The British canteen system

The British canteen system is disgusting a!1d humiliating-more or less saying to someone 'You're not good enough to eat with us', and the toilet system is even worse. Imagine the directors saying openly to middle management 'YoUr hygiene is such that you can't with us.' They'd never dare say it but they imply it by having their toilets locked.
While a manager from the firm with the most
elaborate system stated that:

We feel that toilets and works canteens come into the same category, a place where any employee can go and shout his mouth off and not worry about being overhead. By. the same token the top executives can discuss confidential matters in their own toilet without us overhearing and vice-versa.

Presumably this manager had not read about an amazing 1965 American survey in which a quarter of the eighty-seven firms involved eavesdropped by 'bugging' works toilets.