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In our new office, our stalls are laid out in such a way that you can make eye contact with the person shitting across from you.

Aside from all the other myriad god-awful decisions that someone didn't think through, this one weirds me out the most. I know it's hard to see these things on blueprints, but it's as if these people never shit.

(I know, I know - the correct answer is, "this is the cheap best-practice way of installing toilet stalls". Fuck you; I'm glad I have a private unisex bathroom I can typically use to handle private bodily functions.)

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Open plan bathrooms are great for collaboration though. What works for the office should also work for bathrooms, right?

I've been in casinos where the bathrooms had mirrors on the ceilings. I'm not talking about in-room bathrooms, either.

It's very weird that someone would design something like that.

It's for security to check for sex and drug use.

Many casinos have two-way mirrored ceilings for observation. Hopefully it's a normal mirror in the restroom ceilings, otherwise I'm not sure how legal it would be.

That still doesn't excuse putting mirrors on bathroom ceilings.

The restrooms at El Nacional in Barcleona also have mirrored ceilings.

WTF? I can't imagine what this looks like. Any link to an image?

The only place I've seen adult toilets like this is in a prison tour.

It's through the gaps; it's not like a giant window you can stare at someone through. But the positioning is incredibly unfortunate.

I know HN does not reward these reactions with upvotes, but: ALWP. A lot of laughter. I'm still chuckling. This is amazing.

And here I thought that urinals without a divider were awkward.

I thought he was shitting me, but alas.

Anyway, brings an old SNL skit to mind – the love toilet. Look it up.

Why are there gaps on the stall doors?

I am guessing you never use public rest rooms? Many stall doors have a vertical gap by the lock for extra clearance since they are designed to be cheap. Especially public school bathrooms.

"for extra clearance" .

I have been in quite a few countries, everyone poorer than the US , yet somehow , as cheap as they made their bathrooms, it isn't possible to look into peoples stalls.

Only in the states.

Stop! Please tell me that's not real.

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