Is it seen to BU to go to the toilet at work?

[KittySocks]

Posting here for traffic. In the office this morning, there were 2 members of my team having a moan. Essentially, someone had gone to the toilet and had sprayed some of the provided air freshener. Staff member moans that the staff member in question should have waited until they got home before they "stink out the work toilets".

Staff members in question are mid 20s. It started a stupid debate in the office and basically, the older generation see no issue with going to the toilets at work. Younger generation claim they would be mortified and state they would not poop at work!

Is it a generational thing then? I'm of the mindset, if you have to go, you have to go!

YABU - Get a grip - poop away
YANBU - Gross! Hold it in until you get home!

I REALLY don’t want to poo at work but with IBS I have no choice sometimes.

I never used to poo at work as I was in a department that it would be very obvious if I had to go for more than a couple of minutes but now I'm on a different department i can leisurely poo on the clock and happily do so

Then there are people who can't flush after doing either 1s or 2s. This is both at work and at other places - shopping centres, supermarkets, leisure places, restaurants etc. I knew the concept of flushing after using the loo when I was 3.

I have done a no2 in a shopping centre loo and the flush didn't work! Had to make sure that there was nobody about, to sneak out of the cubicle. I put a few sheets on top to hide it.

I bet some of those people who refuse to do no2s in work or public had experience what I endured above.

Honestly, no one is curling out a massive jobbie on the boss’s desk. It’s in the privacy of a cubicle and what loos are for. It’s this actually an issue for people?

You mean this happened as a matter of routine?

That’s someone with a vendetta!

I personally can’t, except in the most dire of situations. I am no less human than anyone else, though, and some people go immediately after lunch. Where I used to work, people were reminds of the “courtesy flush”- which means flush a couple of times, so nothing sits and smells up the room.

For years and years I never pooed at work. I never pooed in the school toilets-ever. There again I’m old enough to remember Izal (?) toilet paper which would put anyone off going. Plus the school toilets always felt unsafe. Huge gaps at both the top and bottom of the door and dodgy locks.
I do go now though if I need to.

I'll poo anywhere me. I'm not fussy.

It's not whether you go at work, it's how you ensure the toilet is clean, and if needs be, flush a second time.

I like my own toilet more, but if I have to go, I go, that is the purpose of have a toilet.

We got a sentence in my family when the stink happens and you see someone waiting to use the toilet. "I wouldn't go in it, if I were you", it works well because most of the time the answers is a laugh and something like "don't worry I try to hold my breath"

Our school loos had those heavy old fashioned wooden seats with the gap at the front - hated them. I’m also old enough to remember San Izal toilet paper. It was hard - almost crispy - and it smelled of disinfectant !!

If you need to go, you need to go. Doing a double / courtesy flush is a good strategy.

We have an accessible loo near our base, which is rarely used and perfect for a poo in work hours.

I know this was 8 years ago, but the colleague is the one who should feel mortified for being so bloody immature!

Pisses me off because people like that are why others get a complex about it
It's a normal body function

Im talking about me ....
But why wouldnt i give a lift to a colleague im sure no one would get into someone elses car if they thought they were about to shit themselves

One of the most disgusting loos I’ve ever seen was the public disabled toilet in our local hospital. Toilet unflushed and filthy, bins overflowing, paper towels everywhere and soaking wet floor.

Now that really DOES exceed the limits!!!!

Forgot to say, I'm sitting not very close to the bathroom but if the stink is very big I can smell it before the person goes out. It is not the first time someone ask where is Mr/Ms so and so and I smirk and reply taking a shit.

Yep. That would probably be viewed as abusive these days.

I mean you are getting paid to poop so poop away!! No way would I be able to hold it in with my IBS ass, I have about 2 mins to find a toilet! I usually go a little further away and spray after.

This....No one surely would poo at work through choice....But if one HAS to, well that's what work lavatories are for.

Wonder if they still have the post of Royal Wiper !!

That's really deeply childish.
If one has a stomach upset, one cannot help but go.

Someone as inane as to put poo emojis on a message obviously is stuck in childhood where they find poo funny.

Everyone needs to poo, even the Queen {as they used to say}.

I work in a predominately male office and honestly the amount of skid marks! I worry for them
If I need to poo at work, I poo at work but I make sure the toilet is clean afterwards (also not a big fan of airfreshner so don't bother I'm sure next user can tell but I don't think my poos smell particularly bad?)

In my 40s, happy to go to the loo at work for whatever reason necessary. I had no idea that anyone else felt any differently- how strange!