to HATE shitting at work!? (Lighthearted)

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Sorry for the crude title!! Am I alone with this phobia!? Absolutely hate having to do a number 2 at work, the fact you're away from your desk for longer than usual everyone KNOWS what you're up to!
Am I being completely unreasonable or are there other insane people out there too who share this phobia?

It doesn't bother me at all, which is just as well as I often go at work

I agree about bloody hoverers. WHY do I want to sit where your urine has been wiped? Fgs, sit down, it really is gross. I am happy to poo and wee wherever there is a toilet, hot water, soap and a towel. It's perfectly natural and I couldn't care less if I hear someone else go. Let it out sister!

I have bowel issues that mean I have had to get comfortable with using public toilets quite quickly! I actually relish pooing on company time but hate it if anyone comes in. There are only three stalls in our toilet block and it's absolutely evident what you're doing. If it were a more private affair I would have no issues at all with it.

I make sure I do at least one every time I go to work. Getting paid to poop and saving on my loo roll 😁

We have just moved to a new building and to stop staff from disappearing for a long time in the toilet to waste time/mess about (not that I’m sure anyone did unless someone hung around outside checking) The toilets now open directly in to the main open plan office so if someone does do a poo everyone can smell it! There are 2 doors to get in to the toilet area but the smell still floats out and you can hear toilets flushing and hand dryers going

I don’t know how all you people hold it in

Neither do I. I'm another one who gets a few minutes notice and then I have to go as it's going to come out anyway TBH and I don't have any bowel issues, in fact I'm very healthy in that respect.

I once tried to hold it in because I was out hiking and there were too many people around to go behind a rock/in the woods etc and it was really really uncomfortable, painful in fact, I could barely walk and then it wouldn't come out when I did get to the toilet.

I have a poo at work several times a week because when I need to go, I just go and do it. Try it, it's liberating.

I find people talking about shitting infinitely weirder than people actually doing it tbh.

In fact, as a teacher, the only people I know in real life who feel the need to go around discussing it tend to be 9 year old boys who find it hilarious.

I hate pooing at work, but mostly because I worry about not being able to clean myself really thoroughly afterwards and having a smell when I return.

What I don't like is when your colleagues follow you into the washroom. The washroom is only a few seconds' walk away from the room we're in and the washroom door is quite noisy on closing so everyone knows you've gone in there.

What I don't understand is why they don't give you 5 minutes till you're done and returned to desk before they go in there. Why do people want to listen to what other people are doing or be heard themselves?

The explanation is fairly obvious. They go when they need to go. It's not that they want to listen or be heard, it just doesn't occur to them that it's a problem given that all concerned are performing a natural function that everyone does all the time.

I always find a quiet toilet in the building at work that hardly anyone uses. I simply can't hold it in until I get home! I do hate pooing if I think other people can go in straight afterwards and smell it! At my MIL's house she refuses to have a lock on the bathroom door and pooing there is so stressful knowing anyone can walk in on me. It's also right opposite the kitchen and living room so everyone's aware of me being in there. I find I get completely constipated there because it's so stressful to go. I sometimes don't for a week and it's so uncomfortable!

I thought most people train themselves to go before they leave the house (eg after breakfast and before showering) then don’t need to go again until they’re home (or the next morning). I have a long commute so needing to go again isn’t an option when stuck in traffic, i have IBD so if it’s flaring up I take Imodium etc to stop it. If it’s really bad I call in sick.

If you need to go multiple times a day doesn’t that imply over-active bowels and need to see a doctor?

Personally I find it really annoying when people make the toilets at work reek, there are only 2 on our floor and I don’t want to wee or change a pad in a loo that smells like a sewer! At the very least they could use air freshener or better yet go to a loo further afield, so the smell doesn’t drift into the corridor and into all the offices!

I've never heard of anyone training their bowels into a predictable schedule, is that really a thing? Is it even possible?

The last time I saw a thread about this, someone posted that the NHS website said that anywhere between 3 times a day and 3 times a week was perfectly normal.

And anyway, needing to go at work, or indeed anywhere other than ones own toilet is not an indicator of a medical condition, simply that a person's randomly timed need to shit coincides with the significant amount of time that they are out of the house each day.

If I went to my GP and said "I need to go to the toilet at 2pm most days and I can't train myself to do it at night instead, is there something wrong with me?" I would fully expect her to send me away with a lecture about wasting NHS resources. Some of the people on here need to cop onto themselves with their attitudes about other people's bowel movements. Be all weird and screwed up about your own if you like, but don't project that onto other people with normal, healthy attitudes.

@Coughy4u A colleague uses VIPOO or similar, it doesn’t prevent the smell, instead the one toilet we have smells of really cheap lemon spray and poo. It’s a bit like when a teenage boy who hasn’t washed puts on some body spray as he wrongly believes it will cover the smell of his pits.

Luckily I rarely need to go at work. Only once in the last year, I think.

I work in a hospital, but I’m not confined to one ward, so can normally find a quiet toilet to use if needs be. I don’t like doing it, mainly because I do get a bit of stage fright and it’s never very satisfying, but if you have to go you have to go. It doesn’t bother me at all the fact that others do it regularly. Good for them if they’re not shy about it. It’s a natural requirement and not something to be embarrassed about. My DP takes at least one poo at work every day. He’s loves to get paid to poo.

If I ever HAVE to (about twice in 20 years) I go to the loo on a different floor.

@SallyWD, you could take a door wedge when you go there. Push it firmly under the door after you go in, on your side, and no one will be able to interrupt you!

I did train myself to poo earlier when I had an hours commute to work on public transport and I always seemed to need to go about half way through, I started getting up earlier and eating high fibre cereal and drinking strong black coffee to make me go before I left the house.

I'm a GP and it's a myth that most people go once a day at the same time of day. I remember working for a colorectal surgeon who often used to say "it's not the 11th commandment, thou shalt open thy bowels every day after breakfast". For me and many people its normal not to go for a few days then to go several times in a day. I just go to whichever toilet is handy when I need to go and don't care if other people know I've had a poo. So what?

"Overactive bowel" seems to be "more often than usual".
If your usual is 5x/day then it's not overactive bowel, by definition. Even if someone else thinks that would be appalling. Although it would be if you need 30-45 minutes each of those 5x.

I'm disappointed at people who are delighted to be "paid to shit on company time."

I never poo at work. I go first thing in the morning at home and that's it.. you can train yourself to do that.

I call that ‘away from the home’. I can count on fingers of one hand the times I have had no 2 during the day or away from the home. I thank god i am ultra regular.

Will never forget some programme like ‘sas - are you tough enough?’ Where the sas guy absolutely bellowed at some poor recruit who had to take a crap out on exercise ‘are you not organised ha e you not had your shit today you can’t just shit when you feel like it’ etc etc. Felt slightly sorry for poor shitter but fully agreed !!!

(Stomach upsets and digestive conditions excepted obviously)

I hate doing it at work. I left the house the other day at 7:30am and arrived at work at 7:50. And realised that I hadn’t been - like I usually do each morning. So i had to go. Wasn’t pleasant but at least it was quiet there!