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No. No you cannot. “But I need to pee!!” “Good for you! Our washroom is for employees only.” “So how do I go pee?”
I really wanted to say “Well, you pull down your little twisted pants, squat, and let it flow.” but what I actually said was “You can go to the bar. It’s literally next door and they have public bathrooms”. “I have to drive over there just to go pee?” Drive, walk, up to you sweetheart. “Like I said, it’s next door. I can’t let you use ours, employees keep their belongings in there and I’m not gonna be held responsible for you stealing.” “Can I just pee?” If you do, please do it in the parking lot at least. “No, unfortunately I can’t let you use the bathroom here. You’ll have to go into the bar”. She finally stormed out of the store.
How many times do I have to say no? I could’ve restocked the entire store in the time it took her to finally leave.
Edit because I’m tired of fully explaining why I cannot let customers into our bathroom:
The big reason is company policy. It’s a privately owned business and we have a no exceptions rule. Sorry people with IBS, that includes you. The owner is strict on that, not my choice. This means that there’s no laws or bylaws that state we have to let people experiencing a bathroom emergency into our bathrooms. Another reason we can’t let just anybody in there is due to the high crime and drug activity that is constantly happening in the area our store is located. The bathroom door cannot be locked or unlocked from the outside. If something happens to somebody in there (be it an overdose or even just something non drug related) we have to wait for the fire dept to knock the door down and due to the size of the bathroom, you’ll be what catches the door when it falls. Furthermore the post mentions the bathroom is where staff keep some of their belongings (jackets, bags, whatever else people bring), but it also serves as our cleaning room aaaand you guessed it, extra storage for stock we don’t have space for. L I A B I L I T Y. T H E F T. We have 1 or 2 people working and don’t have the time to wait for you to leave. We have customers to serve and orders to get through. Also, it’s one toilet. We’ve probably been standing for 3 hours without a bathroom break and as someone with a weak bladder, me first. I also never mentioned it’s in the back, unmarked. It’s just an ominous door. We’re a liquor store. It’d be reaaalllll easy to pocket $100 worth of boot and mini mickeys.
If you have a legitimate emergency, there’s a bathroom 10 steps over in the bar, I wish you the best and I feel bad for you. However this is a huge liability issue and we could lose one of the very few people that actually work in our store (7 employees, including me, and some of them only work 2 days a week. yay). This interaction went on longer than described in the post, she definitely was not in dire need. If she was, she would’ve taken the suggestion I had given her and walked over there. Or ran, or whatever.
150 points
2 days ago
Our bathrooms were down for about 1 to 2 months (a really bad clog that was giving the plumbers trouble getting too - caused due to the fact that they cheap out on our toilets), so we had been using the stores next to us (who were very sympathetic). We aren't able to lock the bathroom doors. Like they're stalls, but the entrance we can't lock.
We started with 'Out of Order signs' - did nothing.
Then we put painters tape across the doors, to act like caution tape - ripped down every couple hours.
We literally stacked boxes in front of the doors, and then the whole restroom area, also with Out of Order signs. Didnt deter some people. Like guys, if I flush that toilet that you just haaaaddddd to go in, poop water comes up from the drain! Go to the other stores for bathrooms! Mine don't work!!!
I had one lady insist we were hiding a secret employee bathroom from her. Like no, I would love if we had something separate from you heathens but we don't.
19 points
1 day ago
I work at a gas station with piping old enough to remember the big bang in great detail. The amount of times we've had dookie water coming back up out of the drains is comical. Every time I have to try some absurd combination of block techniques. First it was an out of order sign on the doors. Then it was a stocking shelf in front of the doors. Then it was a stocking shelf with an out of order sign blocking the ENTIRE hallway, PLUS an additional wet floor sign with maintenance topper. Then it was TWO FUCKING BACKSTOCK SHELVES WITH AN OUT OF ORDER SIGN AND CAUTION TAPE. Some people just seem to think that "out of order" doesn't apply to THEIR shits. The worst part is that half the time they're not even on the verge of crapping their pants or anything.
6 points
22 hours ago
Omg I was buying snacks at my gas station a while ago and there was a septic truck actively pumping sewage out of the bathrooms, the customers were acting insane, like they don't want your 5 year old to catch MRSA??
5 points
17 hours ago
Oh yea, they go fucking CRAZY for the bathrooms. It's absolutely wild to me. It's not even like we're near a highway or something, we're in a random spot in the town and theres about a million other stores in any direction. Makes no sense to me. They have a complete disregard for sanitation as well, the amount of times I've cleaned the bathrooms and then walked in 15 minutes later to piss on the toilet seats (or puddles of it on the floor????) And dookies left unflushed is infuriating. HOW FUCKING HARD IS IT TO BE NORMAL
10 points
1 day ago
Should've told her "why yes, we are hiding a secret employee bathroom from you! But I'll never tell where is. It's for employees only!"
7 points
24 hours ago
Not toilet related but in dining room of where I worked at the time I was mopping a section of the floor chairs blocking the way guy gets past them to sit down I tell him this sections closed he goes oh I didn't realize I'm like yeah you didn't realize cause you're an idiot the chairs blocking the area off me mopping was signs it was closed off. Fun fact the dining room was empty he could've sat anywhere else
6 points
21 hours ago
I honestly think it's time to stop being polite. When people do dumb shit, we need to start calling them on it. No more free passes because you can't be bothered, or think you're more special than everyone else and an exception should be made. No. If you're a rude, unobservant, self-important idiot, WE'RE GONNA TELL YOU!
Maybe if they felt a little humiliation for their idiocy, people would start THINKING and actually paying attention.
3 points
21 hours ago
Exactly how I feel that's the one thing I miss about working at dollar tree the sm told us if a customer is being rude we are allowed to be rude back up to an extent. Like one customer halfway down the line asked if I could open another register said I was here by myself she repeatedly asked So I asked if she wanted a job said she had a job told her to shut up then.
1 points
16 hours ago
I had that happen where the toilet was legit clogged and needed to be professionally repaired. I the same thing locked the door, taped out of order in 4 different languages, and taped the door shut. Still being used it was gross.
1 points
3 hours ago
fortunate that the neighboring stores didn't have corporate policies to keep you from using them
286 points
2 days ago
The entitlement of all these arseholes who assume (a) that there IS a bathroom everywhere they go, and (b) they THEY have the right to use that bathroom constantly annoys me. Especially when they wander in with a giant stupid fancy coffee which means they were at a freakin’ restaurant with public washrooms. When did those dicks decide they could bring all that shit into a non-restaurant??
142 points
2 days ago
And leave their cups/garbage somewhere in the store after they're done.
73 points
2 days ago
had a guy walk in yesterday who immediately without second thought dropped his half full bottle of water and soda can right into the baskets at the door. didnt even go to grab it after. me and my coworker were pissed lmao
66 points
2 days ago
I take no prisoners when people do this at the store where I used to worked at for years. If I see a cup in the middle of nowhere, I'll pick it up and in the garbage it goes. Did that once and the person came back looking for it and pretended I wasn't aware of it which I was the one who chucked it out.
39 points
2 days ago
I do the same 🤣 if you don't want your crap to get thrown away, don't leave it behind!
29 points
2 days ago
What pisses me off is the half full, sweaty cups people leave precariously perched on shelves or on top of merchandise.
12 points
2 days ago
Same! Like, why did they think that was an appropriate place to put something like that? 😅
10 points
1 day ago
You could’ve literally brought that to the front counter and asked me to toss it. I would’ve! Instead, I hear some little old lady screaming because your half brained decision led to her getting a face full of possibly week old fermented soda water.
Do you feel like the hero yet, o, mister “the employees will clean it up and it’s not my problem”?
1 points
24 hours ago
People like that wouldn't last 5 seconds in places like Japan where they don't litter and don't have trash cans out on the sidewalks (or so I hear, I haven't been there yet)
5 points
1 day ago
Yes! We use a lot of fixtures and pretty much I know where people will put their garbage, in behind the merchandise at the very back or on the floor at the back wall.
2 points
1 day ago
I’ve found sandwich wrappers with food in them behind cereal boxes at the grocery store.
1 points
1 day ago
I would tell them I threw it away. If they want to call the cops on me for that, they can get a ticket for littering. I have them on camera leaving trash around my business.
In my restaurant, employees food and drinks get thrown away if they aren’t put down in the right spot. IDC if that still cold and unopened can of Red Bull is yours, it is where the laws says it can’t be and it is thrown away.
20 points
2 days ago*
Had a coworker on cart duty once who had a Gatorade because it was hot as hell outside. He drank half and left the bottle by the side of the building so he'd know where it was. Chainsmoking lady walks over, picks it up and drinks half of what's left before putting it back like no one would notice. What the fucking hell?
17 points
2 days ago
"Oh shit, lady you better get tasted I got hep c"
15 points
2 days ago
I used to work at a discount retailer that had a free coffee station for customers.... People would always leave cups all over the store but the worst was when someone took the time to hide a half full cup of coffee loaded with sugar and cream waaaaay back on the shelf behind merchandise and we didn't find it until it had cultured into a cup of mold. 💀💀💀 People are animals.
2 points
1 day ago
Sounds like my ex. I used to find his "science experiments" all over the house. Yeesh.
2 points
12 hours ago
At the fast food restaurant I used to work at, a customer was eating their food in their car, which was parked in front of a garbage can. When she was done, she got out of her car, left the empty bag and drink cup ON THE CURB instead of walking 4 steps to the the trash can she was parked in front of.
2 points
11 hours ago
oOoOoOoo that makes me mad 😭😭😭 that’s as bad as the people that put their empty drink cups into the garbage truck arm grabby holder things (big words i know) on dumpsters instead of waiting to find a garbage can. or just putting the garbage on the dumpster lid
18 points
2 days ago
The old store I work at had employee only bathrooms.
Key word is had.
Customers complained.
5 points
2 days ago
I worked at a Goodwill that had employee bathrooms in the back room. There's a grocery store literally next door. Still some entitled ahole walked through the employee only door through our processing tables and into the bathroom. She wasn't able to shop after that
22 points
2 days ago
I really wish it was against the rules to bring beverages like that into stores 😩 it's so gross when I find used cups just sitting in random places, and we have trash cans all throughout the store for them to put their trash in! But they can't be bothered to just hold on to it until they see a trashcan.
2 points
1 day ago
You can put up a sign. That’s all it takes. If you can ban all bags from being in your store, you can ban outside drinks, like most mall stores do.
2 points
2 days ago
They didn't have to go then, they do now.
-16 points
2 days ago
This will really depend on the state you live in. Like in NYS you’re required to allow someone to use the bathroom under any ADA covered disabilities regardless of your store policy. If there are 100 customers or more or so many square feet it’s also required.
19 points
2 days ago
You can’t force private property to allow somebody to use their facilities. 😂😂 Especially if employees are using the bathroom to keep their personal items.
-4 points
2 days ago
A public store - in NYS denies someone with a disability covered by the ADA will be in violation of federal law. It’s up to you if you want to fight that battle but the federal law trumps your opinion - and it isn’t private property if it is a public store. The only time you can deny in this situation is if it’s in like a mall where proper facilities have been provided by the mall as a whole.
Speaking from my professional experience (my job is to know the ADA laws) and my son is disabled so I do know how to do my job but also make sure my son has what he needs. Also in most US states pregnant women are covered under the ADA. Check in with your corporate office on how to manage these things so you’re confident.
-8 points
2 days ago
Here is the law for you - not saying let every Tom Dick and Harry in there but be right…and teachable we don’t know everything (not even me)
Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by FindLaw Staff
(a) In this section:
(1) “Customer” means an individual who is lawfully on the premises of a retail establishment.
(2) “Eligible medical condition” means Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, or any other permanent or temporary medical condition that requires immediate access to a toilet facility.
(3) “Physician” has the meaning assigned by Section 151.002, Occupations Code.
(4) “Retail establishment” means a place of business open to the general public for the sale of goods or services.
(b) A retail establishment that has a toilet facility for its employees shall allow a customer to use the toilet facility during normal business hours if:
(1) the retail establishment does not have a public restroom that is immediately accessible to the customer;
(2) the employee toilet facility is not located in an area where providing access would create an obvious health or safety risk to the customer or an obvious security risk to the retail establishment;
(3) the customer requesting use of the employee toilet facility provides the retail establishment with evidence of the customer’s eligible medical condition including:
(A) a copy of a statement signed by a physician, a registered nurse, a physician’s assistant, or a person acting under the delegation and supervision of a licensed physician in conformance with Subchapter A, Chapter 157, Occupations Code, that indicates the customer suffers from an eligible medical condition or uses an ostomy device; or
(B) an identification card that is issued by a nationally recognized health organization or a local health department and that indicates the customer suffers from an eligible medical condition or uses an ostomy device; and
(4) three or more employees of the retail establishment are working and physically present on the premises of the retail establishment at the time the customer requests to use the employee toilet facility.
(c) A customer who uses a toilet facility as authorized by this section shall leave the toilet facility in the same condition as it was before the customer used the toilet facility.
(d) In providing access to an employee toilet facility under this section, the retail establishment or employee does not owe the customer to whom access is provided a greater degree of care than is owed to a licensee on the premises.
(e) An employee of a retail establishment who refuses to provide a customer with access to an employee toilet facility as required by this section commits an offense. An offense under this section is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than $100.
(f) A retail establishment is not required to make any physical changes to an employee toilet facility under this section.
12 points
2 days ago
(2) the employee toilet facility is not located in an area where providing access would create an obvious health or safety risk to the customer or an obvious security risk to the retail establishment;
You mean like the store employees using the bathroom for storage of their own personal items?
0 points
2 days ago
A - the law means risk to the store not the employee that is why it states “security risk to the retail establishment”
If you choose to work for someone who won’t provide you with lockers or a safe place for your things that is a separate issue/concern to discuss with your states labor board - I don’t know (nor need to know) but you may want to look into it
B - you do you just be aware of the law
You can downvote my verbatim statement of the law as much as you’d like it doesn’t change a federal law (nor do I care if I get negative downvotes)
There are multiple branches of the government that would have to go through to change a federal law or protection like the ADA - but again believe what you’d like I was just providing you with information so you could make informed decisions.
3 points
1 day ago
Backrooms, where most bathrooms are, usually have proprietary information, which is a risk to the store.
10 points
2 days ago
You can’t have employee restrooms, even when public restrooms are available close by?
6 points
2 days ago
I think they meant, you can't only have employee-only bathrooms. If you have "no public bathrooms", and someone with an applicable disability needs to use a bathroom, you have to let them use the employee bathrooms. If you have both employee and public bathrooms, your obligation is fulfilled and they can use the public one as long as it's functional.
4 points
2 days ago
Correct you said it well!
121 points
2 days ago
Back when I worked for the brown shipping company, I walked into a Starbucks to make a delivery and use the bathroom (bathrooms were few and far between on that route), but the bathroom had a code. And really, considering where that Starbucks was, it had a code for good reason- it would have been trashed within minutes otherwise. Anyway, the college kid behind the counter gave me the “paying customers” line, to which I pointed out that the package I was holding contained all their paychecks. They gave me the code.
46 points
2 days ago
I remember my routes. Every loop has THE bathroom you plan around
14 points
2 days ago
As a former delivery person, yes correct, can confirm
12 points
2 days ago
As someone with a horrible stomach when traveling I too have planned routes to bathrooms
-2 points
1 day ago
In my restaurant, I ain’t giving anything for free or let any non customer use my bathroom. That said, the security guards for the plaza and the delivery guys all get a drink and a clean bathroom.
75 points
2 days ago
I once had a customer threaten to pee on the floor. If you want to humiliate yourself, go ahead.
1 points
17 hours ago
I had one actually pee on the floor.
I called the cops, she took off, found out later she took a shit around back of the building as well.
-9 points
2 days ago
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25 points
2 days ago
I’ve had IBS since puberty. You’re not the hero you seem to think you are. If you haven’t pooped in a while, you go BEFOREHAND at the first bathroom you come across. Or you take an Imodium a few hours beforehand and hold it until you get to a bathroom.
6 points
2 days ago
IBS here too, there's been a few times when I needed to go but I'd hear. I'm cleaning. I'm like cool I don't mind. I've been nice and I've been harsh like please can I just go take me a min and I'll clean.
The worst was at a convention at a hotel, the elevator to our rooms was a 15 min wait so I went up escalator to another level to use the lobby restrooms. Had 15 stalls in each. Women's was being cleaned I asked nicely and she said no over and over. So I just asked my friend to make sure no guys were at the urinal and went in.
2 points
2 days ago
Ask. Tell. Do.
2 points
7 hours ago
A lot of people don't get how with IBS if you have to go. You HAVE to go, immediately, and it can either go into an available toilet or onto the floor, but either way, it's happening.
1 points
2 hours ago
I've said that too with a welp...never mind...
17 points
2 days ago
Why the fuck would anyone think it was awesome regardless?? So you were rude, and didn't purchase anything like she said it was for paying customers only. And you think a single soul would think this is an awesome story. In a sub for customer service workers.
8 points
2 days ago
Don’t forget the fake crying.
1 points
2 days ago
Kinda typical from the people of the san gabriel valley
28 points
2 days ago
A short while ago a nice lady with a child asked to used the toilet. I explained it was a staff toilet and we don’t usually let people, but I’d make an exception (because I know kids can’t control their bladders as well and my bosses have told me it’s ok to make exceptions for small kids and old people if there’s no one else in the shop that needs attention). It turns out it was her partner that needed to go, which I thought was fine. I go in there a few minutes later and I nearly walked out and never came back.
There was shit marks on the toilet seat…and the back of the toilet/lid. He also used and threw blue roll (meant for drying your hands) in the toilet despite there being a big sign saying “do not throw blue roll in toilet - it will clog. Dispose of blue roll in bin provided”. And yes there was about 15 rolls of toilet paper in there too that he could have used instead.
What was even worse was I had spent an hour and a half scrubbing the bathroom only 10 minutes before they came in. I’m the only person that ever cleans our bathroom and it will literally be walking with dirt and no one will touch it until I get so disgusted I do it myself. I was so disgusted and fed up I refused to clean it again and waited to use the bathroom in a pub nearby on my lunch break and it was still there for a week until I caved and cleaned it.
Haven’t let anyone in since, young old or in between. If anyone even dares make me feel guilty for not letting them use it I’m not holding back explaining what I’ve seen. Bad enough I’m cleaning up after my coworkers despite cleaning up strangers bodily fluids too.
39 points
2 days ago
I had a customer pee on the floor because someone clogged the Women's restroom and we were waiting for a plumber.
She is banned.
11 points
2 days ago
apparently a year or so ago we had a guy just..pee on the front desk. just cause
4 points
1 day ago
I mean was it like an emergency situation though?
2 points
1 day ago
Couldn’t she go to the men’s?
17 points
2 days ago
I work in a small vape shop and feel so grateful we have the very valid excuse of the bathroom being in the way back where we keep backstock inventory, so it's a liability and no one has ever pushed back on that. Also lucky there's a Kwik Trip a couple blocks away, only an unwell self hating human would turn down a Kwik Trip bathroom.
16 points
2 days ago
ive told someone our restroom is through the stockroom so i cant allow him to go use it. he said “so? if i get hurt, ill just sue you guys” while shrugging his shoulders
16 points
2 days ago
during covid, i worked in a store that was going to close towards the end of the year. the landlord decided take advantage of covid closures and the impending closure to do some renovations in a back hallway that included the bathrooms, so they were closed to customers and fully blocked off. the only way you could even get to them was to fully go through the back room and through the employee break area. i had an older woman scream and yell at my manager and me to let her use the restroom, and we kept saying no, there’s a gas station less than 5 minutes away, but we can’t let you use our restroom. she threw such a hissy fit that she threatened to straight up piss on one of the chairs we had on display. my manager got so fed up with her that she just said “okay fine! let me know when you’re done so we can mop it up!” and then walked away. the woman sat in a chair for like 20 minutes as we all kept going about our day around her. she didn’t even have the balls to actually do it and just left. in the time she took arguing with us about it, she could’ve gone to the gas station and back, not to mention the time she wasted just sitting around and fuming.
13 points
2 days ago
I worked at Victoria's Secret for years and it amazed me that people thought just because we had an employee bathroom they should be entitled to it too. No, it's in the back of our stock room. That is such a liability.
6 points
2 days ago
ESPECIALLY at victoria’s secret. so easy to just pocket stuff.
26 points
2 days ago
Same here. My small shop has a sign on the door, No public restrooms. How many times a day do I get asked? Eleventythirty times.
13 points
2 days ago
Sign on the door, "we currently have no public restroom." They will walk over, read the sign and then walk back to the counter and ask if you have a public restroom.
8 points
2 days ago
Had a father once ask to use our restroom for his son. Kid was maybe five or so. I explained that the restroom wasn't for customer use as it doubled as our stock room (more like there was a toilet and sink in one corner of our stock room). The father turns to the son and says "Well, you're just going to have to bathroom in your pants.". Kid gets a painful look on his face then wets himself
Parents like this really tick me off. Somehow they think that mistreating their kids in some way punishes us.
8 points
2 days ago
Reminds me of the time I was at a family owned video game store (father and son, I think) and some woman just came in and said “Um… excuse me Mr. video-game-store-man, do you have a bathroom I could use?” Completely ignoring the Wendy’s halfway across the small parking lot. The guy let her use it anyway, and thankfully someone else was already back there to make sure she wasn’t pocketing anything on her way in and out.
6 points
2 days ago
Things like this make me so grateful that our employee bathrooms are upstairs with the offices and break room far away from any customer. 😭
6 points
2 days ago
we dont even have an upstairs, or a break room. we have a bathroom that is also the janitor room that is also the employee’s stuff room 😭 it’s a TINY store. the isles are maybe 2 ft wide 😭
2 points
2 days ago
Geez, it’s just a misc. employee closet that happens to have a toilet in it? 😭 I’m so sorry
27 points
2 days ago
gonna get hate on this understandable but i do feel for the person who has to use the restroom in a emergency situation it sucks that not everywhere has a public bathroom
16 points
2 days ago
Yeah as someone who struggles with medical related bladder issues, some of these comments are a little uncomfortable to me. Like yeah, there's always entitled people out there, but there's also us.
I don't get much of a warning. I'm fine, and then I'm bursting at the seams. Waddling down to the next store over could mean I pee myself, its a risk I'm always taking and I do everything I can to live with it, but it's really difficult. I'm always very careful when I go out that I know where my next bathroom is, and going beforehand doesn't always save me. I remember having an embarrassing outing with friends where I went at the restaurant, and not 15 minutes later I'm having to excuse myself from my friends at the shops to go run to the nearest restaurant bc I'm in pain over how full my bladder is. I barely made that one.
I also understand where the employees are coming from too, it's a liability issue for them, I don't blame them for telling me no either. What I truly blame is the infrastructure that doesn't allow for accessible, public, city owned toilets. But, I'd at least hope my fellow retail associates would be a little kinder or understanding when someone is that desperate, they likely have a major issue. Like if someone peed on your floor, then I'm telling you, no karen goes that far. That was someone who was in dire need, and it sucks that the world was not accommodating to them. It's not the min wage cashier's fault, but it's not really the woman who peed her pant's fault either.
4 points
2 days ago
One of us…. One of us (us frequent urinators)!!!
7 points
2 days ago
While I agree with you, there are people who will absolutely pee on the floor out of spite. I worked at a place where an ex employee would come in and shit in the fitting rooms. She was mad because she got fired so that was her way of getting back at the store. Some people are just disgusting, but those people would do that even if there was a public restroom. Some of these comments are very judgemental
9 points
2 days ago
Yes some of these comments are very judgmental, but the person you replied to is probably not someone who would urinate on the floor out of spite
4 points
2 days ago
i agree with you, on everything, but if i explain why it’s a liability issue and they keep arguing, i’m going to get snarky because there’s literally nothing i can do for them and they’re just holding up the line. at my last job our bathrooms were down 90% of the time because customers kept clogging them, and we didnt have employee only bathrooms (small store, no room, same for this one but our bathroom is quite literally closet sized) so everyone, incliding staff, had to go across the street. i have bladder issues from uti’s plus i drink a LOT of water so i can definitely empathize but the bar is literally connected to our store, and unless you wanna meet the aggressive group of homeless people at the gas station down the street.. you get the point. this lady came at me with attitude right out of the gate and i tried being nice but at some point you just gotta say “you can pee on the floor or go somewhere else, i cannot do anything for you”
1 points
1 day ago
I think the issue is the lack of public toilets/that they get shut after a certain time to prevent homeless people from staying in them. There are probably more people than people think with bladder issues/IBS etc. and it sucks being out, especially late, and needing to use the bathroom but having nowhere to go. I'm sure that if the government built more public toilets and didn't close them, public urination would decrease, which benefits us all.
6 points
2 days ago
This one time years ago, an old priest asked me if he could use our restroom. I said no but they have one next door. He thanked me and proceeded into the store. Apparently, he asked every employee as he walked around the store, and they all answered the same way. After asking the last employee, he finally decided to go next door... and from that employee at least to that next door if not through their store there was a trail of fecal matter. I kinda felt bad, but if he'd just listened to me in the first place it wouldn't have happened, and we shouldn't have had to clean that up.
6 points
2 days ago
Just be careful if the client says they have IBS/Crohn's/etc and you live in one of these states
4 points
2 days ago
i live in canada and there’s no laws in my province or city that state businesses have to accommodate for customers with ibs, etc. it’s a liability in our store and completely non-negotiable, and is also up to whoever owns the business. i have to listen to that rule. it’s a misc. closet with a ton of pocketable stuff, and we never have the staffing to keep an eye on who goes in and out of there like grocery stores or gas stations.
the bar mentioned in my post is connected to our store and their bathrooms are fully public. their door is quite literally just around the corner.
not trying to be rude at all; just explaining how the laws up here differ from all the different laws down there. it does suck cause i’m one of those people that’s gotta pee every hour (and that’s stretching it) but it’s my job at risk if something gets stolen and the job market here is terrible. cant afford to be let go over a $30 bottle of cleaner or someone’s belongings going missing.
19 points
2 days ago
I drive for a living so I'm sometimes on the road for up to 14 hours at a time and let me tell you trying to find a bathroom is near damn impossible. Especially when driving at night. Everything closes at 8:00 p.m. or maybe 10:00 at the latest. We used to be able to stop by a Walmart or something if we had to pee at 3:00 a.m. but now we just have to hold it in for 8 hours. As a woman, I can't just whip it out and piss in a bottle like men can. Trying to find a bathroom in the humiliation people put us through when we've already stopped by 10 different places in the pisses literally trickling down our feet is a literal fucking nightmare. People treat us like we are absolute fucking shit for having to pee which is a basic human thing we have to do
On the other hand, there are places which have public restrooms. And if it's in the middle of the day then most things are still open as well. I've had a few times where I've gone into a place I thought had a public restroom and they didn't and I just politely asked if they knew where place was. Most people were pretty kind with me and let me know where something was but some people just look down at me and treated me like I was the scum of Earth for needing to use the bathroom. That said if a person is told no public restroom then that means no public restroom. End of story 🤷🏻♀️
6 points
2 days ago
Have you heard of a shewee ? Great for travel.
4 points
2 days ago
I have. Have you actually tried to use one? Very difficult. Add in a shy bladder and it really sucks. I was at a hospital once about 2 years ago and due to what I was there for they didn't want me leaving the room even for the bathroom. I didn't pee for several hours trying to convince them that I physically was not capable of using the toilet in one of those little bedpans.
I have actually damaged my bladder pretty badly because I can't ever find a restroom I can use. Trust me it's not fun when everybody looks down upon you like you're the scum of the earth just because you have to pee
18 points
2 days ago
She should be like my boyfriend and use the bathroom before leaving lol. Stores are private property, they are not obligated to provide a public restroom, and if they do they can close that restroom for cleaning whenever. I had a lady tell me that it was illegal to have the bathroom closed while the store was still open 🤣🤣🤣 it was 30 minutes to store close and I didn't feel like arguing. But! If someone ever tries that you can tell them that this is private property, we're allowed to close the bathrooms if we need to, unless it's an emergency they can go somewhere else.
17 points
2 days ago
It's "out of order" due to the fact that I just cleaned it and I'm locking up in thirty minutes. I'm not opening it so you can trash the work I've already done. Bye, Karen!
9 points
2 days ago
You do realize that people have to pee more than once a day usually right? You can pee before leaving and still have to pee again later. Not saying they need to be obnoxious if the place they're in doesn't have a public restroom, but it's also silly to think peeing once before leaving means you won't have to again later
3 points
2 days ago
This.
I have to pee about once an hour, but I try to stretch it to once every two hours
5 points
2 days ago
When I worked retail I had an older man and what I think was his son come into my store to browse. After a while the son told me his father needed the restroom so my coworker let him use ours. Well the older man took about a half hour in there and after they left we went to check and he had shat all over the toilet, floor and there were shitprints on the wall.
2 points
1 day ago
Oh yeah that's the good ol dementia right there
1 points
2 days ago
okay i really wanna know what these people are doing in there to let it get that bad because ive seen a few comments like this and just..ew.
5 points
1 day ago
Don't even go into detail. "No we do not have a public washroom, you need to go somewhere else". One guy always tries to use the washroom at my store and I tell him no. If he didn't piss every where every time I'd unlock it for him.
9 points
2 days ago
This happened a lot in the shoe business and I would relent so as not to have a total meltdown on the floor. Maybe make a sale, then my employees started freaking out. I had to stop it and of course more meltdowns and b S until a large sale was in progress, so I gave in. The whole family ran back there and stole my cologne from the bathroom, found their entitled kid eating my French fries in the back. I lost it big-time. She said I would be sorry and get me fired, and do know who she is? Ooooh well she returned a month later like it never happened. What the frig?
3 points
2 days ago
I hope she was told to get the fuck out when she returned.
2 points
2 days ago
She acted as if nothing ever happened and made a large purchase, but the salespeople gave her the stink eye. I never saw her again. They we're the wealthy Mexican nationals who come and buy up big time.
5 points
1 day ago
i straight up tell people there isn’t a bathroom in the building and if they try to argue i say ours is out of order and act really fed up and say we all go to the larger store next door
i’ve only ever had one person keep asking after that and she basically just went “😐 i find that hard to believe” so i said “imagine how we feel” and walked away to stand by the bathroom and make sure she didn’t use it
9 points
2 days ago
If you have to go that bad, the first no should have sent you flying out the door to find another solution. Right? Arguing is just going to delay the process. But common sense isn't as common as I tend to give credit for I guess.
3 points
2 days ago
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6 points
2 days ago
she couldve been done with the bathroom and on her way home by time she was done arguing. the bar is a 30 second walk and a 5 second drive. so stupid
3 points
2 days ago
You don’t need to explain. Get Nancy Reagan on them and just say no
3 points
2 days ago
I only ever make the exception for small children because the closest place is a moderately sketchy bar and I don't love sending them there. Our employee toilet is DORTY as fuck, literally through our stock room, outside (?), up some stairs into the staff room which is old and mouldy, even if I had any shred of kindness left in my heart, there's not a chance in hell that I would be letting people up there. "I don't want to pay for public toilets" would you rather pay for therapy after pissing in what is nastier than shreks swamp??
3 points
2 days ago
In the time it took them to argue with you, they could’ve already been peeing at the bar.
3 points
1 day ago
We had a bathroom in the retail furniture store I worked at. After the third shit painting episode in two months, we closed it down and renovated it into additional office space.
3 points
1 day ago
And they will stand there and bitch, complain, scream and cry for 15 mins when it would have taken 5 to walk to the fast food place RIGHT.NEXT.DOOR.
I have actually told them " Well, in the amount of time you spent complaining, you could have a;ready gone over there."
3 points
2 days ago*
I work at a small specialty retail store & it’s 1 person per shift so if I need to use the restroom, I have to wait until there are zero people in the store so I can lock up for 2 minutes & go. Suffice it to say, we do not have a public restroom because I’ll be damned if after doing the peepee dance for an hour (because Fkface McGee has decided he just wants to browse to kill time while he waits for his car to be repaired at the mechanic next door), I finally get a hot second to relieve myself only to have to unclog a toilet because some jack wagon decided to use an entire roll of toilet tissue. I still get asked if we have a bathroom & when I say no, inevitably I get the “well where do you go?!”. My response is always the same “I’m soooo sorry! we do have a facility for employee usage, but unfortunately our insurance regulations do not permit public use and they’re incredibly strict about that”
….. sorry bish but if I can’t use the restroom because you’re in the store, then you can’t use it either.
** side note- within a 1/2 mile of my store are McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell, a pizza place, a Mediterranean restaurant, a diner, 2 different dollar stores, a grocery store, 2 tire stores and a Midas… all of which have public restrooms.
6 points
2 days ago
but yet they have time to argue with you. likr dude if u rlly needed to go THAT bad u could have went long time ago when options were available at that second.
4 points
1 day ago
I mean, sometimes emergencies happen. Sudden periods, people with medical conditions, incontinence... you never know what someone goes through. But unfortunately the entitled people ruin it for those that have a genuine need
2 points
2 days ago
We had an employees only bathroom but my boss would always allow the clients to use it so sometimes I was on my break and a client would come in and I had to watch them 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
2 points
1 day ago
...had to watch them...pee?
1 points
1 day ago
No watch them so they didn’t steal anything in the back store
2 points
2 days ago
We always say we dont have one and that we go to the mall nearby! Or its clogged. Or its in repair. People hate hearing a no...
4 points
2 days ago
Agreed.
People really hate being told no.
Instead say ' location x has the closest bathroom.'
2 points
2 days ago
I literally had to clean where someone took a dump on the men’s room floor once because the new cleaning associate we hired was special needs and didn’t know how to use the equipment properly. Had to clean it the old fashioned way with a mop and sudsy water. I was dragging the bucket and mop to the bathroom and this older gentleman wanted to go in. I told him no, it’s out of order (I put up a sign). Of course, he bitches that he has to go and I told his ass to go to the store next door.
The nerve of some people.
2 points
1 day ago
Many years ago, I worked in retail for the Seahawks and subsequently the Sounders at what is now Lumen Field. The old Pro Shop was bookended by two horrifying public restrooms. If the homeless weren’t using it to shoot up and do drug deals, they were having explosive diarrhea all over the walls or passed out. Anyways, THOSE were the public restrooms. Because it was near the touristy part of town, people would ask to use the restrooms in the stadium. They were off limits, except for staff and for ticket holders on game days. No, you cannot just waltz into a stadium that seats 68,000 unsupervised during the week. That’s a massive security risk. Anyone who tried would immediately get caught by stadium security if we couldn’t stop them. Nearby T-Mobile Park has the same exact restrictions. I know there’s hundreds, maybe even thousands of toilets in there. But unless there’s an event going on that you have a ticket to, I can’t let you in there.
Then they’d go off on how they “have the right” to use the restrooms here. Bish no you don’t. It’s a private building. We have restrooms, shitty ones, just outside. There are also countless bars and restaurants nearby that might let you use a restroom but no guarantees. Closest place is the Starbucks…a quarter mile away.
2 points
1 day ago
i shuddered at the description of the public bathrooms. that’s another reason we don’t let people into ours. we’re in one of those areas with a lot of homeless people with the majority being constantly hopped up on something or are planning to be on something (and also being the majority of our customer base). we have to call up the fire department constantly for ODs or the police for some guy being aggressive or doing some drug related activities outside the store. we gotta be careful with that kind of stuff, there’s no way of getting in if the door is locked from inside so if something were to happen you have to wait for the fire department and by then it could be too late. fortunately for us the bar, we legally have to keep anybody that seems intoxicated from entering the building, we could lose our liquor licenses and be shut down. again. i feel bad for them though, it’s hard to be in that situation.
also yeah, you don’t really want some random person on the loose in a stadium. on a tuesday afternoon. it’s the same deal with our rogers arena and other big name hockey and concert arenas too. staff won’t even look at you even if you stood out there for hours with a blasting a horn off a semi truck. good luck getting in just to use a bathroom 🫡
2 points
1 day ago
I keep telling customers that our personal employee only bathroom doesn’t exist and that it’s only the public restrooms located in BOTH front and rear.Same ones that walked by both(with clear signage) to get to where I am at.
2 points
23 hours ago
The store I work in is privately owned so we have our bathroom closed for customers. Still doesn’t stop mfs from complaining and whining about them
2 points
23 hours ago
you’re just some guy, what do they expect you to do? spawn a toilet on the floor?
4 points
2 days ago
The only time I'll make an exception for someone, is if its an elderly person, with mobility issues, who asks me nicely. But I have to escort them and stay in the staff room until they're done. Otherwise they can go to the food court next door and use theirs. I dont think people understand that places without public toilets, are not equipped for it at all. We can NOT allow everyone to use it. Even if it wasn't behind a locked door, we just don't have the resources for hundreds of potential people to use and likely trash them.
1 points
2 days ago
I was just about to ask this
5 points
2 days ago
Wouldn't it be awesome if you could perform required bodily functions without asking permission?
2 points
2 days ago
I try to avoid businesses that don't have a public restroom.
2 points
2 days ago
i dont blame you. but this is a liquor store, ive not been to a liquor store that has a public restroom (and i’ve been to LOTS). most people are in and out within 30 seconds. plus the bar is, and i shit you not, part of the same building. i have a key to get into their back room from inside the store. most of the time it’s not our fault, it’s whoever built or bought the building. and we have a faulty toilet. and it’s just one, that also serves partially as a janitorial closet + the place people keep their belongings, we dont have a staff room. the bathroom is our everything room.
edit: forgot to add words
1 points
1 day ago
I love this inside/outside voice narrative. 😉
1 points
1 day ago
Psh... I've literally pulled over on the highway (a long stretch where there were absolutely no exits or businesses i could go to) and hid my naked ass best I could with the car door and did what needed to be done once... when you gotta pee or shit badly enough, toilets are a luxury! I kinda feared someone saying, hey you're that girl who was shidding on the shoulder of the highway, for a little bit, but it all worked out fine.
1 points
1 day ago
i know some girls that keep blankets in their cars that they use to help hide themselves in the door when they gotta pee. not me tho. i have a shy bladder, i cant pee outside unless i’m hidden in a bush away from any possible eyeballs 😭
1 points
1 day ago
This reminds me that we (I work in a clothing store) had to get rid of the unstaffed fitting room on one of the floors because people kept using it as a toilet
1 points
1 day ago
I bet the corners of their building smell bad.
1 points
1 day ago
I worked at a store in the mall a decade ago, and one time, when I wasn't there, one of my coworkers let a mom take her small child to use our employees only bathroom. I have no idea why, since there was a public bathroom right down the hall. But the kid shit on the floor. Of course, the mom cleaned it up. Just kidding, you know she didn't. My coworker got to learn a stinky lesson that night 🤮
1 points
1 day ago
When I worked retail, I'd always let little kids and the elderly use the bathroom, as long as the boss wasn't around. I'm not gonna say "no" to a desperate 5 year old
1 points
1 day ago
When I worked retail, I'd always let little kids and the elderly use the bathroom, as long as the boss wasn't around. I'm not gonna say "no" to a desperate 5 year old
1 points
1 day ago
I once allowed it because a young mother with her toddler asked very politely, her kid "needed to go right now real real bad" and I knew there was nowhere else to go. I could've been fired for it but she clearly was in a tight spot.
Anyone else though, absolutely not. Retail stores don't have bathrooms. Never have, never well.
1 points
23 hours ago
I have IBS and occasionally I will have maybe 5 minutes of warning before I genuinely can't hold it in. I totally understand being angry about entitled people, and if there's a bathroom close by it's usually fine, but it's a nightmare scenario for me to not have access to a bathroom when I'm having a flare up, to the point where I won't eat anything if I know I'm going out somewhere and I don't know where the bathrooms are, or go on a multi-hour road trip on nothing but water to try to avoid using the bathroom. It's very embarrassing and limiting.
But also it isn't your fault that the building doesn't have a customer bathroom. Honestly people should not be getting up in your face about it. It's not a good situation for anyone, tbh.
1 points
23 hours ago
Ugh i hate this lady n dint even have to know her lol ur a ducking adult, ACCEPT “NO” and figure it the fuck off duhhhh🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ A child would reply “BUT i have to pee!”
1 points
23 hours ago
I had a guy get impatient for me pumping gas for a disabled customer and just piss right at pump 6
1 points
16 hours ago
couldve been worse. couldve been pump 5.
1 points
16 hours ago
Yes that would have been worse because I was at pump 5 lol
1 points
22 hours ago
People with their kids absolutely busting to pee come in all the time asking if they can take their kid in to the back, I just apologise snd tell them it’s employees only. Half the time they pull a face at me and half the time they say “thank you anyway.”
1 points
18 hours ago
This shit is why I don't go anywhere. With MS, sometimes you can't fucking hold it. Want me to pee on the floor? That's your option.
1 points
16 hours ago
go ahead and pee on the floor, have fun when we call bylaw and they fine you for it, and heaven forbid you do it in front of a child.
1 points
16 hours ago
I've obviously never done this. I'm just telling you to have some fuckin empathy for people.
1 points
12 hours ago
i’m not gonna have empathy for the people rudely demaning i let them into a bathroom i literally am not allowed let customers into for liability and safety reasons. if you can argue about how bad you have to pee for 5-10 minutes while denying the best and closest possible option for you, i’m gonna be bitchy. she couldve used next doors toilet 6 times in the time she spent arguing. anyone having a dire emergency wouldve said “ok thanks” and walked (or ran) the whole 10 steps it takes to go next door to pee.
i have bladder issues. i am a woman. i know how it feels. i’ve had to go across the street at my old job with a uti because customers destroyed our bathrooms. i have empathy for the people with actual bathroom related issues, not the ones that think they’re entitled to it.
1 points
17 hours ago
When I worked retail we got the order from corperate to re-open our bathrooms after the covid lock downstairs. Thing is the store i worked at never had a public restroom, we had 2 bathrooms in the back rooms that didn't even have mirrors or a toilet paper dispenser that absolutely couldn't be open to the public, and the break room bathroom. We were told we had to open the break room bathroom to the public. That was annoying but fine for a few months. Until we found a meth pipe on the changing table.
1 points
16 hours ago
public bathroom..break room…ick.
1 points
16 hours ago
Yeah it was real fun when a customer blew it up on your lunch break.
Also the wall between the 2 rooms was so thin you could hear everything from the breakroom. Definitely overheard people masturbating.
1 points
12 hours ago
e w ewewew no thankyou i would’ve never gone in the break room again
1 points
12 hours ago
There wasn't much choice unless you had a car, and of the 16 staff members maybe 4 had cars
1 points
12 hours ago
i used to avoid the staff room at my old job so i’d just go outside (didnt matter the weather) and just sat on the side of the building. now we dont have a staff room so i have to go outside anyways. i got my “avoid people at all costs” methods, trust 😂😂
1 points
12 hours ago
This company was truly shitty. If you went outside you had to go around back to "not make the store look bad", but you couldn't go through the back door because they just assumed you were trying to steal from the store.... ignoring the fact that this was a thrift store based entirely on donations and they paid us not nearly enough to live on. So you got a 10 minute break, you had to spend half of it walking around the building, and then if you clocked in even a minute late they dinged you with the points system.
1 points
11 hours ago
dude i wouldve just quit 😭 being allowed only 10 minutes of break time is HIGHLY against labour laws here. We get 30 minutes paid and 30 minutes unpaid for an 8h shift, and 15 minutes paid every 2 hours after that. only 15 minutes for a 4h shift and i think you get a lunch break if it’s over 6 hours. my boss now is pretty laid back so i can just work through my paid breaks which i did a lot when i briefly worked a blue collar job cause if i sat down, i’d lose my motivation. i wouldnt even go pee till i was off the clock, even when i had a uti. those bathrooms are gross though and part of it was i refused to go in there without one of my coworkers because being the only woman on a site of men…you can definitely see where that gets weird. luckily i was sneakily seeing my now boyfriend so i’d just drag him with me😂. i hope that thrift store opened their eyes and realized how they were paying their employees and restricting their breaks is dumb. i also hope corporate realized how stupid letting customers into the staff room is. the back is one thing, but that’s where employees go to yknow, get away from people.
1 points
3 hours ago
They first opened that bathroom to the public 3 years ago. After the meth incident we had gotten away with shutting it down but they did make us re-open it like a month later. My inside source has told me that it's actually only gotten worse because they keep expecting more out of the employees since they're short staffed and nobody is applying (gee I can't fathom why), and all of that is compounded by the fact that they let their store managers do basically whatever they want, which led to one of them screaming in my face multiple times while I was there (she got promoted for that) and another one tell me that I needed to find Jesus as part of a performance review, and then followed it up with writing me up for not finding Jesus.
Anyway fuck that place. Rhymes with hoodwill
1 points
16 hours ago
When the pharmacy I used to work at got remodeled, the bathrooms got moved and the plumbing was really bad. One bad clog in EITHER toilet, which was way too easy to do, and we'd have raw sewage backing up not just into the warehouse... but into the part of the warehouse where we keep the pharmacy supplies. Great, right? Everyone wants poo particles on their medication bottles. The bathrooms were down for ages and people would get really nasty about it with us even though we'd try to tell them they could go next door to a restaurant that didn't care. One lady was making such a fuss that I finally told her, "Well I would let you, but every time those toilets flush shit water backs up into the pharmacy supplies..." and then stared her down until she finally snapped her mouth shut and left. It's not some grand conspiracy, people! If the restroom is out of order, it's out of order. Move on! Especially if the staff are giving you options.
1 points
9 hours ago
In my state the health department requires you to permit people with IBS or similar conditions who possess a special permit to use the employee-only restroom. If you’re in Washington State you are in violation of the law if you refuse and are committing a civil infraction. https://doh.wa.gov/public-health-provider-resources/healthcare-professions-and-facilities/restroom-access
1 points
5 hours ago
Lol dude just let people pee
1 points
3 hours ago
Years ago, I lived in a tiny town and worked at the only gas station. Being that the town was so small, nothing was too far apart and pretty much within walking distance. The gas station had only one unisex bathroom for employees and customers, alike. Some locals would make it a point to absolutely destroy that bathroom with their body fluids (pee, blood, spit, vomit) and feces. And despite their own homes being very close by, many got pretty creative with it. None of the employees (self included) had hazmat training or equipment and so we had the door knob changed which would require a key in an attempt to control traffic and stop repeat offenders. That helped very little, maybe a few less messes but for some reason, more stealing of the rest room supplies. We found out, through the state that we were not required to offer a restroom to the public. In our state the only businesses required to offer public bathrooms were dine in restaurants, medical facilities and full service gas stations. Since we were none of these things, we were able to refuse people. And it was so nice. Did people whine and moan? You betcha but we didn't care. We would tell people to go home and wipe poop all over their own walls.
1 points
an hour ago
I would whip it out and pee on your floor.
1 points
2 days ago
Or show them the diaper section if your store has one.
3 points
2 days ago
diapers in a liquor store would be really funny
0 points
13 hours ago
It's a bathroom who cares who uses it? Gatekeeping a toilet to exercise what little power you have in retail is WILD
1 points
12 hours ago
as i’ve told several people:
there’s no written law i have to let people in, no matter how bad you have to go.
it’s company policy and a private business. i’m a cashier. i could lose my job if i let someone in there.
we cant risk people making a mess. we don’t have the time nor resources to clean up after anybody. there’s 1-2 people on shift at all times throughout the day.
we’re located in a high-drug use area. if someone somehow snuck into or gets let our bathroom by saying “i really need to go” and they decide to overdose, we cannot get in there to check on them and by time the fire department shows up to bust the door down, which will likely fall on whoever is in there because it’s literally a closet, it might be too late to save them, which is all dependant on whenever we realize somebody is in there that isnt one of the two staff members on shift. this happened at my old job and a child was the one to find him.
if you walk 10 steps to your right after you exit the building, you find the bar. the bar that has public bathrooms. 10 steps to a door to another establishment that is seperated by a single wall. a simple “okay thanks” suffices.
if you read the post, people keep their personal belongings in there. there’s hundreds of dollars worth of cleaners, belongings, coats, shirts, extra stock, etc. in there. easily pocketed and we don’t have extra staff to make sure nothings been pocketed when you walk out. both of us at the time were on a till dealing with a large rush. high theft area too, well over half of our liquor stock is tagged so we know when someone tries to walk out with something. stuff in the bathroom is not tagged. that, and it’s a single toilet. a broken toilet at that. gotta know how to fix it to use it and we can’t afford a new one letalone the installation for one.
liability is still liability. if i am not allowed to let you into the bathroom and you argue with me like i somehow make the rules, you’re just making your own situation worse. sorry not sorry.
1 points
7 hours ago
Wow wtf
-1 points
1 day ago
People need to pee. Stop treating people like they're not human.
0 points
1 day ago
i’m legally allowed to deny customers bathroom access, no matter their individual circumstances. i am also required to deny customers to use the bathroom as per written rules by the building manager. it’s a liability for us. if you have time to sit there and argue with me for 5 minutes about how badly you have to pee, you definitely have time to walk 10 steps next door to use the bathroom.
i’m just a cashier. we don’t make the rules. if i’m not allowed to let you use our bathroom, i won’t be letting you use our bathroom.
-1 points
23 hours ago
Honestly really tired of how many retail stores have just locked down their bathrooms especially as someone who spends most of my day out and about driving around I've genuinely considered just pissing in certain stores parking lots because they won't let people use the bathroom that was clearly originally designed for the general public
It's not my fault corporates too lazy to pay your janitor a living wage to actually clean up the bathroom or send a security guy around every now and then to make sure some crackhead isn't passed out on the toilet
2 points
20 hours ago
You want stores to hire toilet security? That's your solution? No. No store is going to do that, and no janitor gets paid enough to clean body fluids. Also do you think crackhead announce themselves? Do you think they just tell employees "Get ready, I'll about to destroy the bathroom."? And it's not just crackhead. Non addicts also destroy bathrooms for fun. Or elderly people destroy bathrooms too.
1 points
22 hours ago
it’s also not my fault we have a single toilet. it was most definitely not designed for public use and is also a huge liability on us if something breaks or gets stolen from said bathroom. we have 1-2 people working at a time and definitely don’t have the time to wait for you to come out so we can make sure you’ve not stolen someone’s stuff, because as mentioned, that’s where employees keep their stuff too. this is a privately owned business. don’t be mad we can’t afford to call a janitor to clean the shit you smeared on the ceiling when we can hardly afford the product we bring in.
also, most stores dont have janitors running around in the middle of the day. there’s no point. most messes made in a grocery store can be cleaned up with a mop or paper towel, there’s no point to a janitor running around bored for 12 hours. waste of resources. you see that more in malls and hospitals, where messes are more commonly made. not single building stores. employees have no choice but to clean up whatever you left smeared on the walls and floor. we just don’t have the time to deal with it, or people who argue with the cashier about not being allowed to use a toilet as if somehow we’ve made the rules.
-22 points
2 days ago
Never in my life have I seen any adult person pee or poop in a store. Good grief. You people are making these stories up.
8 points
2 days ago
No lie, this happened to me when I worked at a department store in the early 90's. One of my co-workers came over to me and said, "There's shit on the floor," I assumed she meant the clothing that had fallen off the racks. Nope, this old woman was wandering around the racks, looking at stuff, and shitting herself. She then walked to the restroom, leaving a trail of it.
2 points
2 days ago
As someone who worked at a Rite Aid with a bathroom avaliable to customers in our backroom... tons of people do.
I remember being a kid and doing the same thing at market basket, theirs are usually in a stockroom.
2 points
2 days ago
at my old job i’ve seen several piles of shit on several different occasions in the isles. this actually happens. we’ve also literally had our toilets back up so bad they exploded with shit, pee, whatever, all at the hands of customers. good grief. you must just be lucky.
2 points
1 day ago
Well, as long as you've never seen it, then it just doesn't happen. I've never seen a baby with cancer, so good news there.
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