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Forum consensus, employee who refuses to close bathroom door .

Years ago, we had an employee that built a little nest out of toilet paper around the toilet bowl, then peed all over the place - the nest, the floor, the back of the toilet. We had a multi-stall men's bathroom and only figured it out by process of (ahem) elimination, ruling employees out one by one by checking the room after they walked out. The guy had mental problems, and ended up getting fired for faking signatures on purchase orders.
 
I roll my eyes when someone out of school for more than 10 years has their GPA on the resume, but early out of school I think that it's fine.
 
This is one of those behaviors that is so "off" I almost want to assume there's an ulterior motive, although I couldn't really hazard a guess as to what it could be. This is not the kind of faux pas one just makes accidently once, much less repeatedly.
My speculation would be some sort of scam where getting fired for some non-work-related conduct is preferable to being fired for something like just not showing up. I have no idea what scam that might be but, as you say, the behavior is very weird, especially after being warned about it. Perhaps he'll claim claustrophobia at some point?
 
For me, after repeated warnings, I would let the person go. I guess you can't do that due to some union stuff. Have you contacted a union rep?
 
I'd say this person is a control freak, who does this because it makes everyone else uncomfortable and angry.

Personally, I'd fire them.
 
First world/sjw/never been in a communal toilet situation? Never ever even seen a two-holer? None of you guys old enough to remember the looong troughs? Or the rows of Navy toilets built over a flowing "channel" of water? (light a hand full of TP on fire at the uphill end and drop it in, burn the hair off of everybody's asses on it's way down stream)

What's the difference between the OP and the common urinals with no or partial partitions?
 
First world/sjw/never been in a communal toilet situation? Never ever even seen a two-holer? None of you guys old enough to remember the looong troughs? Or the rows of Navy toilets built over a flowing "channel" of water? (light a hand full of TP on fire at the uphill end and drop it in, burn the hair off of everybody's asses on it's way down stream)

What's the difference between the OP and the common urinals with no or partial partitions?

I'm sorry I have to explain this to you. Those toilets are designed that way, the bathroom is made to used in the way those people are using them.

The bathroom being referenced isn't designed to be used that way, and it's obviously making people uncomfortable. I go to the Sprint Car races up here and they have a trough. It's not a shock to me, but if I went into a private bathroom and some douche nozzle was standing with the door wide open, taking a piss, in an open stall bathroom I'd ask him what the **** he was doing. The same way I'd ask someone shaving their face with a ******* butter knife. That's not its designed purpose.
 
I'm sorry I have to explain this to you. Those toilets are designed that way, the bathroom is made to used in the way those people are using them.

The bathroom being referenced isn't designed to be used that way, and it's obviously making people uncomfortable. I go to the Sprint Car races up here and they have a trough. It's not a shock to me, but if I went into a private bathroom and some douche nozzle was standing with the door wide open, taking a piss, in an open stall bathroom I'd ask him what the **** he was doing. The same way I'd ask someone shaving their face with a ******* butter knife. That's not its designed purpose.

And, if I've read right up up until now, it's a written company policy to shut the door. That alone should be enough to ****can the unruly bastard.
 
It seems weird to react to seeing someone engaging in an activity nearly every lifeform on Earth engages in multiple times a day.

OK. If I eat something untoward which causes me to spray projectile feces everywhere due to whatever bug, you are quite comfortable to observe me spray painting the walls brown and, according to you, I should be quite comfortable having you watch me like some sort of fetishist.

That is deeply creepy.
 
This person claims a 170 IQ - on their resume -.
Wait, what? Who puts their IQ on a resume and why would you hire them if you saw that on a resume?

Aside from that, its weird, probably a power play but maybe exhibitionism. Start the process to of official warnings and what not to eventually lead to his termination.

I blush to admit it but early on in my working life I included my GPA in the Education part of my resume.
That's fine if you're fresh out of school and totally different from IQ.
 
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OK. If I eat something untoward which causes me to spray projectile feces everywhere due to whatever bug, you are quite comfortable to observe me spray painting the walls brown

Brown? Brown?! Brown is a luxury. You should see what happens when people get really ill. There have been occasions where I'd have killed for it to just be brown.
 

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