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Restroom photo shop at Arenas?

May 17, 2023 06:25PM
Just saw this one. I did not read the details. Pay is decent, but really taking pictures of toilets and urinals?

Not something I am looking forward to.

I think out of spite if I did one, I would take a selfie while on the toilet and use that picture :-) Then comment on how comfortable the toilet seat was or was not.

Can't imagine telling some dude to wait to use the urinal cuz you need to take a picture of it.

Like I said...I did not read the details...but I'm envisioning what the shop would be like.
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May 17, 2023 10:20PM
That's an interesting one. I have done restaurant shops where I have to take a picture of the restroom. Later, my kids will blab to people about how I love taking pictures, including ones of toilets. Real embarrassing.
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May 17, 2023 11:15PM
I did a sporting event shop at a football stadium. One of the required pictures was of a bathroom. That was rather difficult with all the traffic in and out and the attendant.

I didn't want to be beaten up for being a pervert.
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May 17, 2023 11:56PM
I absolutely hate taking bathroom photographs. With the fuel station shops, you need them when they do not make the cut, so those make me sick. In real life whenever I step into a bathroom that stinks or filthy or unflushed I just leave and SUFFER. I had an awful one for a shop the other day. The smell was so unbearable, it made my eyes burn. It was a men's room converted to a unisex. Lately, I have found this particular fuel station doing that, saving the women's restroom for the employees and locking it, while the other a unisex. The urinal and the toilet were loaded and that is all I will say about that. I am always hoping there will be no public restroom so I can skip that part.
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May 18, 2023 01:33AM
there is one near me. I read the requirements. It has 6 bathrooms that you have to check. You can't check the bathrooms until 45 minutes after the event starts and 45 minutes before it ends.Not interested
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May 18, 2023 02:42AM
I do a lot of gas station shops with required bathroom pictures. Sometimes I get jaded and think of myself as a glorfied restroom inspector. Once for whatever reason Windows grabbed a photo from my disk and made it into my background photo. It was a toilet. Sigh.
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May 18, 2023 06:14AM
@sueac101 wrote:

there is one near me. I read the requirements. It has 6 bathrooms that you have to check. You can't check the bathrooms until 45 minutes after the event starts and 45 minutes before it ends.Not interested

After doors open, not event start. I have one of these to do so I'll let you all know.
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May 18, 2023 12:40PM
@mystery2me wrote:

I do a lot of gas station shops with required bathroom pictures. Sometimes I get jaded and think of myself as a glorfied restroom inspector. Once for whatever reason Windows grabbed a photo from my disk and made it into my background photo. It was a toilet. Sigh.

Funny story. A friend of mine was on vacation and I had been looking at his vacation photos on facebook. One of the places he visited was a defunct penitentiary in West Virgina. Somehow I had downloaded one of the photos to my gallery. When I went to upload the gas station photos to my report there was this horrible tooking toilet and I am scratching my head thinking I don't remember the restroom looking that bad...before I figured out what had happened.
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May 18, 2023 01:37PM
I save my pics for a while (till the shops are approved and paid) before I go in and do a mass delete. My kids will see the bathroom photos and ask why I'm taking pics of toilets.

@mystery2me wrote:

I do a lot of gas station shops with required bathroom pictures. Sometimes I get jaded and think of myself as a glorfied restroom inspector. Once for whatever reason Windows grabbed a photo from my disk and made it into my background photo. It was a toilet. Sigh.
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May 19, 2023 02:44AM
Oh yeah I joke all the time that if anyone saw the photos in my phone they would wonder---store restrooms and parking lots with cigarette butts,
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May 19, 2023 11:36AM
I'm scheduled to do one the day after tomorrow. The Guidelines say to read the guidelines and the questionnaire before going. SO I read the guidelines on SASSIE site...then renew and click on the questionnaire. It says the document is locked.

Great. Its on the Presto APP so I am interested to see what I'm in for on the 20th.

Just be cool folks.
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May 19, 2023 06:06PM
HAHA. I was on a group text with about 15 family members. I accidentally sent a photo of a restroom, then had to explain myself.
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May 20, 2023 09:08PM
When I was getting my PHD in Philosophy and Advanced Thinking of Philosophical Things...... Socrates, Plato, and the Blue-Blocker Sunglasses guy were what my thesis revolved around. However in this situation I remember the Supreme Philosopher Meatloaf's immortal words:

"I would do anything for love, but I won't do that". I also changed my studies - never got the conventional PHD but I believe I do have Pride, Hustle, and Desire.

So there Dear Reader, 8 seconds you'll never ever get back.
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