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Workman using my toilet!

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NorthernBird92 · 21/03/2016 14:31

2 workmen have literally just arrived they will be here for a maximum of 15 mins.
One of the men asked to use my toilet of course that's fine. 10 mins later he emerges. He didn't open the toilet window and left the toilet door open so I can smell a very nasty smell! My bathroom and toilet are seperate and he definitely did not go into the bathroom and wash his hands.
Am I be U to be annoyed at this or am I being a hormonal crazy lady?

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Mousefinkle · 21/03/2016 18:21

I'm with you bluemoon, first thing I thought of! Once viewed a house like this, bath and sink in one room and toilet in a separate right next to it. It's the only reason I wouldn't move in. Yes yes to the door handles.

I can understand not opening the window. Some people are funny about their windows being opened, I don't think I'd open somebody's window without their permission. But he definitely should've cleaned the marks up and washed his hands.

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NorthernBird92 · 21/03/2016 18:25

Sadly blue moon were in army married quarters so have no choice really on what house we get...
I haven't reported him and won't it wasn't about that I was just Abit disgusted that he expected me to clean his shit up ... Literally

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NorthernBird92 · 21/03/2016 18:25

We are not were

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SmellySourdough · 21/03/2016 18:25

yabu not to have hand washing facilities in the toilet.

Oldraver · 21/03/2016 18:49

yabu not to have hand washing facilities in the toilet.

Really ?

Gottagetmoving · 21/03/2016 18:56

report him? what would you say - your workman had a poo and didn't wash his hands and he left some skidmarks in my toilet? erm right... I guess most businesses would think your a bit bonkers for that

The Company I worked for would take it very seriously. The man would have been given a warning because we had a strict code of conduct about customer care.
I doubt the workman bothered to check whether he had left any 'residue' I think there are too many men who just don't.
If more men cleaned toilets hey may change their sloppy attitudes.

TheCricketWidow · 21/03/2016 19:01

Similar thing happened to us a few years ago..we had a friend of a friend laying laminate flooring in a bedroom next to the bathroom, my husband had tiled the bathroom and done a good job however as our house is very old none of the walls are straight- husband says to friend of a friend about the tiles "its the best i can do, they're never going to be perfectly straight" to which the bloke replied "yeah i noticed they were a bit off when i was having a shite". I was like Confused

TheCricketWidow · 21/03/2016 19:05

Posted too soon. He must have then gone home and told his wife that he'd used our facilities, she was horrified and drove to ours to offer to clean the toilet!

YoureAllABunchOfBastards · 21/03/2016 19:05

We have no sink in our loo and no way of putting one in. We have hand sanitiser on the shelf though.

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NorthernBird92 · 21/03/2016 19:11

I shall write a letter tommorow morning requesting a sink to be put into our toilet room so that I am not being unreasonable to people needing to use my facilities
Hmm

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Gottagetmoving · 21/03/2016 19:18

Lots of toilets don't have a wash hand basin! Houses built over 40 years ago did not have them.
My daughter's house doesn't have one.
It's not that unusual so I don't know why people seem so horrified.

expatinscotland · 21/03/2016 19:21

I've stayed at some low-budget hotels in Europe that have the sink outside of the toilet.

SmellySourdough · 21/03/2016 19:22

ours didn't either.
we replaced the loo with one with a sink on top of the cistern. took dh 20 min to install.

jeremyisahunt · 21/03/2016 20:03

If I was you OP I would just burn down the whole fucking house and start fresh. You can't be too careful.

Northernparent68 · 21/03/2016 20:29

I think there's an element of snobbery in some of the posts, why else mention it was a workman ? all that's happened is that some left a smell, or stain on a toilet.

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NorthernBird92 · 21/03/2016 20:35

Because it was a workman Hmm
If your referring to me with snobbery I don't really think that being disgusted or annoyed at somebody leaving their shit bits in my toilet is snobbery do you?

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NorthernBird92 · 21/03/2016 20:36

And yes that is all that happened but the person who did it was a grown man who should have acted better

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lamiashiro · 21/03/2016 20:39

We had to move our bath towels out of the bathroom when the builders were in because they kept using them instead of the hand towel I'd hung right by the sink. At least they were washing their hands, I guess.

Penguinepenguins · 21/03/2016 20:50

YANBU its bloody disgusting to leave the toilet in that mess - 15 min job and 10
Mins of that was in the loo - yuck yuck yuck

I have had builders do this to me in the past (also had piss all over the floor) and it's just incredibly disrespectful and plain disgusting not to leave the loo in the state you find it... Although once I went in terrified to find what mess it would be in (because of bad experience with builders that morning) to find it was exactly how it had been found and had even had a bit of bleach put down it :) And he did a brilliant job recommended him for many jobs after that!

I wouldn't say it's snobbery to say it was a workman/builder -if it was a guest I'm sure the OP would say it was a guest. It was a workman that's not snobbery just stating who the offender is!

BigQueenBee · 21/03/2016 21:14

This isn't anything new, where do you expect him to go? Shit in a plant pot? Get real we all shit and piss.
Poo smells, I'd have thought you might have got used to this by now. Nappies are evil, far worse than adult shit.

expatinscotland · 21/03/2016 21:28

He left the toilet a mess and didn't wash his hands, Big. That's fucking rude.

Thewinedidit · 21/03/2016 21:37

We had an asda delivery a few months ago. I was at work, DH opened the door and the delivery guy said "Can I use your toilet I'm desperate for a shit". Thankfully I wasn't in to experience the full aftermath of his poo (which according to DH was horrendous) but as soon as my coat was off I had bleached and disinfected the loo door handles and all.

Everyone does it you just don't need to be so fucking disgusting about it. Crack a window, throw some bleach down the pan. Manners.

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NorthernBird92 · 21/03/2016 21:40

I'm not bothered so much that he did it in my toilet it's the fact he just left shit for me to clean ! That's what's disgusting.

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NorthernBird92 · 21/03/2016 21:42

I really can't understand why people are calling me a snob and making me out to be completely dramatic ....

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Oysterbabe · 21/03/2016 21:46

All these people with loo brushes. This is MN right?