Cleaner told me off

No he isn't paid to put other people's rubbish in the bin....

you left your (Sanitary?) rubbish on top of a bin, when there was a perfectly useable bin near, for someone else to clear up.

you're still being unreasonable.

perhaps - but OP says there was another bin, which she miraculously was able to use after her rubbish was given back to her after leaving it out.

You are being unreasonable.

If everyone left just a paper bag and napkin the loos would be a bloody tip. It's sickening at times how people leave public facilities!

Why should other users or the cleaning staff pick up after you?

Kind of begs the question - why were you ferrying an empty paper bag around with you, and why, when you finally decided to dispose of it did a sanitary bin in the toilets seem like a good choice.

If the rubbish wasn’t snotty or sani waste, most people would take it and put it in the normal bin not leave it on top of the sani bin the toilet.

it’s grim going into a loo with waste piled on top of the sani bin because you don’t know what it is. Or people who stuff their used sanitary towels into the handle of the bins 🤢🤢

No, he isn’t. He’s not employed to wait on lazy, spoilt people who imagine putting their rubbish in the bin can be outsourced to the cleaning staff.

YABU surely you have a bin or wastepaper basket under or near your desk? Why didn't you take your rubbish there?
Rubbish goes IN bins, not on top of them. And actually a cleaner's job is to clean. not to pick up after you.

Cleaners are there to clean the office, not pick up rubbish after adults who think they’re too good to throw their own rubbish away.

There are so many scummy people in this country who think it’s acceptable to leave toilets in disgusting condition because the people cleaning them are either ethnic minorities or women or both.

I hope there is a special place in hell for them where they have to clean other people’s shit.

As the UK’s biggest cleaning company says:

Responsibility may be down to you as the employer, but that doesn’t mean staff can’t do their bit to ensure the environment is as hygienic and pleasant as possible.

But why didn't you just lift the bin lid up????

Bizarre choice tbh.

If you don’t want to touch the bin it could just go in your bag until you found an open bin?

Maybe he was having a bad day so blew up, but it was poor form.

chin up, now you know for next time. You’ll be fine.

Unless he has been in before and knew she dropped them and left them.

No he isn't. He's paid to clean the offices. The fact that there are too many inconsiderate people who don't use the bins provided is not his fault. Put your rubbish in the CORRECT bin (which is not the sanitary bin).

Why, when you won’t respond to the very first post asking why you didn’t lift the bin lid and dispose of your rubbish?

Why do you think the cleaner should have to pick up your rubbish that you’re too lazy to put in the bin?

Still rude, you couldn't be bothered to take your rubbish with you nor put it in the bin.

If you didn't like the fact you had to touch the lid of the bin, then you could have seen the cleaner (by waiting you would've done this) and then given him the rubbish in his rubbish bag/container etc, or asked him to take it, or you could take it with you.

Agreed with @ClaudiaWankleman he was rude to stuff the rubbish in your bag. I hope you don't report him for doing this.

I'm pleased he pulled you up on this. Cleaners have a hard enough job as it is, especially the ones at workplaces.

Well you were being unreasonable to leave it on the top of the toilet, but he was being unreasonable to stuff it into your bag. He is paid to put it into the bin, whether he thinks he should have to or not.

a) a paper bag doesn't and shouldn't go in the sanitary bin, so it's irrelevant that the bin wouldn't open. It's usually a safety measure to indicate the bin is full.
b) how was the cleaner to know what it was? It was on top of a sanitary bin.
c) his behaviour was perfectly appropriate in response to someone who had not taken her own rubbish with her and had placed it on top of a bin for soiled waste (so it may well have been soiled waste as far as he could tell.
d) the sanitary bins are usually not the responsibility of the cleaners. They are collected specifially for disposal.

You were being unreasonable, OP. Stop trying to justify what you did and accept this.

If there is a female using the female toilet for any reason at all then the male cleaner needs to wait. Simple as.

Handing the towels from the floor was out of order. It's his job to pick them up not the OPs.

Because it's never just one thing - it's ten or twenty or more people a week thinking "this can't hurt, it's only a bit of paper or a small spill or a bit of mess" only it's not when it's people constantly leaving stuff because "the cleaner will do it"

It's fucking disrespectful and annoying.

You managed to find another bin when you were pulled up on it and handed your rubbish - why couldn't you have used that bin in the first place? Very rude and lazy to leave your rubbish for someone else to deal with.

The entitlement is really something else.

Do you like using toilets piled with rubbish? Do you like picking up after lazy people who can't be arsed to go to a proper bin....

Most sanitary bins are collected by a specialist waste company contracted for the job...i bet the cleaner was just clearing up shit dropped by twats.

This! It used to annoy me to have to wait for people to leave the loos because they were doing make up or whatever, especially because it put me over my shift!

No issue at all with doing your makeup in the work toilet if it's before your start time/company doesn't care much about lateness.

The rubbish thing - bit grim but to pick paper towels off the floor and put them on your bag wtf?? I'd have apologised for my rubbish and maybe said i thought no harm done if he was emptying the bin anyway, won't do it again etc. but I'd have handed the paper towels back and said they weren't mine!