What part of "No public washroom" don't you get???

[chainedbarista]

"Does it matter? Heck, if you miss the Starbucks at the corner, there's another one right next to it! "

i can't begin to tell you how much i HATE that; we get every douch on the block wanting to come in for that and that only. at least buy something and contribute, sheesh.

that and they get rather snotty about it; wtf? be grateful you can use it at all, jackass.

i'm beginning to think, after the condition most people leave the restroom in, that we should install a litterbox or just a trench. filthy beasts...

[Kiwi]

God I just remembered all the anger and screaming we got when the craft store removed its publich bathroom..... holy cow

there was one in the store next door to us and the customers DEMANDED we know exactly where in the store it was.... god I dont know... I dont work there you idiot!

how can you not have a toilet? this is ridicules! sucky entitlement issues! superioroity complex! I want to see a manager! Cant we use the employees bathroom! Just this once! (yeah right)

the worst was parents who refused to line up again after taking their young kids to the bathroom, they made them wait, so the kids were dancing around with the "gottapee" dance whining..... and of course, its my fault...

[Jester]

Now explaining to people that NO you can not use the phone..... thats becoming a problem!

A restaurant I used to work at solved that problem really easily. There were two phones in the place, the office phone and the one at the front door. Now, customers were not allowed in the back of the house where the office was, and the front door phone was programmed so the only numbers that could be dialed out were for cab companies, so that the staff could call cabs for guests. Any other outgoing number wouldn't work. I am not always thrilled with management, but whichever management staff put that little gem in gets my award for Real Man/Woman of Genius.

[Mad-Bassist]

Every store I've worked had a public bathroom, so my amusement didn't start until I worked at my last hotel. Yes, it wasn't a public bathroom, but we also didn't allow people back there because it was our storage room. Can't have people looking at seven years worth of credit card receipts!

I love it when they ask where I go. I had two answers: "I go upstairs by the meeting rooms" before offering them an elevator key. Usually they were on their way to renting a room, so why ask in the lobby anyway?

My other answer was, "Sorry, that's a trade secret." Makes 'em wonder about me. Heh heh.

[pbmods]

Whenever a customer asks to use our restroom, I tell him it's flooded. Not only does the customer believe it, but it puts him in a good mood about it because then we joke about it for a few sentences. Then I tell him to try Starbucks at the corner.

"Which corner?"
"Does it matter? Heck, if you miss the Starbucks at the corner, there's another one right next to it! "

[Rine]

The one question I'm tired of answering is "where is the bathroom?" I mean, it's weird when the very first customers of the day come into the store and they all run up to the restroom. Doesn't anyone "go" before going out? I also don't like it when customers try to get me to tell them where the employee's restrooms are after I tell them that our restrooms are on the second floor. My answer for that usually is "we don't have employee restrooms" or "ours is on the second floor too." You wouldn't believe how many people complain about having to walk upstairs to use the bathroom. Sigh.

[Seanette]

I completely understand, but I do disagree on what tiny little point.

There is a KB Toys near us. It's a store geared specifically towards kids.
They don't have a public bathroom. How can you have a toy store without a public bathroom? Pure idiocy.

As a result of that, we don't shop there anymore. We're potty training and we just can't take the risk.

I don't have kids, but have enough experience with toddlers to totally agree with you here. I've been in at least one toy store where I saw an employee cleaning up a "mishap" by a young customer.

I'm not squeamish (except for vomit), but I don't know if I'd want to work in a toy store or pet store, where you *know* a significant percentage of the clientele are not reliably housebroken.

[Mighty Girl]

I completely understand, but I do disagree on what tiny little point.

There is a KB Toys near us. It's a store geared specifically towards kids.
They don't have a public bathroom. How can you have a toy store without a public bathroom? Pure idiocy.

As a result of that, we don't shop there anymore. We're potty training and we just can't take the risk.

[Kiwi]

Im lucky we have a public washroom right by the entrance. Our one is tucked out of site just for us

yay clean employee bathrooms!

Now explaining to people that NO you can not use the phone..... thats becoming a problem!

[batmoody]

The only downside to that line is that you might get the question, "How can you possibly not have a restroom? What do employees use, then?" and I have no clue how you'd answer that one.

"We actually "go" before we leave the house."
or
"Depends, aisle 8 on the left"

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I thought that was an odd way of putting it, until I realized by "bum" you meant "tramp."

Yes, I meant street people. She works downtown in another city, and there are a lot of panhandlers and street people down there.

[AFpheonix]

\ "How can you possibly not have a restroom? What do employees use, then?" and I have no clue how you'd answer that one (at least, how you'd answer it with a straight face and not get in trouble--I can think of lots of sarcastic answers).

I suppose you could get a pail to keep behind the register that you could write "honey bucket" on and tie an air freshener to the handle....

[Sofar]

My sister works in a law library, and got tired of bums filing in and out of there all the time using the bathroom.

I thought that was an odd way of putting it, until I realized by "bum" you meant "tramp."

[CrazedClerk]

I've thought about saying "no bathroom". Problem is the building I work in is very new (only open since April) and most people can probably figure out we do indeed have a bathroom, I'd hate to work in a place that didn't have one.

I used to work in an arcade and the only bathrooms we had access to there were the public ones the customers used as well. Oh what fun that was.

[Kyree]

I used to work in a store at the Mall of America. Most of the stores in there dont have their own bathroom. I worked on the third floor in the corner...if any of us had to go to the bathroom, we'd have to walk down the hallway to Sears or whatever big department store we were closest to (Can't remember off the top of my head.), and across to the other side of that store, then down an escalator to get to the bathrooms.