double stall bathrooms.. STUPIDEST idea EVER.

so i am finally back to work at a BORING accounts payable job. i am already looking for a new job. been there for 6 days now and probably have more hours logged on the toilet than i do on paying bills! i HATE double stall bathrooms. i've already had people come in when i am stuck in there. i was stuck in there for 15 minutes one day. then after 5 minutes, i was in there another 10 minutes. 10 minutes later, another 5 minutes. so embarrassing!!!! i do the drop and flush like 4 times and the worst part is i can hear people in the bathroom at my desk which, i am sure some other people can hear all bathroom antics as well. one time i was in there i heard someone come in and let loose and it made me feel a little better, as sick as that sounds! bu personally, i like to poop alone though. yeah hea, with nobody else!

anyways, i have a sbft scheduled next month. it will decide if i am going to be referred to a surgeon or not. at this point, it's welcomed. i don't want to live like this anymore. one thing i am worried about is the possibility of having my ilececal valve removed and the urgent d never goes away. i don't think i could handle it!!

hope you are all well :)

Look on the bright side, it is a lot less likely you will be stuck outside waiting for someone else to finish while you are having an emergency!! And, single stalls stress me out even worse when I am in there and somone knocks and I know they are just waiting outside for me to finish up. Then I have to walk out and look at them and mutter something. At least with a double you can wait until the person who comes in leaves. Also, just because you pay attention to bathroom noise doesn't mean every one else is also. I doubt anyone else really even notices.

Give your job a little more time. My gut always acts up when I start a new job. Then when I feel more comfortable there it calms back down.

I spend a TON of time in the bath rooms at work, we have multiple stall rooms. One thing that I have notice and really don't like is that someone will check your door to see if someone is in there and it's locked and then they just kind of linger out side your stall staring right at you through the crack. They probably aren't really looking at you but my theory is if I can see them, they can see me.

Oh by the way, I am with Fitzy on this one. I prefer more stalls to be available than just one. I am sure I would have severe anxiety if I new someone was just outside waiting for the BR. I can't go #2 if someone is in the BR, but as soon as they leave, out it comes.

Wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have to worry about these things??? I wonder if there is a medical term for "people with public bathroom phobia"? It's all so embarrassing.

Hey . . . I know this wouldn't be possible in a lot of work places . . . but when I worked, I used to use the bathroom downstairs or upstairs (if you aren't urgent) so it was people I didn't know and didn't work closely with. It did help some with the phobia. Blessings!

Here we have 10 floors worth of pretty big bathrooms. There are at least 7 stalls in each 2 of which are handicapped. For a while, we were the only people using this floor, so I would have the bathroom to myself all the time and for the whole time usually. It was great.

Now, we have more people and there’s almost always someone else in there with me so I usually just sit and wait and try to make noise during other people’s flushing or sink use. It works. I think there are a lot more people that poo at work than most realize, because frequently I walk into the bathroom and it smells and I know it wasn’t me!

I like making noise in a washroom then they all leave LOL...Then i got the bathroom to myself sanctuary ahhhhh.. Don't worry about it dear, i don't think anybody in this world can have a crap without making any noise in the washroom..

I'm really good about using the "curtesy flush."

I had one woman at work who always came in the washroom to check her makeup first thing in the morning comment that she "wishes she could be as regular as me" -lol. That's the only time I saw her throughout the day. Goes to show you eh?

Bev

My daughter's idea of a joke is : when we go for coffee at starbucks and I have to run to the bathroom after my drink...she follows behind me and jiggles the door knob to make me thing there is someone impatiently waiting for the bathroom...in the meantime, I'm sitting there, "having a bird", and yelling... " Just a minute please, I'll be done in just a minute"''''She thinks its just a hoot! I come out to her up to no good, grinning from ear to ear , face.... I'm so flustered I want to strangle her...but it always makes me laugh in the end. ! After all she did come by that quirky sense of humor honestly!

I'm so glad I'm not the only one that has public bathroom "phobia". I hate using public bathrooms, I'm always scared coworkers will ask what is wrong with me if they are in the bathroom with me.

Have you heard of "Just A Drop" ? Put a couple of drops of this stuff in the toilet before you "go" and it covers almost all of the smell.
It's available at any pharmacy here in Canada.

http://www.justadrop.net/