Page 13 | Tradespeople using the loo

JeanneDoe · 2021-07-14T08:53:31+00:00

Want to canvas opinions here. We had a man over to service our burglar alarm. It’s an annual service provided by the alarm company. I’m WFH and my home office is above the downstairs loo. Heard the alarm guy walking around checking out the alarm points around the house. Then heard him in the bathroom. Didn’t think there was a motion sensor in there. He was in there for quite a while and then I heard a toilet flush. Turns out a rather pungent bowel movement was had. I am a bit pissed off. I know I’m unreasonable (and a bit precious) that I hate people that don’t live in my house taking a dump in my house. But AIBU that he should have at least asked me if he could use our bathroom?

Thehop · 14/07/2021 22:34

I had someone block my toilet with a huge turd once. I was furious.

PeaceLily2000 · 14/07/2021 22:34

@mariomushroom

I would really love to know what people who never poo outside of their own homes (and frown upon others who do) would do if they ever need to go when they’re not at home. Assuming they always create delicate rose-smelling poos at 7.30am every day while in their own toilets? Having to use a public loo must surely have happened to us all, we’re human beings. Having a stinky poo in the toilet is of course not ideal, but the workman needed to go. Maybe in the past he’s been told no when he asked to go, and then what would he have to do? Drive off to find a Costa or a Tesco to use the loos? Not very pleasant for anyone

Well yes, go at home at 7.30am; problem solved. I lose sympathy with the 'they might be ill' argument when it's like clockwork at 9.01am every morning and the workman is in the only loo in the house for half hour plus! Just get up earlier, go in your own home, and stop wasting all my bog roll!!

DrSbaitso · 14/07/2021 22:41

Er, and what if he doesn't need a shit at 7.30 but does at 9, when you've contracted him to arrive?

Clearly you need to discuss this very important matter with all tradesmen before setting a time and ensure they are under strict instructions to defecate before arrival. It is the only reasonable solution.

Also, it's not March 2020. Light beckons beyond the dark days of the great toilet paper shortage.

mariomushroom · 14/07/2021 22:45

But not everyone has lives where they can nip back home for a poo, and not everyone ‘goes’ at the same time every day?

That sounds awful with your workman mind, if it is every day at the same time. It would be good if he could go before he arrived at your house.

PeaceLily2000 · 14/07/2021 22:52

@DrSbaitso

Er, and what if he doesn't need a shit at 7.30 but does at 9, when you've contracted him to arrive?

Clearly you need to discuss this very important matter with all tradesmen before setting a time and ensure they are under strict instructions to defecate before arrival. It is the only reasonable solution.

Also, it's not March 2020. Light beckons beyond the dark days of the great toilet paper shortage.

I wouldn't rock up to work and immediately go off for a poo. It is expected that I am ready for the day before arriving and turn up ready to do my job. I think that's a reasonable request.

mariomushroom · 14/07/2021 22:55

You can’t request someone not poo. He’s not pooing for fun, he’s acting on a bodily urge. I had to go for a wee on arrival at work the other day - should I not have? It’s annoying and inconvenient to have a shitting workman but it’s unlikely he’s doing it for a laugh

onlyhereforthecake · 14/07/2021 23:00

[quote FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop]@mariomushroom I've asked but had no answer as to how on Earth people hold poo in?![/quote]

if you can't, you might want to have a chat with your GP, it really is not normal.

FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop · 14/07/2021 23:00

I wouldn't rock up to work and immediately go off for a poo. It is expected that I am ready for the day before arriving and turn up ready to do my job.
I think that's a reasonable request.

@PeaceLily2000 how do you hold a poo in? What kind of weird place do you work that doesn't like you going to the toilet what difference does it make if you go at 9am or 9.10am after make a bum clenching "I'M HERE" announcement?

FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop · 14/07/2021 23:01

@onlyhereforthecake well actually I think you'll find it's YOU who needs to make a AGP Appointment for
A. health anxiety
B. Forced constipation

If I need to go I need to go. I wouldn't hold it in for a moment because it's unhealthy and weird!

Then again I'm not ashamed of having a poo lien some where, soooo...

FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop · 14/07/2021 23:03

Also lol at "Have a poo at 7.30am". What if you don't need one then?!

Threads like these make me wonder if I'm the one doing it wrong all along. With my body, I need a poo when my body tells me and I go for one, I am unable to hold it in for 7 hours.

I'm wondering with everyone else is it a case where you poo/hold it in on command? Because I can't think how else people just think "I'll have a poo at 7.30am"

onlyhereforthecake · 14/07/2021 23:07

FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop
I am good, no need to be goady

I pity you if you think it's normal to be unable to go anywhere for a few hours without a toilet, if you can't commute and be stuck in a train for a couple of hours, if you have never travelled, can't visit a friend without expecting to use the loo, cannot hold a job unless you can drop everything at any moment, cannot be stuck on a traffic jam somewhere,. It's beyond weird.

It's completely unrealistic, not the experience any normal personal person and must be exhausting to have so little control over your body.

ElephantOfRisk · 14/07/2021 23:10

There are poos and poos though, sometimes you get a vague notion and if you waited 10 minutes you might need to go more or maybe not. Other times your body decides it needs to go and there isn't really a lot of control about being able to hold it.

Also you can end up constipated if you ignore it for too long. My preference generally is to poo at home but if you need to go when at work or whatever, sometimes that's just the way it is.

I once worked in a bit of the building that had 2 complete cubicles (whole toilet with sink etc enclosed in a wee room) for women and 2 for men. on the floor there were about 4 women and 20 men, some days people worked from home so less staff in. I would regularly go to the loo and find both cubicles occupied even though i might be the only woman or one of 2 in that day. So I started paying attention and noticed that half the building loved these more private loos compared to the row of cubicle type so they become the in place for poos. The lift would arrive every few minutes with new loo customers. Unfortunately we were in a basement with no window so they were invariably always stinking of poo or stinking of poo and perfume...

People gotta go though and if i had to do a poo at work i think i'd prefer the privacy of those loos too.

HalzTangz · 14/07/2021 23:13

I find it bizarre that you don't like people using the toilet. If he lefts skid marks, sure be annoyed. If he left it clean why stress over it.

mariomushroom · 14/07/2021 23:13

“if you can't, you might want to have a chat with your GP, it really is not normal.”

No doctor is going to tell you it’s normal to have to hold your poo in. If a workman arrives at 9am and needs a poo at quarter past, what would you consider an acceptable length of time for him to hold it in for? Obviously if you can’t control it that’s different, but if you’re a tradesman and you need a poo, and you’re in a house with a toilet….you’re going to have to to poo there. Different things can affect it as well - diet, hormones, how much you’ve had to drink….the ability to poo at convenient times/places would be great but it’s just not real life.

DrSbaitso · 14/07/2021 23:14

I wouldn't rock up to work and immediately go off for a poo. It is expected that I am ready for the day before arriving and turn up ready to do my job. I think that's a reasonable request.

If it's so reasonable, please tell all tradesmen about it and how and when you expect them to take a shit. And please report back.

Yesitsbess · 14/07/2021 23:14

@onlyhereforthecake

I've done a 15 hour flight without a poo, I wouldn't dream of working for a customer for 7 hours without a wee. I feel the suggestion here is I have to ask to use the loo and justify to the customer/client that I will be using it for fluids only? That's nucking futs.

Please name another workplace where you can be excluded from using a toilet for between 4-10 hours and it be considered entirely reasonable. I'll wait.

FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop · 14/07/2021 23:19

I pity you if you think it's normal to be unable to go anywhere for a few hours without a toilet, if you can't commute and be stuck in a train for a couple of hours, if you have never travelled, can't visit a friend without expecting to use the loo, cannot hold a job unless you can drop everything at any moment, cannot be stuck on a traffic jam somewhere,. It's beyond weird.

What exactly do you pity?? Because, aside from the fact that all the places you mention have toilets, I'm neither embarrassed nor distressed about having a poo in a toilet, anywhere. So what aspect do you pity exactly? I never feel the need to 'hold it in', I just go.

I actually pity you for having not enough confidence to carry out a basic function that literally everyone else in the world carries out, because of some weird repressed idea that it's wrong/disgusting. Not THAT is worth pitying.

It's completely unrealistic, not the experience any normal personal person and must be exhausting to have so little control over your body.

No it is not exhausting to go for a poo 😂 I don't need or want "control over my body" - because I'm 100% having a poo in any toilet I happen to pass.

Not to mention it's really unhealthy and bad for you to hold a poo in!

FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop · 14/07/2021 23:20

*100% happy

PeaceLily2000 · 14/07/2021 23:20

@FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop

Also lol at "Have a poo at 7.30am". What if you don't need one then?!

Threads like these make me wonder if I'm the one doing it wrong all along. With my body, I need a poo when my body tells me and I go for one, I am unable to hold it in for 7 hours.

I'm wondering with everyone else is it a case where you poo/hold it in on command? Because I can't think how else people just think "I'll have a poo at 7.30am"

Well yeah, it's less 'on command' and more a routine. I go once a day, in the morning, at home. I didn't think that was such a weird concept but I'm learning a lot!

HPLikecraft · 14/07/2021 23:22

I find it bizarre that you don't like people using the toilet

It wasn’t just people though, was it? It was tradespeople!

TheKeatingFive · 14/07/2021 23:24

I go once a day, in the morning, at home. I didn't think that was such a weird concept but I'm learning a lot!

The weird thing is expecting everyone to poo exactly like you do. That’s batshit.

FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop · 14/07/2021 23:24

@PeaceLily2000 but not everyone is the same. I don't eat at set times and sometimes skip meals, so I don't have a set "time" for pooing. I wouldn't know how to control this.

So lots of people don't - and what if a workman's morning poo just happens to be at 9am anyway?!

onlyhereforthecake · 14/07/2021 23:24

FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop

what are you talking about with your "confidence" nonsense?

Commuter trains routinely don't have toilets, neither are the middle of a traffic jam on the motorway, ski slopes, many beach, forest, countryside...

Locals were horrified by the amount of anti-social animals pooping everywhere during the lockdown and messing up beaches, front laws etc... I can see in which camp some posters belong to. Very grim.

FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop · 14/07/2021 23:25

@PeaceLily2000 but not everyone is the same. I don't eat at set times and sometimes skip meals, so I don't have a set "time" for pooing. I wouldn't know how to control this.

So lots of people don't - and what if a workman's morning poo just happens to be at 9am anyway?!

FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop · 14/07/2021 23:28

@onlyhereforthecake I am talking about you, for some reason to do with associating poo with being unacceptable/disgusting, don't have the confidence to poo in any toilet but your own. It's sad, IMO.

I don't commute, or ski and rarely get stuck in traffic jams I don't fret over stuff like this one bit.

"Animals" defecating was linked to absolutely no public toilets being open due to COVID. I doubt people did this for fun.

Besides, by your own admission, it's not just about being caught short, for some reason you won't even poo at a friend's house! So weird!

But as an ex-nurse I pinky promise you that it's NOT normal or healthy to hold your poo in. Maybe try more fibre in your diet?