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Toilet incident at work.
goatfertility
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I need advice.
On friday I was going for my morning dump. I always use the disabled toilet because it's private and I like the space. The toilet door was unlocked, so I opened it and to my surprise there was a bloke sat there with his pants around his ankles and a laptop on his knees looking very shocked to see me. Being British I immediately apologised, shut the door and walked away laughing to myself.
When I got back downstairs to my desk I told my two fellow trainees about the incident. I told them what I'd seen and thought the guy might have been mastur*****. Either that or sending a very important e-mail.
With it being a slow work day more people overheard our discussion and started to chime in and asked who it was. I said I didn't recognise the guy and (due to the way he was dressed) thought he worked in a different department. I thought that would be the end of it.
Ten minutes later my colleagues cousin came over from another department and asked him if he knew about the guy who was caught !!!!!!! in work. That !!!! spread like wildfire. No names, no nothing. Just a mysterious guy knuckling one out in the disabled toilet.
Soon after my supervisor approached me, she asked if I want to give a statement as another supervisor (nothing to do with me) had heard about it and wanted the guy to be disciplined. I said no, because I don't want a guy to be sacked because I walked in on him in the bathroom. It just wouldn't sit right on my conscience. My supervisor said that's fine, nothing else would come of it.
She was wrong. Soon after I had to speak with our shift manager. I was taken upstairs to an office and he made me give a statement in which I was 100% honest. I told him that I walked in on a bloke who had his pants around his ankles, laptop on his knees looking shocked and a little sweaty. He said fine and that would be all. I left feeling slightly dejected as I wished not to give a statement in the first place.
After working for a while longer I was re-approached by the manager, we went back to the office and he asked for more detail. By now I was feeling pretty sh1ty. He asked me if I thought he was masturbating and I said "well yeah, if you walk into a room where someone has their pants around their ankles, laptop on their knees looking sweaty and shocked to see you - what would you think?" He nodded and amended a part of my statement. I also told him to add "I was forced to make this statement by an entirely uninvolved third party who has heard of this event through chinese whispers". He did. I signed. I left.
Sound.
However today after dinner I was told to go back into the office while he was alongside a member of HR. They asked more questions about what I saw, what I said and what I did after seeing the situation. I told them everything. Again. Then she starts asking loaded questions and I get quite angry. I bottle it up to the best of my ability but I start asking questions myself.
It turns out that someones name has been thrown into the mix and I'm spreading rumours about him. Real playground !!!!!!!!. I asked her why I'd make up rumours about a man I've never met, and wouldn't recognize if I tripped over him in the street. She was unfazed and then asked some !!!!!!!! about how I'd feel if I were in this individuals situation. I said "I wouldn't be !!!!!!! in work for one" which went down like a lead balloon. In hindsight, probably shouldn't have said that. Tomorrow I need to read and sign my second statement, but I intend to change it in light of what they want to do to me.
Anyway, here's the point where I need help:
HR lady said that if no !!!!!! is found on that company laptop I will be given a warning or fired. I don't want either. I'm never late, I work hard, I keep myself to myself and I go home.
I told an anecdote about a bloke who may have been masturb***** to a couple of colleagues. The rumour mill spread that !!!!, the guys who watched the CCTV must've named the bloke and spread it around when I wasn't even in work, and I feel like I'm being made the fallguy because of it.
I don't know what to do. I don't want to lose my job, but I'm not going to roll over and take a verbal or written because some lad can't lock a door. Tomorrow I get a chance to revise my statement. What should I do/say?
On friday I was going for my morning dump. I always use the disabled toilet because it's private and I like the space. The toilet door was unlocked, so I opened it and to my surprise there was a bloke sat there with his pants around his ankles and a laptop on his knees looking very shocked to see me. Being British I immediately apologised, shut the door and walked away laughing to myself.
When I got back downstairs to my desk I told my two fellow trainees about the incident. I told them what I'd seen and thought the guy might have been mastur*****. Either that or sending a very important e-mail.
With it being a slow work day more people overheard our discussion and started to chime in and asked who it was. I said I didn't recognise the guy and (due to the way he was dressed) thought he worked in a different department. I thought that would be the end of it.
Ten minutes later my colleagues cousin came over from another department and asked him if he knew about the guy who was caught !!!!!!! in work. That !!!! spread like wildfire. No names, no nothing. Just a mysterious guy knuckling one out in the disabled toilet.
Soon after my supervisor approached me, she asked if I want to give a statement as another supervisor (nothing to do with me) had heard about it and wanted the guy to be disciplined. I said no, because I don't want a guy to be sacked because I walked in on him in the bathroom. It just wouldn't sit right on my conscience. My supervisor said that's fine, nothing else would come of it.
She was wrong. Soon after I had to speak with our shift manager. I was taken upstairs to an office and he made me give a statement in which I was 100% honest. I told him that I walked in on a bloke who had his pants around his ankles, laptop on his knees looking shocked and a little sweaty. He said fine and that would be all. I left feeling slightly dejected as I wished not to give a statement in the first place.
After working for a while longer I was re-approached by the manager, we went back to the office and he asked for more detail. By now I was feeling pretty sh1ty. He asked me if I thought he was masturbating and I said "well yeah, if you walk into a room where someone has their pants around their ankles, laptop on their knees looking sweaty and shocked to see you - what would you think?" He nodded and amended a part of my statement. I also told him to add "I was forced to make this statement by an entirely uninvolved third party who has heard of this event through chinese whispers". He did. I signed. I left.
Sound.
However today after dinner I was told to go back into the office while he was alongside a member of HR. They asked more questions about what I saw, what I said and what I did after seeing the situation. I told them everything. Again. Then she starts asking loaded questions and I get quite angry. I bottle it up to the best of my ability but I start asking questions myself.
It turns out that someones name has been thrown into the mix and I'm spreading rumours about him. Real playground !!!!!!!!. I asked her why I'd make up rumours about a man I've never met, and wouldn't recognize if I tripped over him in the street. She was unfazed and then asked some !!!!!!!! about how I'd feel if I were in this individuals situation. I said "I wouldn't be !!!!!!! in work for one" which went down like a lead balloon. In hindsight, probably shouldn't have said that. Tomorrow I need to read and sign my second statement, but I intend to change it in light of what they want to do to me.
Anyway, here's the point where I need help:
HR lady said that if no !!!!!! is found on that company laptop I will be given a warning or fired. I don't want either. I'm never late, I work hard, I keep myself to myself and I go home.
I told an anecdote about a bloke who may have been masturb***** to a couple of colleagues. The rumour mill spread that !!!!, the guys who watched the CCTV must've named the bloke and spread it around when I wasn't even in work, and I feel like I'm being made the fallguy because of it.
I don't know what to do. I don't want to lose my job, but I'm not going to roll over and take a verbal or written because some lad can't lock a door. Tomorrow I get a chance to revise my statement. What should I do/say?
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Just tell them you crave attention and need psychiatric help.
They'll believe you.0 -
Take up a creative writing class for those missing finishing touches?All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
Pedant alert - it's could have, not could of.0 -
This has been discussed at work quite recently,
http://www.refinery29.com/2017/01/135959/masturbation-boost-productivity-workplace
We have instructed our union rep to introduce it at the next pay and conditions talks.
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the accused could of been watching this on his lap top
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw0 -
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Deleted%20User wrote: »And how would you feel if anyone ever said this on one of your thread's?
One of their thread's what?0 -
I think you should both receive warnings for using a disabled loo when you clearly aren't!
'I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my father. Not screaming and terrified like his passengers.' (Bob Monkhouse).
Sky? Believe in better.
Note: win, draw or lose (not 'loose' - opposite of tight!)0 -
How come people have so much time to spend discussing this? Does nobody have any actual work to be getting on with?0
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Spidernick wrote: »I think you should both receive warnings for using a disabled loo when you clearly aren't!
you think disabled people are not capable of touching themselves up in toilets or something?0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPxGMSmd3is
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