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OP, this thread is taking off in the direction of everyone's preferences and routines and home layouts etc. and questions re: Is an open door a universal sign it's OK to enter, should one use "verbal questions" first (aren't they all going to be verbal, unless you pass your spouse a note through the open doorway while averting your gaze?) etc. etc.

People are missing the larger issue here! WTF is it with people who take [i]WORK calls in the bathroom?[/i]If they were in an office they wouldn't be trailing around with their airpods in, doing work calls in the office bathroom, flushing sounds and water sounds and all -- would they? Were people that insane before the pandemic when offices were a thing?
 
I realize not everyone has a dedicated, private office in their homes. Fine. But you can still pick a place, or a couple of places, inside your home where you do take and make work calls and do your work, and leave the freaking bathrooms and one's own bedroom out of that equation. It's just civilized. It lets everyone in the household have better separation between work spaces and living spaces, and between work time and non-work time.

My DH works in our dining room. He takes and makes a lot of calls. It would never even occur to him to take phone into or wear airpods in the bathroom. If someone calls in the very short time he's in there, he will do that very old-fashioned thing of actually calling them back, because--bathroom. Call of nature. But your DH was showering, not using the toilet--why was he doing that if this was such a "really importat call? He should have taken (or made) the call somewhere he could give it his full attention, not half-ass it while he's drying off. Yes, OP, you are right to be pi$$ed with him. He's letting work spill into places where it's ridiculous to let work happen. And expects you to read his mind too. .

This is the kind of always on call, "no boundaries between work and home" problem that is a huge negative about WFH, but it can be resolved if people pick places where work is off limits. Like bathrooms.

There is a recent thread here where the DW is peeved with the DH wandering all over the house including into their bedroom, where she does her own work during the day, while he's talking on calls. Is that you, by any chance, OP? I think both you and she need to tell these guys that the entire house is not one big office space for them.

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