AIBU to think violently rattling an occupied toilet door at work is rude?

This often happens in pubs/clubs, and it's always women then, so it's unreasonable to say it's just men!
It is rude-if one person has a genuine issues meaning they need the toilet more urgently than others, could the manager make this known? I get it might be problematic, but places have done this for colleagues with medical conditions.
If this doesn't apply, and they're just rude, maybe an email about not banging on doors would help?

In my case, shitting memories out. IBS is no joke.

I hate when that happens. I always say loudly it’s clearly engaged! So rude.

Sounds intimidating and overly aggressive. Perhaps they couldn't read the Engaged sign.

It would have upset me

Are employers allowed to have cameras in work toilets.l don't mean the actual toilet obviously.

I would mention this to your HR. Another employer may have reported this already.

I think it's rude and also rude to knock and keep knocking on a locked bathroom door. Obviously, someone is in there doing something. They're not going to do their business faster if you knock. I'll take even longer if I get a persistent knocker. Ugh. It's a bugaboo of mine, can you tell? :)

It is, don't worry.

Unfortunately, lots of people appear to be bloody clueless, as this thread shows.

Yes, more than once I've walked past a queue of people who are waiting for people to come out of unoccupied cubicles

Some people don’t even look at the ‘engaged’ sign also sometimes it shows engaged when it isn’t

I find it really irritating , it’s happened to me often.
Many small cafes where I live only have the one toilet cubicle and inevitably someone will rattle the door while I’m mid pee !
The number of times someone has rattled the door .
I started to call out “ hey someone is in here “
always a bit concerned the lock will fail and i will be seen sat on the toilet 😳 as that’s happened to me before in a family toilet where I had my 2 younger girls with me 😱 bloke with his small boys barged right in !
He was mortified and extremely apologetic, we told the staff of the establishment to get it fixed

In my experience, quite often in public loos it isn't easy to tell from the outside that the cubicle is occupied. The door slider thingies are not always very well designed or well maintained. So, sometimes the only way to tell is to try to open the door. Quite clearly you only do so briefly and back off if it doesn't open!

Asserting yourself against locked private spaces is normally called worse than rude.

But so what if they were? That doesn’t give them
the right to be rude to someone already on the toilet.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t want a random bloke seeing me wash period blood off my hands because my PCOS has flared up (yet again).

Perhaps they were absolutely desperate?

I wonder how many newer offices have been built like this. The office I work in has a huge amount of space on each floor given over to single person unisex toilets, but it doesn't have enough small meeting rooms. That's what happens when ideology trumps actual business requirements.

I was in a supermarket toilet recently and someone came in, and instead of using the empty cubicle next to me, rattled my door which was clearly locked then stuck their hand round the gap to unlock it from the inside! Wtf?? I shouted. I still can’t understand it.

This used to happen to me at work a lot when I had colon cancer. One particular woman took against how long I was in the bathroom each day and would come and knock aggressively on the door.

One day, I got off the toilet, pulled my trousers back up, opened the door, and asked her what her problem was.

I told her she looked very strange and was behaving antisocially. I told her I needed her to move away from the bathroom because her actions could be read as intimidating.

She didn't know I had cancer and neither did I, but I was very very ill.

Horrible bully of a woman.

Very rude.

I don't want him to see me washing blood off mine after another perimenopausal flood.

Men's and women's toilets should be separate for privacy and dignity. I don't want men in that communal space.

By law a unisex toilet must be in a secure room with floor to ceiling walls and door and the sink must be in the room with the toilet.
If the set up has sinks outside the cubicles and/or door/wall gaps then by law they must be single sex.
Anywhere that just changes the sign on the outside of single sex facilities without making any other changes is breaching the buildings and premises act, the workplace facilities health and safety act and the equality act and are setting themselves up for multiple successful lawsuits and potential criminal charges under the health and safety act

Is seeing a man washing his hands so terrible?

@Futurehappiness you should complain to your employer and point out that only having unisex toilets is indirect sex discrimination to women and that having a person who is harassing you and others when using the toilet is unacceptable