Thursday, 6 August 2015

Toilet habits impact our work performance and ratings


"Toilet" training [adult learning!]
Imagine you have pressure building up deep inside your body and you are desperate to relive yourself. Your feet will automatically carry you toward the nearest ‘washroom’ [as we like to polish the title of the room – these-days]….but upon reaching there, you are forced to contract your muscles even longer and stress them….why? It is occupied. It is under scheduled cleaning. It is under repair. Not available. Worse still, left dirty by some uncouth user before. Lucky them, unlucky you. Either you must exhaust your bladder or you perform the dirty work yourself, after heartily abusing and cursing them! Now, they are unlucky! After doing the “job”, some may make the effort to hunt down the culprit and give them a piece of shit – from the mind! Yeah, well for a simple task of relieving one’s bladders, one has to slap the hat of an investigator at times on the head!
Would then we like it if someone else curses or abuses us if they fall under a similar situation? Would we like to be at the receiving end of a verbal shit? A curse or an abuse? Then what is stopping us from adopting hygienic, civilized, mannered and clean toilet habits? At home, in public, in office, in a hotel, a lodging, a hostel, shared accommodation, at a family function, anywhere? Don’t you frown and shrink your nose? Cringe? At the ghastly “sight”?
 These “uncouth unlucky despos” are found everywhere, or a circumstance may force you also to become one! Who knows, how ‘desperate’ is your ‘desperacy’? [duh]…once a person is “used” to being clean, couth and hygienic, the person cannot survive in a contrast environment. Microbiology experts claim that the density of pathogenic bacteria found on: cellphones, kitchen platforms, kitchen instruments, kitchen sink, dining areas is several times higher than the pathogens found on th rim of the toilet pot, toilet floor and wash-basin….why? Can we not challenge this theory / claim? Can we not negate this? Higher the presence of pathogens higher the rates of sickness and illness. Higher the intensity of human beings’ unhygienic habits, higher the multiplication and flourish of microbes and pathogens. This is not an under cover information. We all know it. Everyone knows it.
We are practically allowing the filth and dirt visible to our eyes, that which makes us frown, cringe and even has nauseatic effect on us, to enter our bodies, impact our health and disturb our biology. To cause us to fall sick! That which we hate to see, is going inside our body and we are okay with it. We don’t care, do we? We are quite ‘okay’ [read: acceptable] with our own colleagues unknowingly bitching about us candidly! No one knows who the “culprit/s” is/are!
Can we not adopt simple, but crucial hygiene habits? At home, work and other places we visit? Why are public toilets so filthy in our country? Why? If we care to keep our domestic toilet and bath clean, spick and span, why not the office toilets? How would we like it if our organization sacks us or fires us thanks to our unhygienic unhealthy manners? This filth, this dirt, this seemingly disgusting ‘ambiance’ that we ourselves create, gets straight into our heads. Creating the same impact on the mind. The mind impacts our behavior. Our behavior impacts our work. Our organizations monitors only our work, not the activities inside the toilets. But…..!! well!!

These toilet habits impact our performance at work….that which reflects on our CV!! Just imagine!! 

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