to send a stinking (no pun intended) email round at work...

[cjt110]

I get to work quite early - some days 8.20 and start at 9. Not many people in at this time - about 2/3. Nearly every morning the hallway stinks from someone going to the loo and it wafts through the stairwell and lingers. It's disgusting. They don't spray the provided air freshener, nor open a window.

It's disgusting and yet so easy to resolve. I know we all have bodily functions. But a bit of common sense/decency can be applied surely?

I have holed myself upstairs in my well sealed office away from the smell after going bonkers with the air freshener and opening a window. All it took for 30 seconds max. Another colleague has also made comments similar to me about the smell.

If IANBU, how do you politely, comically perhaps, word said email?

Dear All

The toilet seems to be smelling quite bad most mornings. It doesn't seem to be a plumbing problem so it must be from use. Can whoever is first in the office open the window so we get plenty of air through? And whoever is in last close it again, obviously!

Thanks

Yabu so called air fresheners just aid the smell of a Bratislavan chemical works on top.

Someone needs to sort out an extractor fan.

Ugh!

A man I used to work with always used to come to our toilets to do a stinking shit, even though he usually used a toilet much closer to his own office. Totally deliberate and no windows

We had a rather funny email at work the other day, the toilets on the ground floor at bloody terrible, think unflushed, skid marks, tissue all over the floor or stuffed in the loo and overflowing.

The boss's DD came in (13 yo) and said 'it's worse than my school!'

Queue the email round "we are all adults, please clean up after yourselves, you know who you are."

Good luck on your crusade!

YANBU, I can't believe the state some women leave our toilets in at work. I dread to think what their houses must be like.
I know we all poo, and I do sometimes go at work as I do very long hours, but I double flush, brush and spray.

I had to wipe small lumps of poo off the toilet seat in work the other day. It was a low point if I'm honest. And no, it wasn't mine. Some people have no clue about toilet etiquette!

I used to work somewhere where apparently someone kept crapping on the floor in the men's toilets

We had a tradesman doing a few weeks work on our house. On the days when he bothered turning up (hours later than agreed) the first thing he'd do was take a newspaper upstairs to do a great stinking poo. Why? If you've agreed to start work at 8am and turn up at 2pm, the least you can do is have a poo before you leave your own house, surely?

No point, you will be the bog email person and nothing will change. Somebody inconsiderate enough to leave the loo in a state won't suddenly have an epiphany on account of a work email and change his/ her ways.

I'd actually print out a poster and stick it up in the loos. That way it's not an email which can then be forwarded on and do the rounds and you can keep it anonymous if you like.

Make it very direct: Could whoever uses these loos to do a 'number 2' most mornings, please show some consideration for the rest of us by using the air freshener and opening the window. Thank you!

At work, we have a scene in the toilet saying, "Please leave this toliet as you would like to find it"

As in, "If you dont like seeing shit, dont leave shit."

I always make sure its clean and pleasant smelling after I've used it.

*sign not scene.

But a printed sign will not make someone who shits and leaves it go oh, I'd better think of my colleagues. Only one thing to do, OP, come in even earlier for a couple of days and find the culprit. Have a quiet word.

You could put up a notice in the toilet saying "Please leave this area clean & fresh. Open the window / use the air freshener!" signed, Mrs. PegOnNose.
Then the email wouldn't be down to you personally.

Oh sorry X-post. great minds think alike eh

Passive aggressive signs up?!

Where I used to work we had some passive aggressive signs (e.g. every time you leave the toilet in a mess, a fairy dies) which, when they didn't work, very quickly turned into actually aggressive signs (e.g. if you don't wash your hands, you're a dirty cunt)

Window open - yes
Air freshener - no, they never work. you just get the original smell plus some hideously stinking air freshener

I put up a sign once (a polite request accompanied by a picture of a horse doing a shit iirc). The sign disappeared within the day but it actually worked,as we had no more floaters left floating after that.

Try a sign, you've got nothing to lose.

Someone at work put this poem up:

If you finish your business, don't rush
Please clean the loo with a brush
But we all have to 'go'
And it's not nice you know
If you don't flush and then brush

It didn't work I called it the super cringe loo

Eurgh, YANBU.

Our work toilets used to be repulsive. Think vomit/shit sitting in the pan unflashed and people leaving blocked toilets without making any attempt to unblock them or report them to the cleaners.

I think the culprit responsible must have left, because when they got rid of a few people about six months ago, they miraculously stayed clean!

Um, sorry, windy - there's nothing 'passive aggressive' about what I suggested. It's just a straightforward request, nothing passive aggressive about it.

If you think that is low, we used to get emails round asking the women in the office to stop leaving unwrapped, USED sanitary towels in the open bins and to put them in the sanitary bins provided (right next to the open bins)......I worked with some odd people!!

YANBU but if there aren't many people in it shouldn't be too hard to work out the identity of the phantom dumper

Woman at work used to get in at about 9.30am and leave a massive piss drip on the one toilet allocated for the ladeez I got so fed up of wiping it up I used to make damn sure I got in there before she was in.

Email should probably come from management though. You'll be "that" colleague if you take it upon yourself. Agree with posters in the toilet too. Shame the inconsiderate eliminator!

I asked my manager had he smelt the "pleasant" smell in the hallway this morning (actually meaning the air freshener I'd gone doolally with) and he said "Yes it definitely didn't smell pleasant first thing" and he said he will drop an email around as there is air fresher or a reason and no reason not to use it. There were only 3 people in the office this morning so I am aware who the 3 culprits may be.

I can't believe how some people behave in toilets! DH works in a terribly plush building, all shiny glass and carpets so thick you can't hear footsteps. But the women's toilets my god they're disgusting!

I told DH what a state they were in after my last visit and he said it's a longstanding problem, in the men's as well, they can't seem to get the message through to the staff. I look at these smartly-dressed, professional-looking people and just wonder what gets into them when they go in there .

Quite a few years ago the same company had to fire a married couple who both worked there, for smearing shit on the walls etc in the toilets. I mean, who does that!?

I work in a building with several other companies and we used to share toilets with another company. The toilets were always disgusting, the men's especially. One day my colleague walked in and found a poo on the floor next to the sink . I made numerous complaints to the landlord and the other company but of course the culprits couldn't have come from there .

Funny how, the day after the company went bust and they vacated the building, the condition of both the men's and women's toilets instantly improved.

I'm the only woman in our company now so I have the whole women's toilets on this floor to myself. It's lovely .