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To be disgusted in dirty habits of women at work

75 replies

LittleMissFussyPants · 25/09/2012 15:53

I cannot believe how many times i have been in the ladies toilets at my work lately to be greeted by, and there's no nicer way of putting this, a mess in the bowl. I think it is disgusting that anyone would leave this for the next person to come along and can't believe it happens so often in the ladies. Why should i have to keep flushing other peoples business away just because they are too lazy and shameless. Then there's the getting out of the toilet quickly in case someone thinks it was me......euwww it makes me sick.
I want to write a note on the door that gets the point across any suggestions Smile

OP posts:
AlmostAGoldHipster · 25/09/2012 16:54

Once, at my vair posh private school, someone did a whirly splat ON THE SEAT!!!

Cue loads of pre-teens rushing to have a look!

bakingaddict · 25/09/2012 16:59

Where I work I have witnessed with my own eyes men coming out of our ladies loo, maybe they think they are having a shit in a more rarified atmosphere but it's disgusting. Use your own fecking toilet for god's sake!

Pandemoniaa · 25/09/2012 17:08

Just write a simple notice in big black marker:

"It might be a shithouse but there's no need to treat it like a shytehole"

autumnlights12 · 25/09/2012 17:13

took my dc's into the ladies at a service station recently and the seat was smeared in menstrual I hope blood. Loads of it. Yuck.

MinesaBottle · 25/09/2012 17:22

I once found a used sanitary towel on the floor in the loos at work - this wasn't even in a cubicle but the open part with the sinks Shock

I wrapped my hand in a lot of loo roll and put the horrible thing in the bin. I was mortified on the cleaner's behalf, God knows what she'd have thought because what I thought was unrepeatable enough. I mean, how on earth did it end up there?!?!

mintsauceandgravy · 25/09/2012 18:59

We had a phantom shiter at my old work. A sign on the door saying "if its brown make sure it goes down" worked a treat!
Grin

Kveta · 25/09/2012 19:05

you could have a diagram of a toilet on the back of the door with helpful arrows saying 'SIT HERE' and 'FLUSH THIS'

or a sign saying 'It appears that some employees have yet to learn how to use a toilet. For their sake, here are some clear instructions' - then have a deeply sarcastic list of helpful bog-usage pointers.

Failing that, kill them all.

LineRunner · 25/09/2012 19:09

We once had a phantom snot-wiper-on-the-wall at somewhere I worked.

Honsandrevels · 25/09/2012 19:12

At the church toddler group I go to there is a note on a bin next to the loo which says 'Please dispose of sanitary waste in this bin. Jesus loves you'.

It always makes me chuckle.

Salmotrutta · 25/09/2012 19:12

bakingaddict - I'm almost certain that men using ladies loos (or even vice versa) is a serious disciplinary matter?? Shock

We had a unisex loo at one school I worked at. I hate that.

And, and, ... I too have seen women coming out of the loo and not washing their hands Shock. Yuck.

Salmotrutta · 25/09/2012 19:14

Eeeewww Line - somehow that seems even worse

... you have the nicest stories Grin

LineRunner · 25/09/2012 19:19

I've had the nicest jobs, Salmo. Grin

There were once toilets on the Egyptian/Israel road border that were a just a flowing carpeted mass of liquid shit from floor to celing. You'd have needed a water cannon poitning into a galactic wormhole to clean them.

trixie123 · 25/09/2012 19:20

what gets me at our work is that one of the loos that sort of "belongs" to the Boss's PA has a notice saying that "because the loo is used by visitors as well as staff please leave it as you would wish to find it" - which seems to suggest that all the other loos that are just staff loos can be left in any old state because the staff don't matter. The PA would love to stop us plebs using it I know but hasn't quite got the front!

MarysBeard · 25/09/2012 19:20

When I used to work in an office I heard people complaining about the smell a couple of times, not long after I had been in Blush

I had left the toilet clean, but with no spray air freshener, what are you meant to do. Come out and announce to the office "I'd give it a few minutes if I were you...?"

LineRunner · 25/09/2012 19:20

pointing

FancyPuffinsSockPuppet · 25/09/2012 19:21

Can you watch the toilets in question to find the culprit? Then write a note for all to see..

Sandra from accounting is a dirty shitter

for example...

noblegiraffe · 25/09/2012 19:31

I can't remember if I read this anecdote on MN or somewhere else but it made me laugh

A woman walks into a cubicle and it's a horrible shitty mess so she goes 'urgh' and walks straight out again. She's then doing her hair in the mirror when a colleague walks into the same cubicle, also says 'yuk' and walks out. So the woman at the mirror says conversationally 'I just did that!' and smiles

... Then later realises what the other woman must have thought Blush

Salmotrutta · 25/09/2012 19:33

A sort of Toilet Stake-out FancyPuffin?

With binoculars, a zoom lens and a spiral-bound notebook?

Sandra from accounting .... Grin

ChrissasMissis · 25/09/2012 19:37

Do you work at the same place as me, by any chance? Our loos are always like this...it's so grim. Actually, it got so bad recently, someone laminated a picture of a loo brush and stuck it on the inside of the cubicle door, with "This is not an installation" written underneath...

Scaredbutdoingit · 25/09/2012 19:39

I wondered and wondered about this for a long time myself (having unfortunately encountered it many times), and I now actually wonder if there aren't some people out there who deliberately do it because of the reaction it will provoke.
Poo-trolls basically.

BrianCoxIsUpTheDuff · 25/09/2012 19:42

ah, I work in a women-dominated company.

The loos are plastered with 'gentle' reminders about keeping them clean.

Please clean up your shit,
Cos we don't wanna see it,
It's not a nice thing to do,
So please clean up the loo

(beautiful!)

We are a classy bunch Wink

MarysBeard · 25/09/2012 19:44

What do you do in a public loo if there is no brush? If the flush doesn't work at all...?

BrianCoxIsUpTheDuff · 25/09/2012 19:44

Scared I do believe it is an act of defiance, people who are unhappy in their role/with the company.

It is revolting, uncalled for and they should be ashamed of being so filthy.

Meant to say in my last post, I haven't witnessed anything in work but have heard....unpleasant tales Envy

Idocrazythings · 25/09/2012 19:45

Don't be in a rush
Make sure you stay and flush

confusedpixie · 25/09/2012 19:47

I'm glad I don't work in an office Grin

I find this in public loos, today my toddler charge picked up a sanitary towel from the lid of the waste bin. As in the lid that the owner would have only had to lift to put it in. I don't think she's ever had me screech "Ah! That's dirty! Put it down! Put it down!" so quickly in her life Blush
Pee on seats is common too, why can people not wipe their bright yellow piss from the seat I do not know! Poo too And tampon applicators floating in the toilet Hmm Never worked that one out really.

Some people are just scummers.