Employees Bring Own Toilet Paper to Work

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=817&e=7&u=/ap/budget_dirty_bathrooms

BUFFALO, N.Y. - It was BYOTP time in Buffalo: Bring Your Own Toilet Paper.



A county budget crisis left the bathrooms in a municipal office building with empty soap dispensers, paperless paper towel holders and bare cardboard toilet paper rolls. Employees also complained the bathrooms weren't being cleaned.

"It's almost humorous, but it's disgusting," said Bob Fioretti, who has worked in Erie County's Rath Building for 21 years.

"When people got to bring their own toilet paper and soap to wash their hands, it's like working in another country, a bad country," he told WGRZ-TV. Fioretti said there was waste piling up in some of the toilets.

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"The Building and Grounds Department has been cut severely," Montgomery told The Associated Press on Thursday. Besides losing money, the department has had layoffs.

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I spent time in a third-world nation and that's how it worked in the gov't buildings there.

:shrug:

I say it's artificial because the wealth in this country has been concentrated into as few hands as possible. This is overall still a very rich nation. Until and unless we find the will to grab the wealth back from the few, the many will continue to suffer.

The money keeps going from the bottom to the top. Roll back the tax cuts for the rich, get the hell out of Iraq, and spending billions on an immoral war, and put the money into social programs, and rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure.

Smirk and his band of criminals have done more damage to our country than I could have imagined, and I knew he would be a dreadful president. My big mistake was in thinking that after the SCOTUS handed him the victory after the election fraud in Fla, that our Democratic congresspeople would put up more resistance.

The same press who hounded Clinton, who handed us a budget surplus, and a good economy, could find no fault at all in what this miserable excuse for a leader does. I don't mind admitting I was wrong, I'm just sick about all the misery it's caused, and the further misery to come.

we are still a young nation and like other nations in there infancy's
we are going to face many interesting things. if you don't learn history you are damned to repeat it.

...on every corner. Guys who hang about with a small table or a tray that hangs from their neck, where you can buy a single cigarette and a packet of kleenex for a small bit of coin. They're all over the underdeveloped countries, and no one in their right mind goes anywhere without one of those little kleenex packs in one's pocket or purse, because if you don't have one, it's time to deploy the water hose and the hand (if you are in a country with a bomb site toilet, that is!).

B**h is sending this country down the toliet!

world apparently. I saw that on tv the other day, they did a study and they were talking about how it is better to scrunch your tp than fold it, less bacteria get through to your hands.

Just one more reason to vote Republican... Toilet paper will come trickling down any day now..."Prosperity is just around the corner" Hoover 1929

I just imagine toilet paper falling in great streams from offices high in the Empire State building. Toilet paper is just around the corner!

what a crappy story. Loved it.

Thanks for bringing us all the news that's fit to wipe.

(just kidding; you're awesome, UIA)
:smoke:

you'll just have to excuse my bathroom humor

:D

What is never mentioned is that the states have to pick up slack. Are they SURE carrying your own toiletries is better than payng more sales tax? And is it tax deductible?

:headbang:
rocknation

Fuckface wants everyone to literally shit in their pants like him.

"Why, over there they can't even get TOILET PAPER!!!"

See post #1.

:eyes:

late last year. There was a major "support our libraries" campaign that allowed them to remain open, but with cutbacks. It would appear that keeping the libraries was at the expense of public lavatory maintenance and sanitation. That part of the rust belt isn't recovering and having a whole series of unpaid mandates from Homeland Insecurity is savaging their budgets.

It's a sad sad world -- and there are many other metros on the brink of devolution into the 3rd world, too. They're just faking it better and still humming a bar or two.

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since he's always complaining about how the stuff supplied by the office building is like 40 grain sandpaper. :evilgrin:

What the fuck are we going to do without next???

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I remember reading the article over a year ago!

China IS getting ahead of us!!

A Beijing businessman has filed an application to trademark the Chinese name of US President George W. Bush to help market his disposable nappies. In Japan his image has already been used on toilet paper.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)



Image of Bush being used as toilet paper in China, Japan
Sunday, 08 February 2004 @ 11:57:30 EST

http://www.hypocrites.com/article16661.html

Link to original Yahoo story doesn't work - Not Found - (suprise)

:evilgrin:

PISS OFF.
02/22/2005 8:40:00 AM
Brussels
WHEN JOHAN VANDE LANOTTE, Belgium's Vice Prime Minister, goes to the toilets today, he finds the urinals in the offices of his ministry decorated with stickers. They show an American flag and the head of George W. Bush. "Go ahead. Piss on me," the caption says. Vande Lanotte is one of Bush's hosts in Brussels. Is peeing on your guest's head appropriate? In Belgium it is. After all, Brussels' best known statue is that of "Manneken Pis," a peeing boy.

The piss stickers, specially made to be used in urinals, can be seen these days in the public toilets of Belgian schools, youth clubs, and pubs. They were designed by Laurent Winnock, president of the Young Socialists, the youth branch of Vande Lanotte's Socialist party. Winnock did his creative work during his office hours, which would not be worth mentioning if Winnock did not work in the offices of Vice Prime Minister Vande Lanotte, as one of his press spokesmen.

Last Friday, Belgian television asked Robert "Steve" Stevaert, the Socialist party leader, what he thought of the stickers. It had not been his idea, he stressed, but he refused to distance himself from it. He hardly could, seeing as the stickers can be ordered for free through the party's official website. For Belgian television viewers the message was clear: Bush may be our government's guest, the ministers will greet him, smile and tell him that he is most welcome, but we all know what they think of the bastard
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/276vsdtv.asp

and I want some!

Ugh, they were on our local news last night. This is one of those things that we really can't blame on Bush. It's not even a Dem/Rep. thing. It's just government incompetence & mismanagement at its finest. We've got some real financial woes here in Erie County and our elected officials are just not getting the job done. The taxpayers are pretty much staging a revolt right now.

I feel very badly for the rank and file county employees. They are being jerked around and being treated as political pawns. Since they have been threatened with layoffs since December 1st, their morale is at an all-time low right now.

There's been a lot of finger pointing at the unions, but I really can't say they are the culprit. There's a lot of fat/pork buried in that budget and the county employees and the taxpayers are bearing the brunt of this.

Just a few examples:
County parks closed to the public December 1st. Parks employees still being paid (March 17). What the hell are they doing?

Three revenue producing auto bureaus, reduced to one with reduced hours.

Golf courses now to be run on a self-supporting basis. Why they hell weren't they self-supporting before. Cripes these people are stoopid.

Enough of my rant. Carry on!

As I understand a WBEN version of the potty problem it is partly due to vandalism by the ticked off county employees. They're plugging up the toilets w/the TP and doing some creative writing on the walls of the county executive's floor. I don't condone vandalism but sympathize w/them. I would certainly feel betrayed. The economy here is not going to be helpful to them either.

I can't believe the amount of pork and patronage that exists in this county. People in other counties and states should take this as a lesson.

I work in County Government in Illinois, and we have had our issues too. Recently, they took the paper towels out of the restrooms and put those damn air dryer things in.

I asked why they'd done that and was told it was because "You guys are using too much paper towel" My response was to ask if we needed to start re-using the toilet paper...

Little did I know that it was actually much worse in other places.


Laura

they take too long and they really make my hands dry and cracked in the winter; I think they would fall off were it not for that Norwegian formula handcream. :o

Wash hands.

Push button.

Rub hands together under air vent.

Wipe hands on pants.

I've done it before! :D

Full of warm, friendly people; overwhelmingly Democratic.

http://bush-removal.com/bs_toilet_paper.html

Send to:

Edward A. Rath County Office Building
95 Franklin Street
Buffalo, New York 14202

voters who they voted for.

Welcome to 1866.

You have to carry your own TP in some countries... and inside the filthiest of women's washrooms in a huge market place in Costa Rica there sits a man selling two squares of flimsy TP for the equivalence of a couple of cents; which you have to purchase whether or not you have your own. I'm sure that a bright forward thinking young fellow in this county can come up a similar operation in order to make a few bucks?

Vive le capitalism!!! </sarcasm>