you sit on it for more than five minutes – but “not enough to cause health issues”.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/toilet-prevents-long-loo-breaks-133118767.html

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basterds - Company invents sloping toilet to prevent workers taking long loo breaks (Original Post) KG Dec 2019 OP

Folks will just use the higher Ilsa Dec 2019 #1

Get one for Trump so he'll spend less time tweeting on the toilet. The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2019 #2

Even better... hunter Dec 2019 #3

WTF SunSeeker Dec 2019 #4

They say the main benefit is to employees in improved employee productivity. dixiegrrrrl Dec 2019 #5

It's for middle managers to report to the board that they got a 1% increase in something. Initech Dec 2019 #12

Rotten awful idea Mersky Dec 2019 #6

Just start crapping on the floor in front of the toilet Fullduplexxx Dec 2019 #7

+ 2naSalit Dec 2019 #18

Yeah, sounds like an ADA compliance issue Amishman Dec 2019 #8

The story is from the U.K. ADA doesn't apply outside of USA. N/T CottonBear Dec 2019 #15

not every terlet in a workplace has to be ADA KG Dec 2019 #17

Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That's why I poop on company time! Initech Dec 2019 #9

Feh. Nice try TlalocW Dec 2019 #10

And that's why no one worth a damn will ever work for that company. n/t Yavin4 Dec 2019 #11

My heart goes to the custodians of these Doreen Dec 2019 #13

What, an ejector seat was too difficult? nt coti Dec 2019 #14

Just one more bad management decision that will aggravate someone's Baitball Blogger Dec 2019 #16

Ilsa

(61,698 posts)

1. Folks will just use the higher

Reply to KG (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2019, 01:02 PM

Dec 2019

Toilet for wheelchair bound people.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,836 posts)

2. Get one for Trump so he'll spend less time tweeting on the toilet.

Reply to KG (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2019, 01:04 PM

Dec 2019

Do you have to flush them fifteen times?

hunter

(38,326 posts)

3. Even better...

Reply to KG (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2019, 01:09 PM

Dec 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet

SunSeeker

(51,690 posts)

4. WTF

Reply to KG (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2019, 01:09 PM

Dec 2019

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

5. They say the main benefit is to employees in improved employee productivity.

Reply to KG (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2019, 01:16 PM

Dec 2019

Bullshit....It is to EMPLOYERS in improved employee productivity.

Guess the employees can be thankful they get to take bathroom breaks at all.

Initech

(100,102 posts)

12. It's for middle managers to report to the board that they got a 1% increase in something.

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #5)

Thu Dec 19, 2019, 01:37 PM

Dec 2019

Which means us average joe employees are the ones that really suffer.

Mersky

(4,986 posts)

6. Rotten awful idea

Reply to KG (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2019, 01:22 PM

Dec 2019

People will probably get hurt. The manufacturer and companies that install these will be rightfully sued.

Fullduplexxx

(7,870 posts)

7. Just start crapping on the floor in front of the toilet

Reply to KG (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2019, 01:24 PM

Dec 2019

Say you slide off while going

2naSalit

(86,775 posts)

18. +

Reply to Fullduplexxx (Reply #7)

Thu Dec 19, 2019, 02:24 PM

Dec 2019

Amishman

(5,559 posts)

8. Yeah, sounds like an ADA compliance issue

Reply to KG (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2019, 01:25 PM

Dec 2019

The lawyers are chomping at the bit

CottonBear

(21,596 posts)

15. The story is from the U.K. ADA doesn't apply outside of USA. N/T

Reply to Amishman (Reply #8)

Thu Dec 19, 2019, 01:57 PM

Dec 2019

KG

(28,752 posts)

17. not every terlet in a workplace has to be ADA

Reply to Amishman (Reply #8)

Thu Dec 19, 2019, 02:23 PM

Dec 2019

Initech

(100,102 posts)

9. Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That's why I poop on company time!

Reply to KG (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2019, 01:29 PM

Dec 2019

TlalocW

(15,391 posts)

10. Feh. Nice try

Reply to KG (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2019, 01:30 PM

Dec 2019

I can take quick naps standing up and did so at my first corporate job where I started as a programmer on Monday but didn't get a computer until Thursday... and a monitor on Friday. Only so much reading the programming language books I could do without falling asleep at my desk, so I took quick naps in the bathroom stalls.

TlalocW