Not my fault

[Summerfly413]

Our bathrooms are being redone and under construction right now.

Yes, us employees have bathrooms in the back. Customers obviously can't go back there for a plethora of reasons. We just went back to having two separate bathrooms after having a unisex bathroom for a few weeks. They had to close the women's bathroom to do work on the public bathrooms.

Well I was working one day, just straightening. Two women start to head back to the bathrooms. There's yellow signs and yellow tape and yellow cones blocking the way.
-I can normally tell when people are going back to the bathrooms, but I don't want to assume and it's useless to tell every person on their way back that the bathroom is closed at the moment.

So, they read the sign and turn around and start to pass by me. One of the women seems really irate by the bathrooms being closed. She mumbled something angerly to her friend, and I looked over. She looked at me and said "Yeah, I bet they have bathrooms for employees though!"
I didn't have anything to say, I just kind of stared at her. Then she goes "MmmmHMMMM" like it was all my fault and I personally closed the public bathrooms and made sure employees had a bathroom JUST TO annoy her.
There was no need to be so nasty.

[ralerin]

"Yeah, else it's called an OSHA violation. Then NO ONE would have bathrooms!"

Still, it's a toilet, what's to be nasty about?

[Tama]

If I have severe gastrointestinal problems that involve forceful expulsion, NOTHING is too nasty for me to say to you to get to your bathroom.

One way or another, some people *need* a bathroom. I'm not saying these women did, I'm just saying there are times when it comes to 'either you let me in there or there's going to be a BIG MESS.'

[Summerfly413]

Oh, I forgot to mention:

We do have port-a-potties out front. Two normal sized ones, and a large handicapped one. So it's not as if customers are without a bathroom. It's just not an ideal bathroom.

[Tama]

Hey, as long as it's a bathroom.

Those of us with IBS or other such problems do not (pardon the pun) give a sh** if it's a port-a-potty. I don't care if there are germs on the seat. I don't care how unsanitary it is.

A potty is a potty!

[Kristev]

Oh, I get so sick of invaders and whiners when I'm cleaning bathrooms. We have other bathrooms in the back.

But no, people will waste up to 20 minutes waiting on me, while I am trying to get the bathrooms clean. Even when they're told we have bathrooms in the back, they'll still wait where they are, or worse, run to a CSM who'll try to bully me.

As if bullying me to work faster will remove the handicaps that make me too slow and uncordinated to begin with. It didn't work with my mother and it won't work with some little manager. Nor will bullying me to let these whining consumers in dry up the rather dangerous chemicals I've used on the toilets, or dry up the floors. People will have to wait or go to the back. That's just the way it is.

But they don't want to do that. Primates.

[Tama]

Maybe some of us would prefer not to make another mess you'd have to clean up.

I've shoved into a bathroom before but only because both in the building were closed, and I *had* to go or I'd bust.

(With the people you spoke of above; I have no excuse for them)

[Andara Bledin]

While I feel for the plight of those of you who have found yourself in such circumstances: Your lack of planning does not constitute anyone else's emergency.

Don't whine at door guards asking to see your reciept, don't whine at clerks who require ID for certain purchases, and don't get pissy when the shop you're in has no public facilities. Those are all classic SC maneuvers.

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[XCashier]

Don't whine at door guards asking to see your reciept, don't whine at clerks who require ID for certain purchases, and don't get pissy when the shop you're in has no public facilities. Those are all classic SC maneuvers.

QFT. There are certain things you just can't get around, and complaining about it will only make you look like an idiot.

We don't have public facilities at our store because it's an old building (I would guess from the 1950s, if not earlier), and would require a major (as in, closing down the store for months and possibly needing heavy equipment) remodeling to get a public restroom in there. And letting customers use the employee bathroom would cause all sorts of liability issues. We're not denying you the bathroom just to be big meanies. Look around; in all likelihood there is a restaurant or other place with a public restroom nearby.

[siead_lietrathua]

While I feel for the plight of those of you who have found yourself in such circumstances: Your lack of planning does not constitute anyone else's emergency.

a lack of planning and having a sudden, unexpected need for a bathroom are not the same thing. plus, since they usually do have a public washroom that someone might have had in their "places to go bathroom" mental list, the store closing it would not be their fault as well.
there is a big difference between being an SC and just being sick.

those two ladies, though, since were in no seemingly dire need for a toilet, are totally suck :P

[South Texan]

"Yeah, I bet they have bathrooms for employees though!"

"No, ma'am. But management did provide us with corks."

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[Kristev]

We have 2 primary bathrooms per gender, a family restroom, and one other bathroom in the tire/lube zone. These people are acting as a matter of pure choice.

I am diabetic, and I can't last more than 45 minutes between bathroom trips myself. I hate to admit that as it's hard for me at work, but there's nothing I can do about it.

But I just go to one of the other bathrooms if someone's cleaning the nearest one. It itsn't that hard, just a couple of feet.

[Andara Bledin]

a lack of planning and having a sudden, unexpected need for a bathroom are not the same thing.

If you have a condition that sometimes requires a sudden need for facilities, then it would be in everybody's best interests if you equipped yourself accordingly.

If I had to deal with something that caused me the possibility of suddenly messing myself, I'd wear a flipping adult diaper. That's what they're for, and it's a hell of a lot less embarrassing than actually pissing or shitting myself. Sure, it'd suck, but I'd rather deal with the suck myself than pass it on to someone completely unrelated to the situation.

^-.-^

[siead_lietrathua]

If you have a condition that sometimes requires a sudden need for facilities, then it would be in everybody's best interests if you equipped yourself accordingly.

it may not always be a condition. plenty of people get bathroom emergencies from just eating a bad sandwich earlier in the day.
plus, as it is in the op, they normally do have a public bathroom. it was just out of order. so having that store on your "places with a bathroom" checklist is not bad planning.

[Dips]

The world doesn't owe everyone a toilet, regardless of medical condition.

Anyone who wants to debate whether private property owners are obligated to provide restrooms to random strangers with medical conditions, take it to fratching.

Please.