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?

Yuck! But could be worse. My Dad used to work somewhere where there was a "logger". For those of you who don't know what that means (I didn't!), it's when someone does a massive log size poo, then leaves it in the toilet unflushed. ??

We have a number of squatters here that refuse to sit on the seat, even with the paper covers, known elegantly as ass gaskets. I need to wipe off the seat way too often.

Minging! Shit particles fly up with force to go twenty feet high when toilets are flushed, even if you haven't shit in them that time. Norovirus is airborne and highly contagious, so you could all be breathing in that treat as well as faecal matter. Start wearing a face mask to work?

Ah but the logger could be doing unflushable logs

As a 'crohnie' and a colostomy wearer I always carry special fragrance that I can pop in the loo...... It's prescription :)
My poo has been known to make people throw up (I wish I was joking)

A while back I worked in a very small office where there was only one loo, to be shared by everyone. The same guy used to go in at exactly 10.30am every morning without fail for a massive dump, re-emerging at exactly 10.58am. It was torture! Eventually the MD told him off for persistently pooing in company time and making the whole office stench!

Tape a large sign to the window that reads "IF YOU SHIT, OPEN IT".

That just makes it sound like the world's worst pass the parcel though Dave.

wannabe what's the fragrance called? Apparently poo does smell worse when you have a colostomy.

Fortunately (!) I can't go in public/at work, which is a good job really, as my choices are 1) windowless ladies' toilet with a sink area and 2 cubicles (the kind with walls that don't reach to the floor) and no window. Or 2) disabled toilet which is more private, has windows that open, but the door opens straight into the main corridor at work, and being only one cubicle everyone would know instead of suspect it was me made the smell!

My stoma nurse gives it to me in little bottles.... It has lavender in it. I only need it if I have an emergency at school (am a teacher) and I need to change. Unfortunately there is only one staff loo so I need to fumigate :)

Wannabe, please could you tell me what the lavender stuff is called? My DF is really struggling with the stoma/smell issue and he needs to ask his stoma nurse for some of this.

If you pm me I will send it to you....