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Office Loo's...

MentalMinnie
MentalMinnie Posts: 814 Forumite
Don't ask me why i'm interested....but anyhoo!!

This is one for the girls. Do you avoid using the work loo's for a 'number 2'? I remember years ago a female colleague compained that the men in our office used the toilets for a number 2 and how disgusting it was. Is this the general consensus amongst women?

P.S. I'm a woman!
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  • Used to work in a place where the guys seemed to specifically reserve their number 2s for when they were at work :eek: They made a whole show of taking a newspaper in with them and announcing where they were away to, and everyone had to stay clear for the next xx hours. Competition as to who could be the smelliest.

    The ladies on the other hand did the needful outside working hours.
    Wealth is what you're left with when all your money runs out
  • lovecake
    lovecake Posts: 682 Forumite
    Hehe! What a thread! If I have to go, I have to go. I'm not going to make myself ill by holding it til I get home. That seems crazy to me. Although I did suffer with IBS for a number of years so I am used to going anywhere! :rotfl:

    Our office loos are set back from the main bit of the office and are single cubicles rather than one big toilet with lots of cubicles IYSWIM, plus they each have room spray in there so people are pretty good at spraying if they do go for a number 2.

    I think people can be a bit precious about it - c'mon, everybody poops! :rotfl:
  • lovecake
    lovecake Posts: 682 Forumite
    Used to work in a place where the guys seemed to specifically reserve their number 2s for when they were at work :eek: They made a whole show of taking a newspaper in with them and announcing where they were away to, and everyone had to stay clear for the next xx hours. Competition as to who could be the smelliest.

    The ladies on the other hand did the needful outside working hours.

    Eeeeeeewwwww! :rotfl:Glad the blokes in my office are not like that!
  • trolleyrun
    trolleyrun Posts: 1,382 Forumite
    Having ibs - when you gotta go you gotta go ;) But, if I can avoid it I will. The loos where I work are really not nice :(
  • alleycat`
    alleycat` Posts: 1,901 Forumite
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    Not of the fairer sex but for lords sake.

    It's a toilet.
    It has a function.
    You use it when you need to do said function.

    When you've got to go, you've got to go...
    O and courtesy flush as required....
  • Oh in my first job the toilet had been made by partitioning off the corner of one of the offices. When anyone went you could hear every tinkle and splash - it was awful.

    I used to sneak into the customer toilets which we werent really supposed to use!

    If you are at work for 8 hours then how do you hold on? If you have got to go you have got to go - although I would rather do it in the comfort of my own home!!
  • Bella73
    Bella73 Posts: 547 Forumite
    We have small singular loos and people open the window and there is spray which most people utilise.
  • Torry_Quine
    Torry_Quine Posts: 18,892 Forumite
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    This has been discussed before and it does seem that some people wouldn't go anywhere other than at home. It makes no sense to me, if yu need to go then do. It isn't healthy to wait until you think it an appropriate time.
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    I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have -
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  • If you are at work for 8 hours then how do you hold on? If you have got to go you have got to go - although I would rather do it in the comfort of my own home!!

    The weird thing is, OH is like clockwork - once every 24 hours. I could almost set my watch by him :rotfl:
    Wealth is what you're left with when all your money runs out
  • Why wouldn't you go at work- you get paid :D
    You can calculate how much you're earning for using the office facilities here. I get paid about £100 to wee at work so could up this considerably if I put some effort in.

    (I'm a woman and go when I need to. The men often have a good laugh about whoever's gone off for a stinky; luckily they don't keep track of the women nipping off upstairs!)
    They call me Dr Worm... I'm interested in things; I'm not a real doctor but I am a real worm. :grin:
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