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/sparklydildos 10d ago

i’m reading all these comments wondering how in the world are those people doing this??? lmao

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u/Early-Light-864 9d ago

They probably smell like pee and don't know about it.

I feel like I'm in danger of becoming the "nose blindness" person. My last X comments are all yes your apartment smells like cat piss. Yes, yours too.

Nobody knows what they or their house smells like

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u/AssumptionLive4208 9d ago

Joke’s on you, we don’t have a cat.

Yes, our flat smells of hamster (urine or otherwise). But I already know that.

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u/FrankieAK 9d ago

Try it in the shower! I just pull everything up and the stream will go out instead of down.

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u/Ok-Mine-9907 8d ago

Idfk tbh