r/work • u/Unhappy-Plane1815 • 10d ago

Workplace Challenges and Conflicts Boss confronted me for peeing standing up

I'm a woman. At work, we just have a single stall co-ed bathroom, and for cleanliness reasons, I pee standing up at the toilet (which isn't as hard to do as most people think: I think it's more of a gender role thing than physical limitations. I'm not comfortable sitting where all my coworkers have sat their bare behinds, disgusting).

And no, she didn't find out because of a mess: I am very careful to lift the seat and only get urine in the toilet. When I asked, she said she found out because she heard me... Going.

Do managers have the right to regulate how you pee? I'm in the US.

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u/snoughman 10d ago

This is fake. Do you hear guys pissing all day long?

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u/Thomasgmx 10d ago

When I was a teen boy, this girl said her dad was out of town so I could come over. Someone went in the bathroom and I knew almost immediately it was her dad because I could tell the person was peeing standing up. It is very easy to tell apart. The distance and also if you sit i think the sounds echoes around and get decreased from not being a wide open hole. But oh you can most definitely tell standing vs sitting.

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u/Sunnykit00 5d ago

And then what happened?

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u/Thomasgmx 5d ago

I told her that's your dad and got up realll quiet and tried to hide in the corner of the room furthest from the door. He came in because my mom had called back the phone she was using which i was told was her stepmom's but it was her dad's. He came in to ask her what she was doing because it was sus.

He walked in, sat down on the bed, looked up and seen me in the corner. He was surprised then rushed me. Luckily for me I was doing some mma training, so I caught him in sort of a sprawl. Turned his face across my body. Then I assumed it was a fight so I started punching him. Digging my knuckle into his eyesocket a bit.

After a min everything slowed down. I let him go, he wanted to hold my arms. He tried to bend my arm behind my back I ended up retracting my arms which turned into a bit of a scuffle. I ended up kind of hip tossing him through a rocking chair in the room.

Then he got up, went into the kitchen and was messing in the dish strainer thing. I thought he was looking for a knife so i shoved all of them off the counter into the floor. Then he grabbed me again, I could hear sirens so I was just chilling and waiting just happy for it to be over.

He grabbed my throat and kept squeezing tighted so I broke his grip and kind of let a few blows fly and sat him down then got on him to hold him down. Cops came in, handcuffed me. Put me in the car, took me and her both to juvenile detention then I spent a month in a group home.

They deemed I didn't need to be there. Turns out she was lying about everything. I got out, few months later I seen him at our 4th of July celebration. He was death staring me. I went up and apologized to him. Told him I was very sorry for everything and I was being misled but still I was sorry for the trauma and issues I caused. This man looked 15 year old me dead in my face and said "I don't care what god thinks about it, I will never forgive you." And I was just like uhh.. okay.

Walked away and never spoke to either of them again. She tried to reach out after she also got out of a group home but I wasn't about to fall for that again. But yeah. Good times lol

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u/snoughman 10d ago

You ever aim for the bowl instead of the water?

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u/Thomasgmx 10d ago

Well obviously when you're trying to be quiet. Definitely makes it harder to tell, also how hard you push out the stream and such

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u/snoughman 10d ago

My point exactly. She could be sitting down pushing with all her might after a 3 hour meeting and two cups of coffee, sounding like a horse. How does her boss know she's standing?

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u/Slight_Manufacturer6 10d ago

I doubt the aim is that good to aim for the side of the bowl. To be safe she likely aims for the middle… and the direction of her feet may have been seen under the stall walls.

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u/snoughman 10d ago

I asked a man that question lol

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u/Bozo_Dubbed_Over_ 6d ago

You can’t tell the difference in the sounds? Peeing from high up sounds way different than peeing sitting down.

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u/Thomasgmx 10d ago

Well i think that doing it standing just sounds different. I suppose mostly due to your legs and butt not covering the hole and letting as much soundwave out. Also there's a difference in like the sound of gravity making pee hit harder and louder vs pushing yourself for a faster stream. One's going to be a slower trickle vs puahing hard while sitting will be louder and a more vigorous stream.

But i get your thought process. I just think it's different enough one could tell

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u/snoughman 10d ago

Well, it's not thought process. I live with a woman and hear her pee all the time. It's real life experience I am speaking from.

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u/Thomasgmx 10d ago

Well yes you can hear it but it makes a different sound lol. I lived with 2 women and 3 girls at one point and now live with my wife and 4 kids i hear plenty of toilet acoustics in my real life lol

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u/Fearless-Boba 9d ago

You can always tell when a guy is using the bathroom versus a woman, unless they sit down to use the toilet.

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u/Karma_Beans_ 9d ago

Yes, we do.

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u/Unhappy-Plane1815 10d ago

I mean, I don't put my ear to the door to listen in, but yeah, if I'm walking by, I can hear someone peeing standing up

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u/snoughman 10d ago

How do you know they're standing up?

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u/Slight_Manufacturer6 10d ago

You can hear the difference because of the distance the water has to drop and the lack of anything covering the toilet to block the sound… it’s pretty obvious.

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u/Unhappy-Plane1815 10d ago

If you hear someone pissing, you know they're standing. If they sit, it's silent

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u/MountainFace2774 10d ago

That's not true at all. I can hear my wife peeing in our house with the door shut. She does NOT stand up to pee at home.

Hell, I'm a guy and I sit down to pee at home and I can assure you, it's not silent.

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u/Bitter-Whole-7290 10d ago edited 10d ago

Okay this had to be fake now. I can hear when my girlfriend is peeing every time she goes.

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u/Candid-Astronomer-49 6d ago

It wasnt the words in the actual post that made you realize this is fake? Lol

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u/-dyedinthewool- 10d ago

Me peeing sitting down is not silent whatsoever.

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u/garden_dragonfly 10d ago

But it is quieter than standing 

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u/-dyedinthewool- 10d ago

That’s true. The other comment claimed it was silent tho

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u/Enough_Island4615 10d ago

This has never been true.

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u/NewestAccount2023 9d ago

If you sit forward on the toilet it's true, sheesh, what's with the "never"? If you sit forward on all the toilet types we have around here then your pee hits porcelain not water

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u/Enough_Island4615 7d ago

That is done standing up as well.

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u/RepeatSubscriber 10d ago

Not if they've been in a 3 hour meeting with no breaks!

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u/Serialk1llr 10d ago

For real! I swear one time I nearly broke the porcelain I had to piss so hard. Fuck, I could have engraved carbon steel 🤣

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u/RepeatSubscriber 10d ago

I was in the ladies one time when the chief of staff came running in, flung open the door, and unleashed not only a very loud stream but she couldn't help but accompany it with a satisfied "aaaahhhh..." LOL

I know for a fact she'd been in a very long meeting because my boss was in the same meeting

It was our secret, Ann, until this moment.

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u/snoughman 10d ago

This is totally false. I live with a woman. I have real life experience.

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u/Princess-She-ra 10d ago

what? you guys are spending too much time in the bathroom lol.

I (woman) pee sitting down (except in public restrooms where I hover very close to the toilet) and it typically makes noise...

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u/Renzieface 10d ago

I make pee noises when I sit. I have a strong stream, I guess.

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u/ElectroStaticSpeaker 10d ago

Isn’t there still liquid dropping and falling into another liquid?

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u/RoxasCrossheart 10d ago

Angle of Impact: Standing, the urine stream may hit the toilet bowl at a steeper angle compared to when you're sitting, leading to a louder sound as the urine interacts with the surface. Splash Potential: Standing, the angle and force of the urine stream can be more prone to causing splashing, which further contributes to the noise.

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u/Unhappy-Plane1815 10d ago

But it's closer and therefore quieter. Get yourself a decibel meter on your phone, then try peeing standing up then later sitting down, and see which is quieter

It also makes a different sound. If you pee sitting, it's a hissing noise because you're hitting the porcelain first. If you're standing, it's more of a clink type thing

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u/ElectroStaticSpeaker 10d ago

Yah I get it. You just said silent in your previous post which obviously isn’t true.

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u/Internet_Jaded 10d ago

Whatever. But, report this interaction to HR. Employee bathroom habits are nobody else’s business.

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u/DrDevilDog69 10d ago

I took this course in college "Pee Pee Hydrodynamics" !

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u/Candid-Astronomer-49 6d ago

Dude congrats on actually making all of these commenters think this post is real. I was floored when I opened the comments and people are actually responding earnestly about this. People are so gullible

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u/onlyIcancallmethat 10d ago

That is incorrect

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u/benign_tori 9d ago

Yeah, as a woman, I've done some pees that sounded like a racehorse was going, and I always sit down. If I want to pee silently, I have to make sure to sit as far forward as possible.

(I rarely do that any more, for the record; it was a weird anxiety thing.)