Office Loo's...

Errata

I flush using my elbow, usefully prevents me overbalancing if using a foot, falling flat on my back and fracturing my skull.

alwaysbrassic

If I have to go (which I try not to!) I generally spend about 10 mins afterwards spraying airfreshner, perfume, deodorant etc to disguise the whiff - to the point that one point my colleague slipped on the floor as there was so much spray on it!!

Frith

I always used the loo at work as I needed it.

However, I had one annoying colleague who always seemed to be walking past the loo while I was in there (just one loo in a little room) and she would insist on stopping outside and having a conversation with me through the door! So I would have to stop what I was doing until she got bored and moved on. :-S

FatVonD

I always use the loo on another floor to avoid the chance of coming face to face with a colleague when I come out.

My pet hates are:

people that stand in there doing their make up when you need to take a dump, and

people that hover rather than sit on the seat so end up spraying over it for those of us that don't mind sitting on the seat, and

people that don't wash their hands

SailorSam

I've been sitting here for an hour now trying to think of a pooh joke, but nothing is coming out.

FatVonD

Oh, and as another iBS sufferer (and after a couple of really close shaves :eek: ) I always sit near the loo on the train and I'd never before noticed how *busy* the train loos are. I did feel for a woman tonight having to battle her way through a crowded train (massive delays tonight) to the loo. I felt her panic :eek:

building_with_lego

flashnazia wrote: »

It's attitudes like this that has made some employers make employees clock out in order to use the toilet. Can't say I blame them when some people take the p i s s (don't excuse the pun).

That was a little tongue in cheek, rest assured I only go when I actually need to, and don't time my bowels to open while I'm at work.

There is, however, a girl at work who drinks litres and litres of water each shift, then makes an inordinate number of loo visits, to the chagrin of her immediate colleagues, who have to cover for her. She could do with clocking out and in again!

mademoiselle_2

I think this topic comes up more often these days, simply because a larger proportion of the population are overeating and are obese. Which translates, sadly, into more people using worktime lavatories for horrible, stinking, gross bowel movements, as their overloaded colons expel the stuff.

I think you can guess which side of the argument I come down on! I literally would have to have a colon in spasm before I would use work (or public) lavatories for a bowel movement.

Having had to endure using lavatories where some ghastly person has downloaded whatever takeaway/fast food/processed spicy gunk they last ingested, and been left gagging at the stench left in the air, I am not a fan of those who think it is funny to inflict their waste products on others!

The loos where I work are particularly bad. They are in a modern office block, completely enclosed, so no window you can open for fresh air. Sometimes I walk in there and have to walk out again, I feel like I am going to pass out from the stench.

And I agree about the monsters who don't even bother to check what mess they leave the lavatory in. Horrible brown smears left on the pan, nasty little floating bobbles of poo, and ( the worst of all) blood and gore from tampons left on the seat. Yuk Yuk Yuk Yuk Yuk!:eek:

SailorSam

building_with_lego wrote: »

There is, however, a girl at work who drinks litres and litres of water each shift, then makes an inordinate number of loo visits, to the chagrin of her immediate colleagues, who have to cover for her. She could do with clocking out and in again!

That sounds like the start of a whole new thread about smokers who have a couple of hours of extra breaks throughout the week.

balletshoes

thunderbird wrote: »

If I need to go, I go. Don't see the problem personally. It is what they are there for.

If the problem is that you are so stinky then maybe you need to look at your diet!

No joke I agree with this - our ladies loos are outside our office room off a corridor, so no-one really sees you go in or out, so wouldn't know who's done what in there, or care really. But - for a while we had to go use the toilets on other floors, because someone was using ours at around the same time every day, and honestly, they must have had bowel/stomach/digestive system problems of some sort or other, because the stench was awful, and it took ages to clear.