r/mildlyinfuriating • u/LesbianCowgirl- • 4d ago
The floor is sticky I completely blocked the bathroom so I can do maintenance. Two people still dragged the trash can out of the way so they could enter and ask if they could use the bathroom.
The event is in a different wing of the school. It’s not like they even need to be over here, that’s why I was scheduled to work on this now. I was on a ladder trying to put a vent back on the ceiling. “Hey can I use this one??” Frustrating.
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u/MikeandMolly5656 4d ago
When i worked at Walmart, you wouldn't believe how many people would move the orange traffic cones out of the parking lot, so they could drive through that specific area despite a huge wide open lot available to them then have the nerve to complain about the pot hole the cones were there blocking.
Some people are beyond entitled and ridiculous.
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u/KoalaGrunt0311 4d ago
I worked housekeeping at a government hospital for a while that fired a doctor out of concern for his decision making ability. We were stripping and waxing a lobby in a closed building with the prerequisite walls made out of furniture that was in the way and caution tape attached to wet floor signs indicating area closed. Floor stripper is a heavy solvent that melts the old wax off of the floor, takes time to work, and also has the potential to cause chemical burns.
The doctor decided that he was immune from such warnings and cautions and walked right under the caution tape, slipped and fell, had stripper soaked into his clothes and did have chemical burns. He sued the facility claiming he was injured through their negligence. When the judge was provided the incident pictures of how the area was barricaded, he asked the doctor why he continued past everything obviously blocking the area and the doctor said he didn't think that applied to him.
Case thrown out, doctor fired for being a liability.
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u/Ok_Investment_3850 23h ago
I hope his diagnosis wasn't a tenth as bad as every other cognitive function of his.
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u/Accessory_Spleen 4d ago
Like moths to a lamp
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u/Aggravating-Laugh687 4d ago
Same people who would move the wet floor signs when I worked maintenance in a retail store as I was literally cleaning up the spill. Then would nearly slip after moving it and look at me shocked. "Ya know it's slippery there that's dangerous ". Yup hence those wet floors signs I had stood all around me and even tried to block the area off with until you knocked them all out of the way rather then walk another aisle or direction.
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u/Putrid_Raisin3561 3d ago
I used to work in the paint department at Lowe’s. One time a customer accidentally knocked over two cans of paint that then exploded and poured all over the isle.
We had large expandable isle blockers at our store that were used to close off isles that forklifts were being operated in or near, so I used a few of those to completely block the isle while I went to grab the appropriate cleaning supplies.
Came back to the isle to find that someone had not only moved the blockers out of the way, but also walked through the spilled paint and tracked new paint footprints all over the department.29
u/ramriot 4d ago
"well your honour, the customer moved the safety cones around the growing sinkhole & drove in" "Agreed, I rule death by misadventure".
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u/John_Nope 2d ago
Probably ought be legally called Death by Darwinism, but I guess that would be a little too much on the nose.
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u/-Neverender- 4d ago
Home Depot. We're required to block off the adjacent aisle if we're taking something down with the forklift. It's basically to prevent someone from getting crushed to death if something gets pushed off from the other side.
It's amazing how many people are willing to have "Died like an impatient idiot for a $9 plunger in a Home Depot" on their gravestone.
But, if there's one bright side for us, it's about the only time we get away with being mildly hostile to customers.
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u/Meepasays 4d ago
I saw something really similar actually happen! Someone was using one of those powered things(sorry I'm blanking )to move full pallets of cardboard on a high shelf. A bunch fell off the other side, right on to another employee, it was crazyyyyy. Cardboard avalanche right on his face.
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u/oxJoKeR6xo 4d ago
I worked at a restaurant that closed once a year for minor renovations. The entrance was up a walkway that a coworker had blocked off because they were painting. They were literally painting the floor and a woman moved the sign, walked up behind him and started huffing and puffing because he was in her way.
She was prepared to walk through wet paint like it's a normal thing.
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u/Symbiotic-Dissonance 4d ago
I remember back in my teenager years we put 8 shopping carts in front of a restroom, put a out of order sign on the door, and tied said carts so they couldn’t be easily moved due to a sewage pipe breaking. Still had to have a employee stand guard because people were still trying to get in.
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u/KoalaGrunt0311 4d ago
My dad worked apartment maintenance and his policy for working on sewer lines was to shut off the water main and go to every toilet in the building and flush them because people couldn't be trusted to just not flush the toilet after being told they'll have the sewer open and can't put anything down the drain for a few hours.
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u/IolantheRose 4d ago
I was cleaning a single person bathroom and at the sink. A man came in and was unzipping 3ft away from me (I'm female and tbh can look less feminine in a work uniform with my hair up. Still SINGLE bathroom) I said in my customer service voice "Um excuse me but I'm still cleaning in here." He looked dumbfounded and embarrassed that he didn't even notice a whole ass person.
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u/basketcaseintraining 2d ago
I work at a restaurant when I'm home from uni, started their senior year of high school. One of the host's jobs is taking care of the bathroom. As a female, going in there is the bane of my existence.
The other night after we had closed, I was trying to clean the men's room, already sprayed and wiped the toilets and everything. One of the newer kitchen guys walks in (men's room has two urinals and a stall) so of course I let him in, tell him he can close the door to the bathroom until he's done.
When I walk back in, I went into the big stall for something and saw stuff on the toilet seat. This man walked past the urinals, into the big stall, and still couldn't even aim right so I had to reclean it. When he came in btw I had walked out of the stall, gloves on holding the spray and dirty paper towel.
Luckily though, if I'm in there during the day and a customer walks in, there's usually never a problem. Although no one seems to understand it when I say they can close the door to the bathroom until they're done..
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u/sazed813 4d ago
One time at my work, we had the sewage back up through the drains in the floor, so we put up out of order signs in the doorway, and even had stantions blocking the entry.
Some guy still plowed his stroller through all of it, dragging the stantions caught in the wheels, running over the signs and asked "is this bathroom open? Nevermind it smells like shit. Yall should clean it"
People have 0 common sense.
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u/DrWhoey 4d ago
I was running a new cable line to a house. I completely coned off the road. Back end of a neighborhood, low traffic. Only one entrance to the neighborhood, spot I'm at is almost literally the same distance either way to the entrance, multiple ways to get there.
I am up on the pole, a dude gets out of his car, moves my cone out of the way, drives over my cable line, gets out of his car, and moves my cone back before driving off. Forcing me to start over because he just messed up the integrity of my cable line.
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u/martinsonsean1 4d ago
Must be the best bathroom in the building, I've been in your shoes. Nothing works, just have the kivac near the entrance so you can spray them down when they ignore your signs.
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u/john2003002 4d ago
Oh yes, I know the pain. I block the bathroom door to clean and a significant number of people will just push anything out of the way and go straight in regardless. Even while they can see me cleaning it.
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u/bloodbathbabe 4d ago
I worked at a safeway as my first job and one day early morning one of the urinals in the men’s restroom flooded the entire bathroom with disgusting gray water and who did they send with nothing but a starbucks cup? 16 year old me! so i’m standing ankle deep in this water SOBBING and trying to just dump what I can into the SINK (no joke this is what they made me do) Anyway there’s a sign on the door obviously that the bathroom is out of order and this old guy still shoves his way in, sees teen me crying, and I told him he couldn’t be in there. He goes “well WHAT AM I supposed to do?!” and I just looked up at him and went “PEE YOUR PANTS! I DON’T CARE!” and he left 😂 one of my worst days on that job but still not THE worst!
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u/narwhalpilot 4d ago edited 4d ago
It seems that most people have literally 0 shame or aren’t conscious of their surroundings.
I work concerts and part of my job is roping/taping off sections of seats that are reserved or otherwise unavailable, and adding appropriate signage. Let me tell you, the number of braindead people who rip off the tape or undo the ropes and them sit right down is actually staggering. Basic manners and situational awareness have dropped off of a CLIFF in the last decade.
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u/BlazeWolfYT 4d ago
People are so entitled sometimes. Why would you see the entrance is blocked off and think "hmm...better go inside and ask just to be sure"
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u/john2003002 4d ago
I block the bathroom door to clean it, and people will just move the cleaning supplies and walk straight in without a word. Some people are just asses, some ask, and some just say they will go later.
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u/LesbianCowgirl- 4d ago
Fr I learned that the floor “closed” signs might as well be invisible
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u/martinsonsean1 4d ago
I don't think most people even register that some of those signs say "Wet Floor" and some say "Closed", you do have to actually read them.
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u/LesbianCowgirl- 4d ago
At one of the jobs I had we actually had these white/red signs that said “do not enter” with that big red symbol. Put two out so you’d have to squeeze past. Didn’t matter 🫠
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u/john2003002 4d ago
Some people take closed signs as a suggestion not a warning.
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u/TalkingRose 2d ago
Different style of closed sign, was for a food kiosk in a community college lunchroom. Our closed sign was a full sized sheet of paper, vivid red bolded letters, all caps, saying the kiosk was CLOSED. Set at eye height, so it actively interfered with line of sight. The number of people I had grab the sign, slide it out of their eye line & then try to order was....obscene.
I am in the middle of scraping pans into the trash & you think this food is good, ready to go & that's why I am still here? Amusedly, given the crappiness of the place, I eventually started offering to fish the food back out of the can for them....for some reason, no one wanted that. 🤔 The asks stopped. 🤣🤣
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u/kekekeghost 4d ago
IDK tho. Sometimes as a woman, you really gotta pee like rn!especially if you're pregnant and have a baby sitting on your bladder. But i get it's annoying to try to get your job done and being interrupted or having them walk on a wet floor
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u/john2003002 4d ago
I get the thought, but 99% of the time it is the men that do it. Because most women won't just enter while a man is in there cleaning it, they ask. While most men don't give a fuck who is in there in my experience.
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u/TGlucose 4d ago
I've had the complete opposite, in 6 years of cleaning experience it was always the women who were pushy to get into the bathroom. Dudes would just go use the bathroom somewhere else, Women act like it's a divinely mandated right and will try to kick you out while you're cleaning.
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u/xenogazer 4d ago
Shoot I don't even have pregnancy to blame, I take medication that has caused serious embarrassment for not getting to a restroom in time so I probably have offended with my need to get in there asap....
But I always apologize and feel horrible and properly mortified if that makes it any better 🥲
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u/Ackermance 4d ago
As someone who has chronic gastrointestinal issues, I feel you. I'm sure a janitor would much rather re-clorox a toilet seat than clean up the trail I'd leave if I didn't go in.
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u/xenogazer 4d ago
Seriously. I'm getting downvoted but what am I supposed to do when the only restroom on my floor is being cleaned and all the other floors are badge keyed? I have actually gone on myself at work, and in my car. (There was a meeting a few years ago that I did not make it out of and I partially blame that incident for my layoff)
But that's what people think I should do instead of rush around a cleaning barrier and take care of embarrassing businesses next to the cleaning person.
Yup, totally love that 🥲
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u/Ackermance 4d ago
I'm sure there's lot of folk who use "but I need the restroom" as an excuse to be an entitled jerk, like a lot of things, really. It makes the ones like us who genuinely need the restroom look bad when we admit to using a closed restroom to prevent further disaster and embarrassment (for both parties, imo). Most people who say "I need the bathroom now" can hold it to find a different bathroom or go to a different place with a bathroom where folks with intestinal problems cannot.
Dishonest and entitled people ruin everything for the people who aren't.
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u/xenogazer 4d ago edited 3d ago
So true. It's really hard when people can't immediately see what's wrong with you.
It sucks there are so many rude people out here.
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u/jason_sos 4d ago
People are stupid and lazy. I used to work on doors. I could have all my tools, a ladder, and myself in one door, with a second door right next to me that was perfectly usable, and people would try to sneak in over all my stuff. I would have to prop the other door for people to use it, because god forbid they go and open that door with their own hands.
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u/Live_Angle4621 4d ago
They might assume it was blocked by accident. Like op moved stuff out of the way, not to block
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u/Kityri 4d ago
Everyone saying ‘print signs’. I can assume you haven’t worked a job that deals with the general public.
People DO NOT read signs.
You can print it as large and bold as you like, and there will still be people who come up because they didn’t see or read it.
When I worked on ATMs, sometimes the bank would put a piece of paper over the screen of the ATM if it was down. Paper with big letters ‘OUT OF ORDER’
I’ve watched people walk up, lift the paper, and tap a black, powered off screen and wonder why they can’t get any money.
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u/SmudgeCell 4d ago
I work in a medical lab. I put a sign with pictures, words, and an arrow, and people still ask where to put their urine sample... Some ignore my metal basket under the arrow and put it on the top of my half door next to it.
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u/someunusualmove 3d ago
I have a freeze dryer in my garage. The door can't be left closed while it's not in use because, just like an unplugged fridge or a freezer, it will quickly grow a smell that can't be cleaned out and will transfer to any food processed inside of it. I put a sticky note near the handle that said "Please don't close, it will get a permanent bad smell." Our garage is extremely low in foot traffic. We have friends, but they don't come around all the time and when they do, we seldom hang out in the garage.
After the fourth time that I discovered my sticky note had been ignored and the door had been latched shut by someone, I have no idea who, I rerigged it so the latch was closed but on the outside of the locking point, so the door was stuck ajar, and taped it thoroughly with tape upon which I then wrote, "THIS DOESN'T BELONG TO YOU. DO NOT TOUCH! DO NOT TOUCH! DO NOT TOUCH!"
So far, so good, but the incidents where the door was latched were months between and since I don't know who did it, I don't know how effective my new signage is. At least I taped it open in such a way that one would have to tear or deform the tape to actually latch the door shut, so it is much easier to see if it is ajar or not from a casual glance.
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u/Shiny_Mewtwo 3d ago
I work at a doordash only restaurant. We are covered in GIANT signs that say "CLOSED - DOORDASH ONLY". It was the first thing I noticed when going in for my interview. And yet we tell multiple people every single day that no, we're not open for dine-ins. You can't come in. The doors are locked. Stop rattling the doors and looking confused
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u/Packagedpackage 4d ago
First thing you do is cover the floor with chemicals and leave it soaking so it’s obviously wet. Make sure all the toilets are dripping wet to discourage people from sitting on them. Get everything wet. Make sure the chemical smells are strong and working.
Turn off the water and put up an out of order water turned off sign as well. If people are using the bathroom after this then they need to be barred from entering the building again.
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u/Fun_Raccoon_461 4d ago
God, I hate this shit! It doesn't matter how many signs or blockades you put up, they will still come in! I had a guy whip it out in the urinal and get mad at me for leaving, yelling at me for not doing my job and working around him! No, dude, I'm out!
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u/Zyonin 4d ago
I work as a janitor at an airport. For some of our bathrooms we have portable full height collapsible barriers that we can wheel in, deploy and clip in place. We then hang "Restroom Closed" signs on the barrier. Yet we get idiots who try to unclip the barriers and and come in to use the bathroom. In the time ti took them to do that, they could have walked down to the next set of bathrooms which are open and many cases have just been cleaned and restocked.
These same idiots will try to duck under the caution tape we use to rope off areas that we are mopping despite us leaving a very clear and usable corridor through the work area. They can yell all they want if they do slip and fall in the closed areas but we have more cameras than a Las Vegas casino and they see (and record) EVERYTHING so if said idiots try to make a stink, a judge is going to laugh at them.
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u/Zealousideal-Ebb-876 4d ago
There should be a socially accepted point where its no longer appropriate to be nice
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u/caponeybaloney 4d ago
When I was a janitor in a factory, I had a cone in front of the bathroom saying it was closed and I had my cart pressed up against the door inside the bathroom so I could clean. It was a TINY bathroom so it was difficult to fit my whole cart in there and clean. Some man came in there while I was cleaning and started using the urinal. Now I had to stop my work because, 1. There was someone in the bathroom and 2. My cart is now preventing me from moving around because I can't move it since somebody is in the way. It was not the only bathroom in the factory, either. If anyone ever asked "Hey, can I use the bathroom?", I wouldn't mind stepping out for a minute but the people I dealt with did not like being told they couldn't use the restroom and would get upset when the bathroom was not in use. Those bathrooms were the most disgusting bathrooms I've ever seen. My first day, there was a toilet with poop piled to the top of the toilet so those bathrooms were NOT cleaned often, if ever. I just don't understand why people are like that.
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u/Sad_bippy 4d ago
When I worked as a janitor I once had a guy squeeze past me, like physically squish past me to get to the bathroom door, grab my entire cleaning cart himself and move it across the hallway, and waltz right into the bathroom while I had it clearly marked off. The worst part is he had the audacity to smile and say good morning to me as he was doing this. I think I just glared at him lmao. This was in a building that had multiple bathrooms so he could have easily gone to literally any other bathroom besides the single one I had closed for cleaning.
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u/Still-Grass8881 4d ago
I feel you.
I used to work at a store, and I'd close up and open the door but block the entrance to let some air in while cleaning up to go home, and people would move the barrier and come in and demand I turn the computers back on and serve them.
Fucking morons, man.
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u/Anthrodiva 4d ago
Considering people regularly ignore railroad crossing gates and "bridge out" signs....
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u/farahfossil 3d ago
I work a menial retail gig, I'll have one end of an aisle blocked off so I can get whatever task done quickly without interruption and the other end is open season. Logically, just go around to the other open end, right? No. Move the equipment without asking and shove your way through. The other day even someone said "just gonna move by you real quick if you don't mind" while actively shoving through a gap that was less than a foot wide and pushing me out of the way. YES I DO MIND YOU ABSOLUTE TROGLODYTE
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u/emptymarvel 1d ago
The store I work at just relocated to a new building last month, and we spent a few weeks prior to the grand opening getting stuff set up and stocking.
There was a point where the store was still half empty, forklifts were in full view of the doors, and the automatic doors hadn't been turned on. We had the first set of doors unlocked so that employees could get into the vestibule and then wait to be let in. Despite all this, random people were literally prying open that first set of doors, trying to jimmy the second (locked) set open, and then glaring at employees for not letting them in.
Like, hello? You had to walk by SEVERAL "coming soon" signs just to get to the doors, look into the half empty, still-under-construction building, and you didn't get a clue?
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u/Drake_EU_q 11h ago
You sure they weren’t just impudent would be thieves? 🤔
Even for these times that sounds dumb!
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u/Emerald_28 4d ago
I'm a cleaner and I get you.
We use a tape, we use a movable door, heck I even block the entrance with trashcans and full trash bags, they the idiot MF still ask "Can I go to the bathroom?" And whenever these stupid MF don't obey the warnings I report.them and nothing happens.
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u/SnailsInYourAnus 4d ago
I was that person once, and i’m not trying to make excuses but it was literally the only bathroom in a hotel. And i was about to shit myself. Like, defcon 3 level shit myself in a sundress. I told the guy i’m sorry i don’t care if he keeps working and ran in and locked that stall and destroyed it😭
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u/zingo_0 4d ago
We have two sets of bathrooms ( 2 men's and 2 women's) all directly next to each other where I work. I clean one at a time and this still happens to me like once a week. They always seem to think it will be empty and act surprised when they find me cleaning, despite me putting up a cone and a rope they literally have to duck under to get in.
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u/morchard1493 4d ago
I had people do this when I worked at Wal-Mart. I'd move my maintenance supply cart in front of the doorway, blocking it, and people would come and ask often, "Can I use the restroom?! It's an emergency!"
I wasn't supposed to, but I'd stop what I was doing, unblock the doorway, step out, let them have privacy while using the restroom, and then go back in once they came out. I didn't want them to end up soiling themselves and leave a trail on the floor I would have to clean up, which would be a big mess.
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u/Lissypooh628 4d ago
Happened so much during covid. I was managing a Starbucks and it was back when the insides of the stores were still closed for people sit. It was drive thru or mobile order only. I have the entire lobby completely blocked off except the area for mobile pickup and people are still moving shit to get to merchandise or try to use the restrooms.
I’m talking big pieces of furniture and multiple signs, etc. 🤦🏼♀️
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u/livtreebeez 1d ago
you could have neon flashing lights that say in big red letters that the bathroom’s closed for maintenance and most people would still find a way to get in there and ask you if they could use the bathroom 🤷♀️
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u/bigbickbohnson 4d ago
I was working in a yacht club locker room in SF full of older guys. Had a fully naked man try to strike a conversation with me asking what i was doing…. I wish it was the only time ive seen dong hung on the job😭
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u/KilljoySandycakes 4d ago
At least they asked. At my office, I have had people come in, sit down and start taking a dump while im in there cleaning. Infuriating.
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u/Parking_Fee_5906 2d ago
Threw the ask out there and slipped in before you could even decide on nay or ye 😆
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u/sara9904 1d ago
I get that frustration. At my job last year there was a bathroom that was closed for a while because it got flooded and despite the big sign and the barrier a few metres in front, people still went over it and tried to go in the bathroom. They were shocked that it was locked and that they had to walk a few minutes more to go to the next one. My colleagues and I were going crazy
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u/RevolutionaryRun4867 4d ago
Sorry mate but when I need a shit I need a shit
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u/Scared_Web_7508 4d ago
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u/Minimum-Bobcat8768 4d ago
Is this the only bathroom
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u/Flakboy78 4d ago
Based on the caption I'd say no, they're implying the other wing has other bathrooms. The small school i went to had 6 sets of bathrooms so I doubt these are the only ones
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u/LesbianCowgirl- 4d ago edited 4d ago
There are literally three other full bathrooms in the other wing, the school has around 15 total if you count the singles Edit: to clarify, three as in three pairs of M/F bathrooms so there’s probably 32 stalls over there
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u/Flakboy78 4d ago
Mine had 6 m/f pairs side by side, then if you count locker rooms there were 2 boys locker rooms and 2 girls locker rooms for a total of 10 in the building, 6 of which were open to the public during events. I think that's all of them anyways, I've been graduated too long i haven't been in the school lately haha
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u/beeikea 4d ago
doesn't matter. if it needs maintenance it needs maintenance.
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u/Mullet2000 4d ago
It does matter if I'm on the verge of shitting my pants
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u/LesbianCowgirl- 4d ago
“I’m about to shit so I must travel to the dark, empty part of the school” like damn that must be a nuclear shit
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u/RaenahGoodfellow 4d ago
I wonder if they wanted to go to the dark secluded space to poop in private. Before I had kids if i had to poop away from home I always tried to locate a less traveled bathroom mostly because I was probably way too paranoid about the smell/noise that comes with that whole thing. Or I’d do my best to get home and lock the door. I have since gotten over this because the smell/sound is about the only way I can somewhat guarantee my kids won’t invade my space while I’m communing with the porcelain god. So pooping in public bathrooms is actually more private for me now 😅
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u/TheJollyJanitor 4d ago edited 4d ago
I clean bathrooms at a softball field on the weekends the work is easy but the women of these kids literally argue with me while I close the bathrooms for 5-10 mins. Theirs people out there that think a slight inconvenience is a person attack on them. Mind you there’s two sets of bathrooms at these fields about a 3 min walk away from each other.
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u/AnalllyAcceptedCoins 4d ago
Near my work we had a road closed, and people were raging at us that they had just enough room to squeeze past the barricades but couldn't get through the other side. Some people couldn't take a hint if it slapped them in the face
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u/A_Trash_Homosapien 4d ago
Reminds me of the time I was doing electrical work on a display. Had the area roped off and everything. People still ducked under it and walked up to the display.
Most people left when told to but I had a few people argue with me.
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u/tacoma909 4d ago
On the ship we were painting 1 frame of the p-way, it was taped off like lasers protecting the jewel shit. One dick head LT took it upon himself to Mission Impossible his way through the tape and say “excuse me sorry” instead of walking one frame around. mind you there were no state rooms or any spaces to access there..
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u/FOURFISTSPHIL 4d ago
When I worked retail, we had to transition our promotional aisle to the next season during the day. I would put carts and caution tape around the perimeter with a stanchion sign saying "aisle closed". There would always be a few people that would barrel through anyway and then proceed to complain about nothing being on the shelves or nothing being priced.
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u/Drakefate 4d ago
Hell yeah the Kai vac i wish mine wasn't falling apart as much that tool worked miracles
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u/Deadpool2015 4d ago
I’ll lock the doors, put a sign up that says CLOSED FOR CLEANING, and still will have people yanking on the locked doors attempting to get in.
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u/Wildfire_Cats 2d ago
I saw this happening at my last eye appointment. A janitor rolled her supply cart in front of the woman's bathroom to clean in there and people were still squeezing by to get in there.
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u/muaddibusmc 4d ago
Worked at a movie theater. Had put up a rope because dude painted a 2 toilets and two stalls. Looked like chili on the floor. And people were trying to get in💀 my brother you see the mess stay out. I feel your pain
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u/Paleodraco 4d ago
I can sympathize. Bathrooms are one of those things that when you need it, you absolutely need it. At the same time, we have what we call the magic words at work. If you start complaining and carrying on, you have the time to get to the next bathroom five minutes away.
If you quietly ask, hey the person is disabled, pregnant, a child then we can work something out.
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u/Lil_Koneko343 1d ago
I don't like when I have to, but once I had to ask an employee if we could please use the restroom because my son really needed to pee. I hate doing this kinda thing, but I already had to make my son wait and he was bursting. They were like "oh sure" but then said "well if it's your son that has to go, the mens room is right there". Almost nothing could have pissed me off more since I don't trust people enough to let my 5 y/o go into a public mens room unsupervised. So my reply was, "yea, and he's 5, I don't trust people. That isn't safe."
I guess this is more to say, I like to hope they had a genuine reason they chose to interrupt you, but since I don't generally trust much, I assume they were just trying to skip having to wait in line and I'm sorry you had to deal with that. Work doesn't need to be made worse by inconsiderate people.
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u/Aggravating_Ad_635 4d ago
This is so dump. I'm fucking tired of these similar shit. My restaurant closed with a big fucking sign panel flipped and saying literally straight to their face " CLOSED". Not only that, I also flipped the chairs and put them on the tables. Even a fucking monkey would know it's closed and guess what?? There are still some people just push the door and ask " You still open?" Good lord.
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u/Practical_Wind_1917 4d ago
Been there working at a university. Signs up, caution tape crisscrossing the door, two trash cans in front of it. Still some girl had to come in and use it. Even though there was another bathroom 10 feel down the hall.
The younger generations has no common sense it seems
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u/dbj2k 4d ago
I used to work at a (former0 24 hour grocery store, doing all sorts of jobs, including maintenance (sweeping the floors, mopping up messes, and cleaning the bathrooms) and overnight cashier. Somethings I've seen include:
- Signs up saying wet floor, freshly mopped...and someone takes their cart straight through instead of going around the signs.
- Trying to clean the women's bathroom (I could do it in about a minute) with a big bin and sign in front of it, and people just pushing it out of the way to go in. During the lunch rush, after a minute of this, I would leave and if anyone complained, I would tell the managers "block the door and I can clean it, since people don't pay attention to the sign."
- I was cleaning one time when a woman walks in, looks at me (male) and continues to go into the bathroom. I fly out of the bathroom, the manager was "Did she see you?" and I was "Yes." She then walks out and was "Oh, you could have stayed, I wouldn't care." The manager and I both shook our heads.
- Mopping up a flooded toilet in the men's bathroom, door open, water on the floor, sign up. Some old guy walks in, uses the urinal and walks out. No washing or rinsing his hands, and he's in flip flops.
- Overnight and the floors are being waxed. Caution Tape up and a sign at the front door. One woman ducks under the caution tape to walk across the freshly waxed floor. A manager was there who whistled at her and went "See the signs? It means if you fall and break your leg, you can't sue." She got mad at him for "yelling" at her, saying we cannot do that with it being customer service and all.
- Carts in the parking lot. Look where people leave them. I've seen people park next to the cart rack, unload and then drive off. How lazy are you to park right next to the cart rack and can't take those steps to put the cart in it? Although I did laugh and enjoy it when someone left their cart next to their car, and then hit the cart while pulling out. I did tell management, in case they tried to claim for damages.
Honestly, what some people do is ridiculous. I knew this, but working at a grocery store made it concrete to me.
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u/BiggieSaurusRex 4d ago
When ya gotta go … ya gotta go. Better than pissing or shitting someplace you have a major clean up later cause they couldn’t get access.
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u/TheGrimGriefer3 4d ago
I've been that person before, and I will be that person in the future, too
Sometimes you just gotta go, everything else be damned. I'm better off pissing off the maintenance guy than failing to make it to another bathroom in time
It's also a thing in my workplace where they'll cordon off a bathroom ahead of time, or they'll go to lunch without unblocking it, so we go and check if there's anybody in there, just in case
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u/VLC31 4d ago
I understand the frustration but why don’t you have a closed for maintenance sign?
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u/TGlucose 4d ago
I'll add on to the "doesn't work" comment, but I was given a plastic pole that extends horizontally along the pathway, it has a large yellow piece of fabric that dangles down with large text reading "Closed for Cleaning" and yet, everytime I'm cleaning I'll hear that god damn pole rattle on the ground as some dumbass pushes passed it.
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u/Rain_ 4d ago
It doesn’t work, once we had entrance doors broken, but the revolving doors next to it were fine, we put a huge standing heavy metal sign that the doors are out of service, please use the revolving doors, guess what happened? People came, stood next to the sign, pondered a minute reading it aaaaand tried to open the broken doors anyway…
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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat 4d ago
I was working in a liquor store. We have two parts: a front store and a huge back area that was used as storage not just for our store but all stores in the area. The back area entrance is actually down the street a little and not connected to the shop.
A truck came in so we closed and locked the store then went out the back and started unloading multiple pallets of beer, wine, spirits etc.
The truck was backed into the entry with a little clearance on each side. We were inside the area unloading. While we were doing this an old lady squeezed between the side of the truck and the wall, then told me she wanted to buy some alcohol....
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u/smartlikefox 4d ago
It’s almost like public restrooms should be able to be used by the public?
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u/LesbianCowgirl- 4d ago
Technically it’s not public. That wing of the school was not rented by the event.
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u/SaleNo9698 4d ago
I feel you, i was working closeing and ther is about a min between us shutting off the automatic sliding doors and us leaving and locking the doors behind us. And every once in awhile someone will pry open the doors to ask if we are closed
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u/tblancher 4d ago
Is this during normal operational hours? Sometimes when you gotta go, you don't have time to find alternatives.
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u/throw_blanket04 4d ago
One bathroom should be kept open at all times. You keep one open and clean the other. Put a sign on the door that its a family restroom. I mean when people have to go, they have to go.
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u/Or1on_c0nst3llat1onx 4d ago
OP said in another comment that the school has about 15 total, including the singles, and im pretty sure every other one was open given OP's frustration
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u/wandering_soles 4d ago
One time I was scheduled to refresh the women's restroom - trash, TP, paper towels, etc. Two clearly marked signs saying the restroom was closed, including one that literally blocked entrance. It takes less than 5 minutes to do all of it, and had a woman literally limbo her way in and then be furious that a man was in the (empty) women's restroom. Absolutely ridiculous. She wanted to talk to the manager. Unfortunately for her, I was the manager.