Let me begin by saying I know this is ridiculous. There are bigger issues in life BUT this really, really and I mean REALLY pisses me off. I work in a building that has one business on the bottom floor and several on the second. We kind of take up the front 1/3 of the second floor. There are three bathrooms for our end of the building and we use two. We share it with one other office that only has one person. Female. Our office has me and two other people. One of those people is female but she is out of the office and has been for awhile. The other is male. Is there anything else that needs to be said? I suffered in silence but in the last year it has gotten worse. Linda, in the office down the hall, and I have discussed this issue more than once. She came up with the idea to make one a womens room and the other a mens room. Or maybe it was me. Not sure now. anyway... There are two bathrooms and they are right next to each other perpendicular to her office door.
I got fed up one day after having to replace the toilet paper roll again because someone obviously has no idea how to, after having to walk back to the office because someone does not know how to unlock the door when exiting the bathroom, after having to put the goddamn toilet seat backdown, after having to flush the toilet before I can use it and I made the signs. Nice. Big Clear. Pictures included so even the illiterate can understand the difference between pants and a dress. I even laminated them. Fancy, no? Linda and I put them up while he was out of the office. He got back while I was at lunch and went to use the bathroom probably for his 10th time that day and saw the new signs. Followed them that day but not the next when Linda was not at work.
And that became a pattern for the first two weeks. If she was there he would use the correct bathroom but if she was not there or I was not there he paid no attention to it. Also, oddly enough, he never said anything to me about it. Made a comment to her but not to me until his wife, the third person in our office, asked me if I did it.
Today I went to wash my hands after handling time cards and field invoices, (Which I do not understand these employees. I unfold papers and actual dirt falls on my desk. I get that they work with dirt but please. Keep it on the job.), and the bathroom was locked. I went back, got the key and Linda and I discussed the situation again. Later she emailed me to tell me she figured it. He never unlocked the door after his prior use and since he would never think to get the key proceeded to use the incorrect bathroom all morning. She got her key and unlocked his bathroom. We will see what happens tomorrow.
We feel that it is completely disrespectful that he continues to do this. I was trying to avoid the conversation that starts with, "Sorry your mother never taught you proper bathroom etiquitte and your wife obviously lacks in that department as well but..." He is my employer, I am the employee and that is not a conversation I feel comfortable having. I thought this would solve the problem. Obviously not. Maybe the conversation does need to happen. And soon.
Someone told me the secret to finding out if someone washed their hands after going to the bathroom is to ask them what color the soap is. Till next time.
I got fed up one day after having to replace the toilet paper roll again because someone obviously has no idea how to, after having to walk back to the office because someone does not know how to unlock the door when exiting the bathroom, after having to put the goddamn toilet seat backdown, after having to flush the toilet before I can use it and I made the signs. Nice. Big Clear. Pictures included so even the illiterate can understand the difference between pants and a dress. I even laminated them. Fancy, no? Linda and I put them up while he was out of the office. He got back while I was at lunch and went to use the bathroom probably for his 10th time that day and saw the new signs. Followed them that day but not the next when Linda was not at work.
And that became a pattern for the first two weeks. If she was there he would use the correct bathroom but if she was not there or I was not there he paid no attention to it. Also, oddly enough, he never said anything to me about it. Made a comment to her but not to me until his wife, the third person in our office, asked me if I did it.
Today I went to wash my hands after handling time cards and field invoices, (Which I do not understand these employees. I unfold papers and actual dirt falls on my desk. I get that they work with dirt but please. Keep it on the job.), and the bathroom was locked. I went back, got the key and Linda and I discussed the situation again. Later she emailed me to tell me she figured it. He never unlocked the door after his prior use and since he would never think to get the key proceeded to use the incorrect bathroom all morning. She got her key and unlocked his bathroom. We will see what happens tomorrow.
We feel that it is completely disrespectful that he continues to do this. I was trying to avoid the conversation that starts with, "Sorry your mother never taught you proper bathroom etiquitte and your wife obviously lacks in that department as well but..." He is my employer, I am the employee and that is not a conversation I feel comfortable having. I thought this would solve the problem. Obviously not. Maybe the conversation does need to happen. And soon.
Someone told me the secret to finding out if someone washed their hands after going to the bathroom is to ask them what color the soap is. Till next time.
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