Anonymous wrote:I think all adults should be able to control their #2 unless it's a true emergency. Who just poops in the middle of the day?

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Anonymous wrote:I think all adults should be able to control their #2 unless it's a true emergency. Who just poops in the middle of the day?

Uh, me. Most people who actually eat enough fiber and have a healthy diet. Someone who had vegetarian chili the night before. Anyone with even mild IBS or other GI issues (watch some TV and there are tons of commercials for Crohn's, Colitis and other chronic issues) #everyonepoops

Anonymous wrote:I ask each contractor if they have to go big or little and if it's big I say no. Then I stand outside the door listening to make sure they are only doing little and if I hear them going big I yell and rattle the door and demand they be fired from the job. If I only hear them do little before they leave the bathroom I inspect and make sure they didn't miss the bowl and if so, make them clean it all up to my standards.

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:I think all adults should be able to control their #2 unless it's a true emergency. Who just poops in the middle of the day?

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: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.

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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.

Are you mad? Of course you can relieve yourself while working. I think there are actually laws protecting this.

Anonymous wrote:Why "grudgingly"? They are people. They have toilets where they live. Why on earth would anyone not let the workmen at their house use a toilet?

Anonymous wrote:You should let them use the toilet. They should clean up after themselves, so You shouldn't have any knowledge of what they did in there unless you're at the door listening. (Of course even if they are fastidious and keep the exhaust fan on, there might be a lingering smell, but that's a natural side effect of being human,)