Co-Worker Vent

[ducklite]

Ugh!

One of my co-workers is driving me to distraction as far as the ladies room goes. She uses the last of the TP and won't change the roll, if she has to she'll open a new roll and leave it on top of the empty roll. Same thing with paper towels.

She'll have a smelly visit to the bathroom and not use the air freshener--I bought a can to leave in there because this women must have some sort of digestive disorder.

She somehow managed to get liquid hand soap all over the floor today, and I almost went flying when I walked in. (Yes, I know it was her, as I walked in after her, and had been the last person in before her as I was in the process of cleaning the fridge and dumped samething yucky in the toilet--and her kitchen messes are another post.) At least she actually washed her hands--there have been many times she hasn't.

Anyone else have a co-worker like this?

Anne

 

[doxdogy]

One that does that no. One that drives me to distraction

 

[babiesX2]

The unit I used to work on had a bathroom in the employee breakroom. One of our co-workers had to be written up because she would come in there while people were trying to eat and stink up the bathroom.

 

[MushyMushy]

I have a husband that does it. Does that count?

 

[babiesX2]

When I worked nights, there was a very messy CNA. She was a young girl and very sweet, but she would make these huge messes on the desk. There would be half eaten food, empty soda cans, cups of ice, crumpled up newspapers, just random trash. I'm very easy going and I leave people alone (especially at work), but even I would have to ask her to clean up her area. I learned to ask her before the other nurses had to because they would be mean to her.

 

[jcsbama]

YES. We only have 9 employees and share a unisex bathroom that is disgusting. I'm the office manager and have sent out several emails over time asking people to replace the last of the toilet paper, paper towels, etc. Yesterday I walked in and someone had removed the empty rolls from the latches, but left them open for the next person to put on new rolls. I was so ticked off. How hard can it be to put on new tp rolls, open a roll of paper towels and just set the roll on the shelf. I work with the laziest people ever. I won't even go into my rant about the trash that has crawled half way up the wall that nobody will take out to the street. We don't have a cleaning crew so it's up to everyone to help keep things presentable (yea right). I'm currently looking for a new job. I swear when I leave here nobody will have a clean butt because they all refuse to replace the toilet paper.

 

[hlbtimes2]

I work with all men. Yes, I'm the lone woman. There are about 12 of us. We have 2 bathrooms. The womans in the nicer of the two. It has a regular door, toilet and sink. the mens room is a larger room, with a stall door/toilet, urinal and no sink. They have to use the sink between the mens and womens room. Anyway, they think its ok to use the womens room. I hate that I have to wait to use the bathroom when I'm the only women here- it should always be available to me! Its always dirty. Its to the point I refuse to clean it. I dont pee down the front of the toilet, and I'm not wiping it up.

Anyway, yesterday I noticed the paper was out. We normally keep it in a cupboard outside the bathrooms. I looked under the sink to see if maybe there was a roll in there I could use. I hadnt went yet, but was in there with the door closed. Anyway, imagine my surprise when I found two ** XXX magazines ** under the sink! Its the womens bathroom in a place of work. Why on earth would anyone think that is ok?

 

[goofie4goofy]

Well being a slob and inconsiderate is not against the law. You can teach her a lesson. I would remove all the TP and papertowels from the bathroom. I would give everyone else in the office their own personal roll and paper towels. How will she feel when there is no "square to spare"?

As far as the smell, which is horrible, I would put a note on the bathroom mirror asking the "ladies" to please be considerate and spray after making poopie doops You can print it on a computer so it looks official and make sure you ahve the kind of spray that removes odors, not makes it smell like flowers (I think I would rather smell the poops).

The soap thing is just a real slob thing. I don't know what to do about that. I would do some pretty gross things back to her. I would replace the soap in the dispenser with maple syrup, letting everyone else know so they don;t use it

Is she well liked or a nice person or is this behavior a reflection of her personality?

 

[OK!]

A former coworker of mine used to, ahem, do #2 and not flush afterward. The custodial employees played detective until they found out who it was and then came to me, since I was the night supervisor, to do something about it. I'm non-confrontational as it is, let alone about something personal and embarrassing like that; thankfully, my boss heard about the situation and stepped in so I didn't have to.

At another job, there was a guy who used to go into the bathroom to eat. Not in a stall; he'd (apparently) just hang out by the sinks, eating his sandwich. Since I'm not a man, I didn't have to deal with his bathroom behavior, but unfortunately I had to listen to him make disgusting noises at his desk all day long. He had some kind of respiratory thing and I know he couldn't help it, but man, it got gross after a while.

 

[ead79]

At another job, there was a guy who used to go into the bathroom to eat. Not in a stall; he'd (apparently) just hang out by the sinks, eating his sandwich

OK, you have me dying laughing with that one! What must some people be thinking!

I have my own odd bathroom situation at work. We have one bathroom that is marked "unisex." It has a door that locks, then inside the bathroom there are two stalls with doors. One of them has a urinal inside and one has a regular toilet. Well, when the girls go in there we all lock the main outside door. When our boss (a man) comes up and finds the door locked, he gets angry. He asked one of my coworkers what she was doing in there, LOL! He insists that since it's marked "unisex" and has 2 stalls, that it's OK for a man and a woman to be in there at the same time. All I can saw is EWWWW!

 

[ducklite]

Is she well liked or a nice person or is this behavior a reflection of her personality?

Well, remember the kitchen mess I was cleaning up in the first post? It was mostly her mess.

I didn't even mention the 47 staples I picked up by the copy machine that she had used the staple remover and just let them drop to the floor. (yes, I counted, when you're removing staples from the carpet there's not much else to do...)

Frankly, she's not particularly liked around the place. She's loud and obnoxious, and wears too much perfume. In fact I nicely told her that she really needs to wear less perfume because it's very strong, and it's really bothering my asthma. She didn't take the hint, now she just doesn't come into my office, but you can still smell her coming ten feet before she gets to you.

The problem is that her boss is one of these just oblivious people who is very non-confrontational. My boss would get in her face about it, but he's only in the office once a quarter for a couple days, the rest of the time he's in the field.

Anne

 

[Michie]

I have my own bathroom at my office and I keep it locked.

I did have a problem with this one agent, she would eat something, you know something smelly, with a bunch of onions or whatnot, and she would just leave her trash in the office and stink up the whole place. Then I was having problems witha bunch of agents, not realizing a trashcan was full and just keep piling stuff in it. So I confiscated all of the trash cans for a week I dont have problems any more with that.

Some people are just slobs. Why dont you leave signs, like "spray after visiting the powder room and that means you" etc?

 

[Stacerita]

ICK! And I thought some of my coworkers were bad. And the guy who eats in the bathroom.....thats just nasty!

 

[ducklite]

This morning I got here and there was white powdery stuff all over the carpet throughout the entire place, including my office. I asked the girl in the office next to me what the heck was all over the floors, and she tells me that the crazy co-worker decided something smelled in the kitchen--uh yeah, the science project she's ahd fermenting in teh fridge for three weeks--and proceeds to spread half a can of carpet fresh all over the office.

I just got done tossing anthing that was growing mold into the garbage and taking it to the dumpster. She's going to have a fit when she sees I dumped her Tupperware. If I could see MOLD growing in it, yes, it got dumped. Duh.

Anne

 

[SplshMtn99]

The unit I used to work on had a bathroom in the employee breakroom. One of our co-workers had to be written up because she would come in there while people were trying to eat and stink up the bathroom.

LOL, ok this struck me as odd.
She got written up for stinking up the bathroom?

Heck, even if she used spray, that would have ruined my lunch too.

If the bathrooms were located in the breakroom, I think I would be eating somewhere else daily....like at the park.

 

[Shugardrawers]

The unit I used to work on had a bathroom in the employee breakroom. One of our co-workers had to be written up because she would come in there while people were trying to eat and stink up the bathroom.

There has to be something more to the story that I'm missing. How can you write someone up for pooping in the bathroom???? Where else was she supposed to have done it? Was she expected to hold it until she got home? That can't be healthy. Was there another bathroom available and she was just too lazy to walk to it? Maybe she couldn't make it there? I feel sorry for her!

 

[SC Minnie]

As for the smelly- we had people not using the manual spray either so the management had auto spray things put in.

Another office worked in before I came there everyone had their own roll of TP at their desk and had to take it with them to potty.

 

[lindakmonty]

wow..what stories!! Well thankfully I'm now the only female too There are 4 bathrooms and one is MINE.... all for me!! There are about 70 guys in and out. We did have about 5 other women but they've all been laid off for a few years!!! We had this receptionist that would leave drops of blood on the seat!!! EWWWWWW....we told the boss about this and they made US talk to her!!! Thankfully she quit soon after!

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

At my old job the backroom included the office, the breakroom, and the employee bathroom. In the five years I was there, we had 3 male employees, all the rest were female. You would have thought that backroom and bathroom would be spotless. HECK NO! The bathroom was absolutely disgusting. No one would take out the trash or clean up after themselves. There was a toilet brush and a plunger right next to the toilet. There was even at least 3 bottles of air freshener in there. There was also an endless supply of toilet paper and paper towels, yet they still refused to keep it clean. The sadder thought, the customer bathroom was always spotless.

Ducklite: I can sympathise about moldy tupperware. The breakroom used to have a normal size fridge. But the girls would leave open cans of soda in their for weeks, containers of food, and whatever else. The managers "punished" us and got rid of the large fridge and gave us a small dorm sized one. Then every night the managers would go through the fridge and throw out anything that wasn't sealed or something you could keep around for a few days.

Does your office have a microwave? Have you ever seen what one could look like after an explosion of who-knows-what hasn't been cleaned for weeks?

 

[ducklite]

Does your office have a microwave? Have you ever seen what one could look like after an explosion of who-knows-what hasn't been cleaned for weeks?

Our CFO for some reason is super anal-retentive about cleaning that. Of course he eats three meals a day here and uses it more than anyone, so...

Anne