Anonymous wrote:I am imagining telling an adult. ..you can go #1 here but #2 you are on your own
Anonymous wrote:No good deed goes unpunished.
And pooping on company time is always a no-no and a fireable offense if it is not due to sickness.
Anonymous wrote:Wow, didn't expect so much blowback, but I did crowdsource it, so if this is the general view then at least I know I am something of an outlier.
For a major renovation -- e.g. total gut job of a kitchen or adding on a room -- I would spring for porta-potty. For a two week job in a suburban area near commercial businesses with bathrooms available? Nope.
It may shock you to know that I don't invite the guys who mow my lawn every week to come inside and use the bathroom either. But apparently you all would favor that.
In any case, I do appreciate the replies, even if I admittedly hoped that more people would side with me on this one. Spouse wanted to deny the use of our bathroom altogether, so I guess I assumed my more moderate position was the norm.
- OP
Anonymous wrote:Wow, didn't expect so much blowback, but I did crowdsource it, so if this is the general view then at least I know I am something of an outlier.
For a major renovation -- e.g. total gut job of a kitchen or adding on a room -- I would spring for porta-potty. For a two week job in a suburban area near commercial businesses with bathrooms available? Nope.
It may shock you to know that I don't invite the guys who mow my lawn every week to come inside and use the bathroom either. But apparently you all would favor that.
In any case, I do appreciate the replies, even if I admittedly hoped that more people would side with me on this one. Spouse wanted to deny the use of our bathroom altogether, so I guess I assumed my more moderate position was the norm.
- OP
Anonymous wrote:A small crew of carpenters is working on a new deck outside our house. All of the work is outside. It's supposed to take a couple of weeks.
On few occasions over the first three days of the project one worker or another has asked to come inside to use the bathroom.
Somewhat grudgingly, I let them do so. On the latest occasion, however, the worker took a big dump! For me, that crossed a line. If the roles were reversed, I guess I would ask to use the bathroom and hope the homeowner said yes, so I didn't have to drive to McDonald's or something. But if I knew I had to go No. 2, I would absent myself from the work site for 15-20 minutes and go do my business in a public bathroom (there is a McDonald's about a 5-minute drive from here).
If you were the homeowner, how would you handle this? I could specify to the crew foreman that a quick whiz is OK but anything more than that, the crew member should go find another spot to take a dump.
Or I could say nothing, I guess, and just wait for the project to be over.
I think it's too late to revert to a "no using our bathroom" policy, but I wish I had laid down that marker in the first place, in retrospect.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wow, didn't expect so much blowback, but I did crowdsource it, so if this is the general view then at least I know I am something of an outlier.
For a major renovation -- e.g. total gut job of a kitchen or adding on a room -- I would spring for porta-potty. For a two week job in a suburban area near commercial businesses with bathrooms available? Nope.
It may shock you to know that I don't invite the guys who mow my lawn every week to come inside and use the bathroom either. But apparently you all would favor that.
In any case, I do appreciate the replies, even if I admittedly hoped that more people would side with me on this one. Spouse wanted to deny the use of our bathroom altogether, so I guess I assumed my more moderate position was the norm.
- OP
Take comfort, OP, that you are slightly less horrible than your spouse. Congrats, I guess? But at least you've demonstrated that water seeks its own level.
And yes, if one of the landscapers who works on our house knocked on the door and asked to use our bathroom, of course I'd left them. WT actual F?
Anonymous wrote:Your choice is to either contact the contractor and offer to pay for a porta-potty to be placed in your backyard, or heaven forbid, treat these men as humans.