People tend to equate the bathroom with privacy. And although you can’t see anyone when you’re behind a closed stall door, that doesn’t mean you’re alone or that people can’t hear you.
The other day, I was discussing bathroom habits with some colleagues. And here’s what we suggest you keep in mind when using the office lav:

Did you know when you use the ovulation predictor kits the directions tell you to reduce your liquid intake and have a 4 hour section of no bathroom visits (and not to do it first thing in the morning because that would be cheating) and test at the same time every day? Four hour forced no bathroom time. It’s difficult enough to remember to use the bathroom at 2 pm and stop using the bathroom until I can get home to test. It was 2:20 today when I panicked and realize, I have to use the bathroom now. Must go now!!! It’s amazing I can do any of this.
I thought for sure I had posted about my drug testing experience at work but I can’t find the post. See at one point at my old job it was bought by another company and that company had a drug testing policy. So we all took turns in pairs going to the Medical Place to pee into a cup to be tested for drugs. I have my vices but drugs are not one of them. The older I get the less interested I even am in drugs and even when I was young it was a fear/curiosity thing and anything that scares me I will not try without long talks or certain bribery. I’m saddened to say that but it stopped my addictive personality from getting a hold of something it would surely love.
So there’s no problem with drug testing right?
I couldn’t do it. I cannot pee on command. It’s horrible. I sat in the bathroom with my little cup and you can’t even run the water to help you and I think it was mostly that someone had to be able to hear you pee. I can’t do that. I can’t even pee in a bathroom that has one stall and a waiting area. One stall where you are alone is okay but if there’s a sink area where people line up and wait I’m a wreck. There’s actually a restaurant in town that I know I cannot pee in. Sometimes I try and get to the door and someone else walks in to queue and decide against it.

I find it interesting that some businesses have this sign in the bathroom that reads “Employees Must Wash Hands Before Returning To Work” Isn’t that something we were all taught as children to do? In the sign pictured here, there are even step-by-step instructions that show an employee (or any customer who reads it) how to wash their hands after using the restroom. It’s very funny to me for some reason. For an interesting conversation on this topic, check out this forum where some people wonder how the heck you can monitor whether or not an employee washes their hands?
While they’re at it, why don’t these businesses have a sign in the backroom with a how-to on servicing the customer?