Back when I was a cable guy some 15 years ago, we’d have our connection boxes for multistory apartment buildings in these closets, similar to a power room. In these closets, there were always spare PVC conduits coming up through the floor. Now, company regulations forbade us from using any public restroom in uniform (including those of customers), to the extent we had pee ports on the side of our service trucks that led to a bag that was to be disposed of at the end of each day. We all hated them, and the unofficial way to do it was to piss in those conduits.
To whomever had to eventually pull fiber through those conduits, I am so sorry.
Well yes, but it’s a bit ridiculous for a company to provide a male-oriented contraption, and then just say “tough, adapt” to the women in their workforce.
Lack of interest or sexist hiring practices? Couldn’t tell you. Tbf, it was often enough that it would be a single tech dispatched to a home or business, and given this was years ago, there may have been a corporate safety factor. Some of the people were definitely weirdos and I could only imagine how that might’ve been an issue if the tech was a solo woman. There were some jobs I walked away from because the customer creeped me out and I’m a 6’3" 240lb dude.
Back when I was a cable guy some 15 years ago, we’d have our connection boxes for multistory apartment buildings in these closets, similar to a power room. In these closets, there were always spare PVC conduits coming up through the floor. Now, company regulations forbade us from using any public restroom in uniform (including those of customers), to the extent we had pee ports on the side of our service trucks that led to a bag that was to be disposed of at the end of each day. We all hated them, and the unofficial way to do it was to piss in those conduits.
To whomever had to eventually pull fiber through those conduits, I am so sorry.
How tf were women techs supposed to do it???
throigh her penis ofc
They sell funnels for women
Well yes, but it’s a bit ridiculous for a company to provide a male-oriented contraption, and then just say “tough, adapt” to the women in their workforce.
Have you ever been like… Part of society in the last 3000 years or so? That’s exactly what a company would do
“Here, this thingy’ll help you pee in the conduits like everybody else.”
Truth be told I don’t think I ever remember and woman techs.
i wonder why
Lack of interest or sexist hiring practices? Couldn’t tell you. Tbf, it was often enough that it would be a single tech dispatched to a home or business, and given this was years ago, there may have been a corporate safety factor. Some of the people were definitely weirdos and I could only imagine how that might’ve been an issue if the tech was a solo woman. There were some jobs I walked away from because the customer creeped me out and I’m a 6’3" 240lb dude.
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