Workman needing to loo for a poo - MN Fav

[HighPrecisionGhosts]

Having roofing stuff done.
Just walking out of the door to take the dog for a walk and they are sat in their vans.

One asks to use the loo.

OK. That is fine

He goes to the loo.

This was at 7.50am. It is now 8.15. Dog is whining. I have no immune system at the moment due to treatment so hoping he's not got nasty virus.

How long does it take to poo.....

Come on now. I'm not leaving my door unlocked.

Many years ago we lived in a flat in a large old house and had extensive structural work carried out because of subsidence, following which all the flats were redecorated. We were all young and naive and let the builders and decorators have full access when we were at work. The week after the work was finally completed all five flats were burgled, with no signs of forced entry. There had been so many people with access to our keys over a long period that it was impossible to identify who it might have been who copied our keys. I've never left any stranger in our house alone since then.

Me. I timed him. I had my coat on, the dog on their lead and had walked out of my front door when asked.

If I had been in doing work, in the house I'd not be timing. But stood on my doorstep, for the want of something to do - I timed them.

I knew the time I left the house because I was heading out with one of my children who walks up to school at the same time every day They went. I waited and waited and waited.

They should have a luxury poo in their own time, not mine. (Fantastic terminology - never heard of that until today).

OMG - why do boys and men take so long? And why can't he go at home anyway?
Back at home, my bro took so long in the morning that my sis or I HAD to be allowed into the bathroom at the same time or we'd have never got to school!

A lot of the time, it's because they're on the phone watching "something" and doing "something" with their hand!!

I don't think it's just men. My daughter spends at least 30 minutes on the toilet when she has a dump, whereas my husband is in and out in a couple of minutes. I must confess that I've watched the odd episode of Brookside on my iPad 😆😆

@HighPrecisionGhosts , I got so fed up of workmen crapping in my toilet when we had work done I contemplated removing the toilet roll; you have my sympathy. God only knows why they need to be in their half an hour either. 🤢

Jesus. Fucking. Christ.

I think that’s wise - or if unavoidable because works are for a longer period change all locks they had access to.

Having people you don’t know in the house for more than a few hours on a non-social basis is a deeply weird dynamic. In their mind it kind of becomes their territory in the sense they are working there; but it’s really odd to find people acting “ in charge” in your home.

I’ve had it when working from home and they’ve said things like “ well we have to be drilling at 11 to get the boards all in by 3” when I’ve asked if they could please not drill in the background while I’m on a teams call. It’s a very weird dynamic to have these, essentially, strangers calling the shots ( and pooing in your loo!) in what is literally the bosom of your own home. I don’t think it’s rocket science that this feels very intrusive, and think workmen need to be a bit sensitive to it. Ditto when they arrive unannounced because they had a spare day from another job. It’s not their property.

LUXURY POO 💀

Last time I had major work done I hired a portaloo for the duration. So pleased I did as saved all the awkwardness.

But if you want them to get the boards in by 3 what do you expect them to do while you're on your call? Some work is noisy.

I bet he assumed you'd just gone and had a nice little break on his phone.

I worked telephone customer services when I was young. We sent engineers to people's homes to fix & service appliances.
I answered the phone to a very irate woman complaining about one of our men (the nicest of the lot) She had allowed him to use her toilet and he left a 'terrible smell ' 😳
He had not left a mess and had apologised. Poor guy was unwell, then off for several days with a bug.
I'm unsure what she wanted me to do about this 😂
I would never leave a workman alone in my home.
The only time I haven't been here when workman have (Agent let them in for annual gas safety check that just couldn't wait a week til I returned from holiday) someone had opened and smoked some of my tobacco, urinated in the toilet, leaving it unflushed with the seat up, left a hot tap running AND left my heating on. Mid summer 😡

Usually I don’t: that was their deadline.

ETA it was only a 15 min call - not as long as they would vanish for a luxury poo!

It was just an inability to work around others needs ( aka the property owner and person paying them). The point is really that they can get a territorial sense of others people’s homes and they need to temper that in the way they approach the job. Rising twenty minutes early to have a luxury poo in their own loo before work is another example of this approach that could be usefully adopted in many cases …

… because that’s the other thing op: if they are on a day or hourly rate, you paid for every moment of that luxury poo!

Personally I don’t get it. I do what I need to do and leave rather than sit percolating in the mists. Also sitting twenty minutes in that position would give me the creeps that I would induce proplase. I’m an in and outer when it comes to loo visits!

I wouldn’t let them use my toilet at all. Certainly not to rock up for their morning dump. That’s disgusting. They wouldn’t be getting tea or coffee either. Bring a flask. Whenever we’ve had workman for an extended period they arrange a portaloo of some kind.

Why do men take so bloody long???

I was in a cafe and new a bloke had gone loo before me and he was still in there. Another woman came along and when I was going in I warned her he had been ages. Well I can tell you what he wasn't doing - flushing and using the loo brush! I told her this and she rolled her eyes!

We had LOVELY builders doing some work on our house for a couple of months. But I made the fatal error of allowing them to use our loo. Fucking hell the stink after one of them did his morning dump nearly every day 🤮 Lesson learned... the next time we have long term building work, they'll be instructed to bring a portaloo!!!!

A friend of mine solved the issue by removing the toilet paper from her loo before her builders arrived every day 🤣

Don't remove the loo roll!

They might use your towels or shower curtain!

You might have had a point if she was banging on the door after 2 minutes but it was already nearly half an hour by the time she posted, during whichshe was paying him and wanted to leave the house!

Most peoples jobs wouldn't let them take that long to sitaround while on the clock. It does not take that long to have a poo and if it does there's something seriously wrong with him and he shouldn't be working!

@BarbaraHoward , not just me.

Needing to poo isn’t gross in itself but the thought of a stranger pooing on your toilet is gross to plenty of people. I know I’d find it gross if someone was in my toilet for 25 mins

Older boys and men maybe. But if N or I were in the bathroom when our bro was on the toilet, he wasn't doing anything with his hand (except reaching for the tp and pushing us away!!).

I knew someone who had a workman use her loo. The log didn't flush and she had to cut it up into sections. Now, I don't know if she had a poo knife or what but I wasn't going to ask for details. Also know someone who had a brother say he stuck their toothbrushes up his arse if they had pissed him off. What is wrong with some people? DH spends AGES in the loo. They're on their phones I bet. Probably have a loo seat imprint on their legs for the rest of the day.