Sign I want on the toilet door at work!

[Breadcat24]

I really want this sign on the doors of the toilets at work!
I am getting fed up of going to use the toilets and waiting for ages outside while I can hear someone having a conversation on their phone inside.
These are accessible toilets and my arthritis makes it painful for me to walk 2 flights of stairs to the next toilets so this makes me grumpy. There are plenty of spaces to sit and make a private call.
Also I think if they are actually (ahem) using the toilet at the same time as their call then that is not very nice.

So why not just print it out and stick it on the door?

Then order it & put it on the door.

aside from making people wait to use the toilet, it's just disgusting

Why haven’t you knocked on the door and told them there is queue waiting?

having a conversation in the loo is weird imo and unhygienic

Agree. It’s gross anyway.

To answer- we are not allowed to put up signage.

• I did knock once after waiting a considerable while and an irate lady came out and said that she had had to wait before using the toilet. Which made no sense or explanation of her phone usage in there to me

YANBU what sort of grim people use the phone in the loo? Eeuw.

YANBU. I was in a cubicle in the loos in Tesco one day, and a lady walked in chatting to someone on loudspeaker on her mobile. I waited a moment to see if she was just finishing up the call before using the loo, but no - she continued the full conversation with her phone on the floor of the cubicle! I said "Excuse me, would you mind finishing your call outside of the toilets please?" And she got really shirty with me! I replied to say that I found it rude and intrusive, but she could not have given a monkeys! I think some people are just weird.

I have waited so long outside the disabled toilet in my local Costa's that I swear the person in there is having a nap.

I once put up a sign (then chickened out and took it down after a day) to say that the disabled toilet was not...
a. a changing room
b. a telephone booth
c. an executive bathroom
I was fed up with wheeling around in my wheelchair from my desk to wait and listen to telephone conversations, or watch people come out with bags of clothes or management using it as their private bathroom. Each person locking eyes and sheepishly apologising. It made me look like a slacker; a five-minute trip to the loo took 15 mins.

Happened in a pub recently 3 of us waiting outside while a woman chatted to her boyfriend on speaker. Someone knocked on the door and she had the cheek to moan to him!

I don’t get why people are grossed out? It’s not like the other person can see them or is being touched by them.

Because toilet cubicles are not renowned for been particularly clean.
You touch door handles/ locks , seats , yourself then your phone which you put against your face .

Good for you

i don’t understand why these conversations are so important. Do they actually perform bodily functions whilst talking which is even weirder

How many people are using their phones in the toilet at your work?! Surely it can't be that many

@BallerinaRadio I work at a university- so unfortunately lots

This seems to be getting more common doesn't it? (You - lady in cubicle next to me yesterday asking if your mate wanted any shopping and saying you'd see if you could find the wrapping paper they wanted for them). I don't understand the mentality at all, but it does explain why mobiles are generally so filthy.

From my personal experience of being in a public loo cubicle and the woman next to me having a conversation on loudspeaker, with her mobile phone on the floor (where I could see it from my seated position on the loo, no less!) I was not necessarily "grossed out", I just felt it was an invasion of privacy. When you're using the toilet, you don't expect the sounds of whatever you're doing to be broadcast to a total stranger (and whoever else might be listening on the other end of the call - perhaps they also had their phone on loudspeaker on the floor of the loos at London Paddington, who knows!). Like I said, I found it intrusive and rude.

In terms of being "grossed out" though, despite the fact that most people using their mobile phone in the toilets will wash their hands after doing so, few of them will think to give their phone even a cursory clean with a disinfectant wipe, negating their handwashing. The thought of that grosses me out a bit!

Missing the point completely but.... Putting a phone down on any surface in a public toilet is just rank. 😱
Let alone the floor.

When you touch any surface in a bathroom you are touching excrement and urine. When you flush the toilet with the lid up - all those particles spread through the space.

Do you still want to take your phone in there ?

I work in a warehouse and some people, mostly young spend more time in the toilets then at work! And they are definitely going to use their mobile not the facilities. There is more than one cubicle but it's a real pain when you're working with someone and they keep disappearing.

This used to happen in a place I worked at years ago. They weren’t singular toilets, but rows of cubicals but people would still go in there to have phonecalls? I’m assuming because they’d want to talk on phone during shift and pretend to be on the toilet. Most of the time I’d wait until they were finished but a few times when I had really bad early pregnancy sickness I couldn’t wait so I’d just very violently throw up whilst they were on the phone and they’d leave pretty quickly 🙃😂

Looks like some arse has started vaping in there now. Went in today and it was like being beaten up by a strawberry