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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 month ago (12 children)

what kind of work places have communal shower rooms where you can laugh at each other?

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago

Office blocks that have gyms.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Manufacturing plants? Usually if there's a changing room there's showers

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What qualifications does such a job require?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pass a full panel drug test and have a pulse

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And be 100% ok with having work only clothes since carbon black ruins everything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

We had uniforms that dod a great job of taking most of the grime for me. But operating a Banbury was the dirtiest i have ever gotten at work.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Many white collar offices have gyms.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The building I worked at in the Chicago loop had showers for bike commuters. Might be a big city thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also most factories have shower rooms because it's physical labour and you often smell by the end of the day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I work in an office and I smell by the end of the day

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Could be shower stalls. My job has showers, we have a gym on-site.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Office I worked in had shower rooms. I did bike to work but never showered there because eeewwww.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

My last two offices had showers. No communal room, but the thing I remember most about the last one is the hot water being pumped from the furnaces of hell itself. It took so long go get there, and was so hot once it did I can't think of any other explanation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Mines and quarries