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what kind of work places have communal shower rooms where you can laugh at each other?
Office blocks that have gyms.
The office where I work in central London, UK has bike parking for 300 and only eight vehicle parking spaces. We also have a fitness suite. There's two (male and female) locker rooms with showers, towels provided, a drying room.
At least one of the green building standards doesn't give you the top rating unless you have provision for active travel, institutional investors won't buy your shiny new building unless it's rated "Excellent" or "Platinum", tenants are looking for added extras which encourage their staff to come to the office rather than WFH.
And Westminster Council charges business rates (property tax) on parking spaces.
Manufacturing plants? Usually if there's a changing room there's showers
Used to work at a tire factory and we got paid $1.50 a shift on shower time. I absolutely needed it with how filthy i would get each shift
Many white collar offices have gyms.
The building I worked at in the Chicago loop had showers for bike commuters. Might be a big city thing.
As someone mentioned, gyms. I biked to work at one of my previous places, and if I wanted to shower, I'd head to the on campus gym. That gym had stalls, so theoretically ou could talk in the shower, though I never did.
Could be shower stalls. My job has showers, we have a gym on-site.
Sounds like she failed successfully!
shower rooms at work
Damn, I've spent years commuting by bike and never once had a shower room at work. At one place I had to join the nearby Y and deal with naked, old, fat southern men lounging around on couches in the locker room every morning making jokes about imprisoning black men for life.
This sounds familiar af... Pensacola?
Close enough - Shreveport, Louisiana. This Y was where all the judges and prosecutors (and the defense attorneys as well, of course) from the courthouse hung out. I kinda wish I hadn't told this story because now I can't those locker room images out of my head. So much overfed, droopy white flesh covered in gray hair.
My favorite thing about this Y was that they still had a bunch of those motorized fat-shaker belts from the 1930s or whenever on the top floor - and this wasn't even quite 20 years ago.
Fuck oversized trucks. That lady deserved to have you - and everyone else - laugh in her stupid face.
You wouldn't laugh at a fat guy going to the gym.
The lady is cycling to work each morning. The initial impetus might have been bad, but she's doing a lot better than most people. Once she gets into the habit of cycling, she's a lot less likely to stop than if she's laughed at for it. It might also help her realise the truck isn't worth the hassle.
Youre getting downvoted because you are correct.
Upgraded?
Upgrayedded
Which he spells thusly, with two D's
For a double dose of this pimping
Can't believe that workplace abuses their workers like this, making people think she's poor! /s
Ya know, this is a good argument for all cars to be cartoonishly oversized. That way they can only be used when absolutely needed.
Or of course the car lobby will just push to make all the infrastructure fit around the giant gas guzzlers.
Some time ago I was standing chatting next to my vehicle in a parking lot. This was in college. About 50-60ft away was one of the lot entrances. Not too steep, though one of those that will catch a lower car if it doesn't come in carefully. Anyway, in comes screaming a Lamborghini. The very expensive sound the bottom of that car made still makes me wish I was recording. Could've turned it into my morning alarm.
I like to think me bursting out laughing still haunts the driver to this day.