Aibu to resent people loitering in the toilets at work

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Dodgy stomach at work today resulting in less than refined sounds from the cubicle. Our loos are inclined to echo horribly. It's all very embarrassing. On arrival there was a girl I know there wading her hands so she saw me go in. She then faffed around for 10 minutes cleaning her teeth, brushing her hair and applying makeup while I tried unsuccessfully to keep the noise down. If I eyeball someone entering a loo I exit quickly to give them privacy but maybe iabu?

YANBU. As someone who has had bowel cancer and resection and has to "go" at work every day it's one of my pet hates.

Buzz Have you tried putting some paper in the loo first - it usually stops anything being audible. Having said that, I doubt anyone would notice a wee. I've done it in the past when having an IBS attack ( not fun in work toilets).

I'll admit, sometimes I do go to the loo for a bit of peace and quiet at work and stay in the cubicle longer than strictly necessary (not always, just on a bad day). But if I heard noises or smelled smells I would be out of there pretty sharpish

YANBU I hate this! Also if I want a wee and someone is there I get 'stage fright' and can't go!! my old office had big gaps at the bottom of the stalls and you could see who was in the loo. We had a girl who would do full hair and makeup for ages in the loos and everyone hated it.

If I go into the work loo and can see that the person before has done a huge crap and not flushed properly I leave straight away - even if I want a wee, as I don't want people to think it's me! The loos at my old work had loads of stories, you wouldn't believe the emails that used to go round the office! Always the ladies loos as well. Never the men!

This is why I'm so glad I have a radar key to use the disabled toilets (I AM registered disabled btw). But I'm of the opinion that if someone doesn't like the noises made by someone using the toilet,then don't loiter in a public toilet. The person can't help having an upset stomach, they are not making noises on purpose to disgust you.

YANBU. Do you work where I work! There's a girl on my floor who brushes her teeth, touches up her makeup and redoes her hair 2 or 3 bloody times a day. I get major stage fright and can't wee when there's someone there. When I'm washing my hands and someone comes in I always make a hasty exit in case they have weeing anxiety like me

I would use the disabled toilet (we have nobody who needs it in the office) but the cyclists hang up their nasty, sweaty lycra in there and it reeks.

YABU. I hate if people do their make up at their desk and think they should just piss off to the toilets! Where would one brush their teeth at work if not the toilets? The kitchen?

I went in the other week and a manager and someone who's in her department were having a full blown meeting .. then there's me inches from them weeing. Just odd.

At my old place once I walked into a toilet cubicle to see something that I can only describe as looking like a villain from Dr Who. Someone had been very poorly shall we say, and decided that in order to mask the smell, they would claw open the lid off the solid neutradol air freshener and scrape it down the toilet to cover up their 'doings'. I ran out of the loo!!

add to this people (usually teenagers I have to say)who sit, fully clothed, in changing rooms, playing on their phones, while everyone else is stripping down next to them/trying to use the lockers they are blocking. Like OP, they're not doing anything wrong, or that their not perfectly entitled to. But even if you were enough of a pain in the arse not to realise that you were taking up valuable space, or to consider that you might be making others uncomfortable, why would you want to sit on a hard bench in an airless, busy room surrounded by naked randoms when you could go have a coffee on the comfy sofas in the bar, or sit in the sun? Weird...

Hummus Highlight of a business trip to Nice was being totally baffled by the high tech loo, giving up on the gadgets .... and then having a water cannon of cold water suddenly blasting all over my arse and knickers

I have a colleague who loves to escape her work to hang out in the loos. She's like Moaning Myrtle and regales everyone who enters with tales of woe.

At work I politely asked people to take their mobile call out of the toilets if I went in and someone was there on a call. I didn't realise it was an accepted thing now.

My old office used to have several toilet loiterers but I found what was even worse was when I'd dash to the loo desperate for a rare poo Sod's law I'd spot that someone else was in one of the other cubicles. We'd the have this weird thing where the stranger and I are both in our own cubicles, not peeing, not pooing, probably holding our breath waiting for the other person to just -fuck off- pee and leave, but of course they wouldn't, so I wouldn't poo and I'd end up flushing an empty toilet and doing an angry hand wash, exit stomp and bum clench.

I have now worked out which shops near work have customer toilets so I can nip out and use theirs instead of work Loos if my Ibs is playing up!!

Yanbu OP why must people lurk in the lavs?

Derailing your thread with a Japanese toilet story though (sorry)
We went to Japan on our honeymoon (it was amazing, would highly recommend!).
The toilets are awesome!
There was an exception though. Used a public toilet, v fancy one. No usual flush lever or button, ok, let's consult the toilet console with a dozen buttons on it then.
Pressed a likely button but instead of actually flushing, the toilet simply played a flushing noise! Argh!
So whilst the toilet is pretending to flush I'm panicking a bit pressing all the buttons and hoping I don't get sprayed in the face. Had flushing noise and classical music at one point, like some sort of toilet party was going on in there
You live and learn I guess!

We've got a note on ours saying number 1s only. 🙁
Number 2 use a porta loo
May as well have a meagaphone to announce that you're doing a shite.
I cover my ears if I have to poo, if I don't hear it I can't get embarrassed.

Twice I've opened a cubicle door in work (they open outward) to be confronted by a woman (think it was the first one both times) on the bog, knickers akimbo. She shouts in an affronted and shocked way as if I'm a pervert, but wtf does she not just lock the door?

Yanbu. I hate it. There was a woman who would have loud phone conversations and if someone so much as weed her tone would change to disgust. A poo and she'd voice it like mutter the word 'foul'. It's a toilet ffs.

One day, heavily pregnant with such painful haemarroids I nearly cried, she started making her comments and I lost my temper. Mid bloody and painful strain I shouted at her to Fuck off and find somewhere else to be lazy. I didn't even register the stunned silence and lack of leaving until I limped out. She was waiting for an apology! I know I shouldn't have sworn i think she deserved telling off though.