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Loo fly rule flies in the face of hygiene reason
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May 29, 2012, Tuesday
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AS a toilet manager or janitor, you fail in your duty if you allow more than two flies to buzz around on your "turf."
That's the highlight of a rule recently announced by Beijing to clean up its public toilets. While it's laudable for the city to try to improve its public facilities, such a rigid quantitative requirement is absurd.
If there's only one or two flies, does that mean that a toilet manager or janitor is doing a good job and doesn't have to eliminate them?
In response to public ridicule of the flies-in-the-toilet rule, Xie Guomin, an official in charge of Beijing's environmental affairs, explained last week that the rule was not to be taken literally and that inspectors will not make a fuss if there are more than two flies in a loo.
"The rule must be rigid, but the way we inspect and judge a public toilet can be flexible," Xie said. "For example, an inspector will judge the level of sanitation with a quick dart of the eyes. He or she will not really count the number of flies."
Come on. If inspection method can be very flexible, why bother with rigid quantitative requirements?
That's the highlight of a rule recently announced by Beijing to clean up its public toilets. While it's laudable for the city to try to improve its public facilities, such a rigid quantitative requirement is absurd.
If there's only one or two flies, does that mean that a toilet manager or janitor is doing a good job and doesn't have to eliminate them?
In response to public ridicule of the flies-in-the-toilet rule, Xie Guomin, an official in charge of Beijing's environmental affairs, explained last week that the rule was not to be taken literally and that inspectors will not make a fuss if there are more than two flies in a loo.
"The rule must be rigid, but the way we inspect and judge a public toilet can be flexible," Xie said. "For example, an inspector will judge the level of sanitation with a quick dart of the eyes. He or she will not really count the number of flies."
Come on. If inspection method can be very flexible, why bother with rigid quantitative requirements?
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