That isn't good enough?!

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I entered the Motorway services at 9pm
Because I needed to use the loo. I stopped at Birch services on the m62. This really isn't good enough to me, this is the sight I encountered, walking into the female toilets. A propped open door to the lorry park round the back of the service station. Propped open with a crate, I closed the door because frankly I didn't feel safe using the loo with that door open and I told the service station staff afterwards that I'd closed the door and they told me it was left open so people who park round the back of the service station don't have to walk round the building and can just nip into the Female toilet and go through there into the service station to access the service station facilities.

Aibu to expect men to walk round and not through the ladies toilets to access the gents/ Costa whatever ?

I did shut the door! The staff re propped it open as they said that lorry drivers and people who park round the back should be allowed to access the service station from
The back car park ie the ladies toilets.

That's awful. I think I would have left and used a single accessible toilet or family toilet room instead. I'd have been scared even closing the door (but I'm a huge wimp and am convinced I'm going to be attacked even walking in daylight).

I don't even know how you would raise it further or if its worth the effort just for an automated email response though

Doors shouldn't be propped open anyway, its against H&S, to stop fire speading and also to prevent trips and falls if the lights fail.

I'd report that to head office, unacceptable from both a health and safety and personal safety point of view

No that isn’t good enough

Like a PP said, fire doors shouldn’t be propped open in the first place and that is a massive risk to females in the bathroom

What’s to stop a male from walking in, doing what he wants and legging it back out? No one would have seen him

I would report that. Some idiot with half a brain probably got asked if it’s ok to do for the lorry drivers and said yes.

I bet it’s not monitored by CCTV like the front doors will be, in the event of an incident either.

Completely out of order from a safety perspective, and I would also report to head office.

No that's really not appropriate. They need to work out another route.

No, that's not good enough, and I would write to the service station manager and copy the company management in.

Like a PP says, if someone using the back car park is minded to harm women using the toilets, it's providing an easy route to them doing so undetected.

It's also a fire door being propped open. But I think what also annoys me about this, from a personal bug bear point of view is that, in normal times, when I actually go out and about and use service stations quite a lot, is that the womens toilets are always a longer walk away than the mens.

But when we have men being slightly inconvenienced by a bit of a walk, because lets face it, 98%+? of lorry drivers are men, women are pushed out of the way to make their life easier.

It's also the fact that it is routinely propped open, so some loner in a truck could sit there and watch that door and be ready to attack with all his rape and murder equipment ready to go. Sometimes I send my kids into the loo alone and wait outside the door with the baby for them. I'd assume they'd be ok alone in the women's toilet. Like this they could even wander off out of the wrong door. It's completely unacceptable.

Oh god yes!

I let my dd go into the bathroom alone under the assumption it’s a one way in and out

I let my dd go into the bathroom alone under the assumption it’s a one way in and out
I was thinking exactly this. Can't believe anyone would think that acceptable

Unreal! Definitely report this

@TheGracefulwhale

That's awful. I think I would have left and used a single accessible toilet or family toilet room instead. I'd have been scared even closing the door (but I'm a huge wimp and am convinced I'm going to be attacked even walking in daylight).

I don't even know how you would raise it further or if its worth the effort just for an automated email response though

You're not a wimp. It happens.

I agree that is out of order, it's always female spaces isn't it.

Another scenario...small child runs away from parent into car park.

Please report it, as high up their management chain as you can get so someone who actually understands the risk they're also putting themselves at sees it. Sadly that's probably more likely to motivate them than the risk they're putting women at. Social media too?

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

Another scenario...small child runs away from parent into car park.

This was what I thought. A child could run away through there. Or heaven forbid get taken.

Bloody hell! Are the staff totally incompetent?

Of course that’s not OK, on many levels.

Complain!

Jesus the ladies toilet is a not bloody corridor. This is scary, the dangers posed to women and children in that toilet are horrific as pop's have said - attack, children running into a car park, young girls using the toilet alone. Raise it as high as you can go and put it on social media too so they are less likely to ignore it. This needs to be a safety issue raised company wide. It is simply not acceptable and whoever has said it's ok hasn't thought it through and is not only leaving women vulnerable but the company liable too.

This is absolutely shocking for numerous reasons. Please complain!

Not acceptable.
Also wonder if it isn’t the ‘I’m nipping out for a smoke’ route, so y’know that’s ok then

Totally wrong for all the reasons pointed out above

Definitely report it.