The bathroom walls are not a community bulletin board

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

NOTICE:

The fact that out store does not have a community bulletin board posted in the entrance vestibule, or anyplace else for that matter, DOES NOT entitle you to create your own in the bathrooms.

Which means the bathroom walls are not the place for you to proclaim a certain part of your body is "huge", or advertise your side business of performing certain sexual favors out of your car (yes, these both have happened in our men's bathroom).

Nor are they for broadcasting your hatred for people of ethnicities different from your own, as one of our many local dry-pool diving team members did today with the following message: "DIE (ethnic slur for hispanics) AND (ethnic slur for asians)".

I was the poor schumck who got stuck cleaning that off of the stall wall. Fortunately, it was in ball-point pen so it was easy to clean up. Fortunately, I guess the author wasn't secure enough in his racism to use a Sharpie.

[Imogene]

Note to self: Bright pink Sharpie makes no one take your racism seriously.
It's permanent, however, unless painted over.

[katie kaboom]

i once found this little gem written on the wall in one of our fitting rooms....
"i hump hippos"

[ladylabyrinth]

Note to self: Bright pink Sharpie makes no one take your racism seriously.
It's permanent, however, unless painted over.

Juwl, have I mentioned yet that you're my hero?

Also, the bright pink is only effective if surrounded by hearts and anime style smileys, like: ^_^

[Kitten in the box]

In our men's room its real bad. Not only do we have people doing size comparisons on their things they even draw a diagram for you. A few months back their were 3 things drawn on the stall walls. The artist drew the size for 4 different ethnic groups (Asians, Whites, Hispanics, African Americans) He then labled them from biggest to smallest.

We have had oral requests in the mens room. Not to often but we have had them.

We have even had our own little "gang wars" in there. The Reds bashing all over the Blues etc and vice versa. I don't even bother cleaning the walls anymore because A) It will all be back the next day.
B) My workplace is in the Red (norteno) area and they frequent our bathrooms alot. We had one guy THREATENED because he cleaned off and old tag belonging to one member that wrote it down. They said it was "disrespectful"

The women's room I will clean up because the only people that go in there are the homeless ladies to get cleaned up and to use the restroom and normal girls/women. Occasionaly we get a gang banger female but we get it cleaned off because usually her tag is written in lipstick or ball point pen.

[powerboy]

B) My workplace is in the Red (norteno) area and they frequent our bathrooms alot. We had one guy THREATENED because he cleaned off and old tag belonging to one member that wrote it down. They said it was "disrespectful"

Like tagging is not? I don't get the whole tagging bit whats-so-ever. They get pissed if someone writes on their stuff, but they do it to other peoples. We once had a guy use our restroom, and he tagged it. I know it was him, because I was in there just before him. And after he left, I had to go back in to wash my hands, since I put my hand in something sticky. We banned him after that.

[XCashier]

Wonder if coating the bathroom walls with Teflon would help?

Yeah, expensive as anything, but wouldn't it be funny to see their frustration as their graffiti evaporates before they finish writing it?

[CrazedClerk]

I should invent a stall wall that can detect when ink is placed on it and if it it ever is, it showers the perpetrator with several colors of bright paint.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Not work related, but at school someone once defaced the mirror in one of the girl's toilets, by writing "**** Is A Slag" in red nail polish right accross it. That was there for months cuz they couldn't get it off without damaging the mirror, it being a cheapo one with a mirror skin stuck onto a piece of glass.

[Shironu-Akaineko]

I should invent a stall wall that can detect when ink is placed on it and if it it ever is, it showers the perpetrator with several colors of bright paint.

Naked Gun much? ;p

[Kitten in the box]

Wonder if coating the bathroom walls with Teflon would help?

Yeah, expensive as anything, but wouldn't it be funny to see their frustration as their graffiti evaporates before they finish writing it?

we could do that but with all the nutbags we have come into our store our luck would be they get pissed because thier graffiti dissapears so they would result to damaging things in the bathroom in retalliation. However the Teflon thing is a good idea...I am going to suggest it to our manager and if she says no. tehn obviously she don't really care if the bathrooms get tagged.

[Imogene]

Juwl, have I mentioned yet that you're my hero?

Er... no, I don't think you have yet, Bette. Care to finish the song?
*points in Toolbaby's direction* My fan club begins over there."

[Greenday]

Note to self: Bright pink Sharpie makes no one take your racism seriously.
It's permanent, however, unless painted over.

You know what else isn't threatening? Teachers writing threats of going on strike, during the summer, with street-chalk. Kinda hard to take them serious. Especially when they mispell stuff. You want a payraise for teaching, but you can't even spell. REALLY convincing.

[MMATM]

Slightly OT, but one year in high school someone from our rival town came by our school at night and spraypainted "EAT PU**Y BITCES" (sic) on our school's driveway. The administration had it covered as soon as school started, but it was seriously suggested to uncover at least the "BITCES" part. The rival school's football team's bus was also pulled over by my town's police on the way to the game because the coach had the bus pull over so that he and some players could move/knock down/deface signs supporting our team.
We won the game, by the way. Something like 40-odd to 7... *Daydreams about his football days*

[BookstoreEscapee]

Not work related, but at school someone once defaced the mirror in one of the girl's toilets, by writing "**** Is A Slag" in red nail polish right accross it. That was there for months cuz they couldn't get it off without damaging the mirror, it being a cheapo one with a mirror skin stuck onto a piece of glass.

That's just wrong. If I were the person that was written about I (and my parents) would be making a serious complaint that the school is more interested in saving a cheap mirror than erasing derogatory graffiti aimed at a specific person and leaving it there for months.

Most of the graffiti in my past stores (at least the women's rooms) has been from teenagers, so usually things like AB+CD 4EVER!!!!!! (OMG!!) or I :heart: Joey! (Though from what I've heard the men's rooms got some worse stuff.)

They do make graffiti-resistant coatings for walls. A few years ago Store1 replaced the old painted metal stall walls with some kind of plastic that is supposed to be easier to clean (also ball-point pen doesn't really work on them), and they make coatings/paints that prevent spray paint (and ink, too, I presume) from penetrating into the underlying coating so it can be cleaned off more easily. (Did a quick Google of "graffiti resistant paint" to learn that.)