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Rude, Odd, or Passive/Aggressive?
By: BeagleMommy Date: September 18, 2018, 2:17 pm
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I was in the ladies room at work today washing my hands. There
was a woman from the department down the hall at the sink next
to me.
I got paper towels to dry my hands. The paper towels are on a
roll in a machine you have to push a handle to dispense a sheet
of them. Dried my hands while the other woman got her towels.
She dried her hands, threw the towels away, then pumped the
handle again so a long sheet of towels was hanging out of the
dispenser. As she headed toward the door she turned to me and
said "I always leave paper towels hanging her so the next person
sees it and is reminded to wash their hands".
It left me wondering if she just did this as an odd habit or if
she truly felt the need to remind adults to wash their hands
after using the restroom.
What do you all think? Rude or not?
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Re: Rude, Odd, or Passive/Aggressive?
By: sandisadie Date: September 18, 2018, 2:38 pm
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I'd say that's a pretty odd thing to do. Maybe she should just
mind her business and let others mind theirs. Frankly, if I saw
paper towels hanging down from a dispenser I'd probably tear
them off, throw them away and pull out a fresh piece for myself.
Who knows what someone may have used that hanging piece for?
#Post#: 14051--------------------------------------------------
Re: Rude, Odd, or Passive/Aggressive?
By: ti_ax Date: September 18, 2018, 2:55 pm
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"Rude, Odd, or Passive/Aggressive?"
I'll vote for all three.
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Re: Rude, Odd, or Passive/Aggressive?
By: NFPwife Date: September 18, 2018, 3:01 pm
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[quote author=sandisadie link=topic=690.msg14048#msg14048
date=1537299537]
I'd say that's a pretty odd thing to do. Maybe she should just
mind her business and let others mind theirs. Frankly, if I saw
paper towels hanging down from a dispenser I'd probably tear
them off, throw them away and pull out a fresh piece for myself.
Who knows what someone may have used that hanging piece for?
[/quote]
I thought the same thing, I'd be likely to throw them away and I
bet a lot of people do. The only thing she's succeeding in is
killing trees.
Adults aren't going to respond to this sort of "prompt" in the
way she hopes. It's really odd. If she wants to encourage
handwashing, she can hang one of those little infographics in
the stalls.
Edited for typo
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Re: Rude, Odd, or Passive/Aggressive?
By: LurkingGurl Date: September 18, 2018, 3:37 pm
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Meh. It's her little brand of activism.
While it might remind someone to wash their hands, it's more
likely to make someone in maintenance think there is something
wrong with the towel dispenser.
In general, women are nearly twice more likely to wash their
hands after using a public bathroom, around 65%. If there is a
sign to remind them to do it, the percentage of women who heed
the sign goes up to 97%.
The rate for men washing their hands is about 37% and actually
goes down a point or two if there is a sign!
I think that she is right to be concerned about it. People who
don't wash their hands spread germs around. Encouraging hand
washing, especially in a business setting where people shake
hands, can make it a healthier place.
October 15 is Global Handwashing Day!
HTML https://crowd360.org/infographic-clean-hands-a-recipe-for-health/
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Re: Rude, Odd, or Passive/Aggressive?
By: AfleetAlex Date: September 18, 2018, 3:47 pm
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I wonder what her tone was. I could see myself feeling the need
to explain what I was doing, if it was just something I did, not
meaning it to be a poke at the other person. (But I'm very good
at 'open mouth, insert foot' so take my thoughts with the
proverbial grain of salt.)
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Re: Rude, Odd, or Passive/Aggressive?
By: jpcher Date: September 18, 2018, 3:52 pm
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If I saw a strip of paper towel hanging from the dispenser I'd
use it. There are times when I pass the dispenser (after drying
my hands) I'll set off the motion detector and another strip
comes down.
Before the motion detectors were installed I knew a woman who
would push the button before she went into a stall because she
didn't want to touch the button after washing her hands.
Definitely not rude.
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Re: Rude, Odd, or Passive/Aggressive?
By: Kimberami Date: September 18, 2018, 3:56 pm
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Can I vote for quirky? It just sounds like something that was
done by a teacher or parent, and she just picked it up. No harm
was done to anyone.
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Re: Rude, Odd, or Passive/Aggressive?
By: GardenGal Date: September 18, 2018, 4:01 pm
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I'd say odd, or maybe passive/aggressive. I have no problem
using paper that is already hanging out of the dispenser, in
part because I've seen many dispensers where more paper comes
out automatically when a sheet is torn off.
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Re: Rude, Odd, or Passive/Aggressive?
By: OnyxBird Date: September 18, 2018, 4:44 pm
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[quote author=AfleetAlex link=topic=690.msg14061#msg14061
date=1537303652]
I wonder what her tone was. I could see myself feeling the need
to explain what I was doing, if it was just something I did, not
meaning it to be a poke at the other person. (But I'm very good
at 'open mouth, insert foot' so take my thoughts with the
proverbial grain of salt.)
[/quote]
Depending on tone, I think this might be a very plausible
explanation.
I have seen more than one person who dispenses more paper towel
after they're done for the next person. I've always kind of
assumed it was either some kind of "germaphobic" quirk (they
don't want to touch the handle with wet hands and/or without a
paper towel barrier and assume the next person won't either) or
a habit they picked up somewhere that people were "expected" to
leave a paper towel ready for the next person.
If they are in that habit for one of those reasons, they may
have realized mid-action that they were dispensing the extra
paper towel when you didn't and clumsily tried to avoid implying
that they were judging your method. Saying, e.g., "I always
dispense another towel so the next person doesn't have to touch
the germy handle" could imply that people who don't are rudely
forcing those behind them to get germed, but "I do this [weird
thing] to remind others to wash their hands" (to someone who
just washed their hands without prompting) isn't implying that
they omitted some expected polite action.
Obviously if that was the intent, it backfired mightily and she
would have been better off just not commenting, but people say a
lot of weird things to explain themselves when they suddenly
realize that someone has seen them do something "weird"...even
if the watcher didn't even notice before the "explanation."
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