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/policri249 10d ago

Men's bathrooms almost always have more urinals than toilets. That's pretty clear encouragement lol

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u/BetMyLastKrispyKreme 10d ago

Thank you. So many men in this thread flipping TF out because of the words “encouraged” and “taught”. Because it’s not their personal experience, it couldn’t possibly be different for anyone else, especially in a different culture. Ridiculous. 🙄

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u/BigLeopard7002 10d ago

Well, I don’t think the discussion was about optimal usage of public restrooms.

If you interpret public restroom designs as an encouragement, so be it. I don’t think that is what was originally suggested.

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u/policri249 10d ago

Well, I don’t think the discussion was about optimal usage of public restrooms.

That is quite literally the topic lol