More Public Employees Forced to Bring Own Toilet Paper to Work

Local government workers in the central Missouri town of Windsor (population: 3,000) have been forced to bring their own toilet paper to work, due to budget constraints.

City administrator Sandra Underwood was accused of instructing male public works employees to bring their own TP, claiming the workers were using far more paper than female employees. Underwood denied the charge.

The town’s mayor and aldermen only learned of the decision after a local citizen raised the subject at a council meeting, and suggested starting a fundraiser so the male workers wouldn’t have to pay for their own toilet paper.

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Windsor is not the first U.S. city to confront a toilet paper shortage in the month of March as a result of budget cutbacks. Last year it was employees of the Trenton, New Jersey, police department and City Hall who had to bring their own from home after city council members refused to approve a $42,573 order for toilet paper, toilet seat covers and paper towels. That shortage was solved by an emergency contract and a donation from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) of a six-month supply of TP that read “Wipe cruelty from your diet. Go vegan.”

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