We had some dude who would come in occasionally for meetings and leave a bunch of hair in the urinal. We'd joke he had alopubecia. You'd expect a stray couple every day but this looked like cookie monster's mouth.

Actually, we lady techies experience many of the same problems in our restrooms, too.

In the dark times, when I worked at Amazon, male software engineers, mostly white, would walk around the building without shoes and/or socks on. They'd use the restroom, like standing at the urinals or sitting in the stalls without shoes and/or socks on. It was and is disgusting.

The tech bro may be scared to leave beacuse their mommy usually wipes them. Give 'em a brake. This is a big moment for most of them. Plus cheating on taxes or watching porn takes a while. It takes me a while on the 7 to Rainier, so it must take longer in a office bathroom. There is plenty of room to crap in front of City Hall right now.

Peak tech bro.

They're so plastic, I didn't even know techies pooped.

This is hardly a techie phenomenon, unless you consider everyone who owns a smartphone to be one. Otherwise, I fully agree with this Ianon.

@6: Gladys, I nominate you for the WIN! Well done and bravo!

I think this is more a millenial problem. My two co-workers, both mid-twenties, gamer, cartoon superhero movie loving, non-stop junk food eating, weak-minded, multiple med taking, IBS having, best friends since preschool, Siamese-Nerds, those two guys must clean themselves once a week whether they need to or not. Both smell, mostly B.O. but sometimes literally like ass. One of their asses smells so bad his chair smells. They leave a layer of filth behind on the toilet seat and on the phones. I am disinfecting on a constant, multiple times a day basis. It is disgusting and immature, at best.

I've heard some Amazon offices actually have shelves in the bathroom stalls for laptops. Is this true or merely urban myth?

4: Did you just admit to taking a dump every day on the 7 to Rainier?

9: That sounds like a set-up to the ickiest letter of reprimand in corporate history.

@11. Yes. But in my defense, I don't wear socks with my sandals, so it is not as bad as it sounds.

And this is why Amazon management is debating scrambling cell service and WiFi in the bathrooms. They don’t want their minions using the excuse of pooping to take long breaks and noodle on the internet. Waste of company time!

It's fun to make stuff up, isn't it? Then we can all feel better about ourselves. (However I have been told horror stories about the hygiene habits of guys to wait for paying gigs to test XBOX games on Willows Road.)

In one of my past jobs at a major local company, I'd walk into the men's room and pass by occupied stalls from which the sound of snoring emanated.

Huh, when someone leaves a bathroom in the park dirty they clamor for anti-homeless pogroms to sweep them across the city limits. Yet apparently housed and employed people don't have any better habits. The only difference between you and the class you despise is how much stuff they have.

After reading this, I need to go wash my hands. Yuck. I'll bet those phones are so filthy.

@10 - it's true. they just look like wall mounted metal magazine racks.

Using your phone on the toilet is fucking gross. Bathrooms are for bathrooming, not playing with your phone, not fucking, not doing blow—you can do all of those things in plenty of other places.

@14 Are they really considering that? It'd be wicked illegal to do so.

@17 You're not wrong.

@10 @19 Yes there are metal laptop shelves but they're not in the stalls, they're on the bathroom wall. I mean seriously, how are you supposed to pee while holding a laptop???

The concept of "shy shitters" is not a new thing that came in with the tech boom.

@21: "how are you supposed to pee while holding a laptop???"

The same way I've seen some people peeing while eating a sandwich.

having finally escaped a Bellevue biz-tard job I'm only more confused as to how people spend their lives on this bullshit. it's not worth your blue-and-green angry-eyes Wrangler, bro