Restrooms & Work Social Life

Someone is try to get more privacy in the men's restroom. Dangerous Dave talks about how and if it is a good idea. Plus, is AI destroying our work social life? Signs lead to "yes".

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Deeper in the din with dangerous date. While there was
a tough time when there were zero privacy in men's restrooms,
largely trough urnals mostly been phased out. Dividers between urinals
become larger deal. Now somebody using AI to create a
new design for men's restrooms. It's where each urinal is

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separated by a toilet stall. That deal is alternating stalls
in urinals for more privacy, the toilet stalls on one
side of the bathroom and urinals on the other side.
In the comments, many people note that it would require
more stall walls because each stall would be enclosed without
shared walls, but those walls replaced the urinal dividers. Other
problems could be that there's less space, it could be

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a plumbing issue. Other people think it's totally doable. Other
replacement complaints for men is I rather deal with a
little less privacy along the walls of the urinal. It
meant further away from stalls when people are taking the
big jobs down. If I could have a little separation
of those, I mean, you're in there for forty five seconds.
Does it really matter that much? Deeper in the team,

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there are people that thrive at their jobs with vibrant
workplace social lives and being talkative with coworkers or hanging
out with them at lunch or happy hour after work
or even on the weekends. Also people who'd rather work
not talk to anybody, or talk to as few co
workers as humanly possible. Business Insider as a report on
how AI is threatening to make or take away our

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work social lives for better or worse, making offices less social,
less human, and less alive. The ideas AI has taken
away a lot of the interaction and shrinking workforces leave
people with a lot fewer people to talk to, basically
on their own. In a lot of cases, people don't
need each other as much or at least in person.
Studies show that AI users have low trust in colleagues,

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weaker team coordination, higher burnout, and greater feelings of isolation.
Some companies are trying to cut this off by using
AI to strengthen relationships rather than replace them al sbertly
rebuilding the social interactions work usually generate naturally, interactions at
work fewer because of AI. I guess I've seen that
a little bit. I mean, it's sad when I have

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to go to a happy hour with just my phone
to me again for another episode of Deeper in the
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