Corporate worker’s toilet horror story sparks grim debate: ‘Situation is f–ked’

The corporate world can come with some wild shared experiences, but none seem to hit quite as hard as the shared bathrooms.

Regardless of whom you work for or where you work, the bathrooms can be where humanity comes to be its most distasteful.

For Harry Catanzariti, his tale from a former employer is potentially as grim as it gets.

“To be honest, I simply couldn’t believe someone had the ability to poo on the wall,” the 23-year-old told news.com.au. 

The Sydney man says in his corporate timeline he’s had “very few occurrences” where a toilet seat hasn’t had “sh*t on the seat.” 

“It’s ridiculous”

“I genuinely believe it’s because there isn’t enough fibre in these diets. Unless there is one serial sh*tter,” he said.

Catanzariti took to TikTok, claiming, “The corporate toilet situation is f***ed. It’s ridiculous. They need to start offering colonoscopies much earlier.”

What he was confronted with while at a past job seems not possible to achieve.

“Tell me why I walked in the toilet and someone sh*t on the wall. You know what type of f***ing maneuver you have to do to sh*t on the wall? Sh*t on the back side of the toilet.” he recounts.

“I couldn’t believe it. I was in disbelief. You know how busting you’ve got to be to sh*t on the wall.” 

“Keeps happening” 

His comment section proves he isn’t the only one with a horror story to tell.

“Every time I use the work toilets I realise my gut health is way better than I think it is,” one user commented.

“At my work, someone keeps picking their nose multiple times and wiping it on the cubicle wall. (Female bathroom). Work have sent out multiple emails, and it keeps happening. Not a large office either,” another revealed.

“I’ve walked into the office toilet to see a log casually floating in the bowl, by itself with no toilet paper,” a third said. 

Another added: “At my old work, not only was there diarrhoea constantly on the floor, but there was used pads as well and blood smeared on the walls. I had to go into shopping Centre toilets.” 

Elsewhere across the internet there’s treasure troves of corporate bathrooms seemingly housing a gate to hell.

Professional cleaner Fiona Morris, from Cleaning Collective Co, says that the bathroom tells a wider story.

“You can actually tell whether a company has a good culture by looking at the toilet,” Morris told news.com.au.

“I can 100 per cent say that toxic workplaces equal disgusting bathrooms because it’s where a lot of people go to hide and kill time.”

She says often it’s like an “adult daycare” – especially when businesses turn to signage to remind employees to maintain some decorum. 

“They have the most humans in it, infection control is at it’s highest, and quite often without the right dispensers and equipment, we can see a corporate office get out of hand very very quickly,” Morris said.

She thinks Aussies also need to think higher of the people who will come to clean the space up once they’re done.

“Australia still has a long way to go on cleanliness culture in a corporate and business environment. We also have a really long way to go in how we treat cleaning staff, because I don’t know who these people think is cleaning up after them, but it’s human beings,” she said.