I explained in a later post that it’s a bathroom at work. We have quite a few employees that use the lunch break to jog, bike or play pickup basketball games. The bathroom doubles as a makeshift locker room.
I find it likely that occurs at many other workplaces too. Employee wellness programs encourage employees to get out and exercise. But, I don’t know and I’m not going to personally investigate. Some people may have a gym around the corner from their job and change there. My coworkers and I are not that lucky.
I can’t even imagine a bathroom at WORK (that isn’t an actual locker/shower room, like if you work at a gym) where people get naked out in the main part. For any reason. It would probably shock the hell out of me if I stepped into the men’s room at my work and saw naked people changing clothes out in the open.
:mad: They are not changing rooms, they are handicap accessible toilet stalls. Given that for many people the handicap stall is the only option, I’d kindly ask you to tolerate a minute or two of awkwardness and please use the non-accessible stalls for changing.
Well thank god for those big roomy stalls, right? Otherwise, things might get…slightly awkward.
Relax man. In my entire life I have never been in any washroom where the handicap stall was actually in use by someone in a wheelchair. Yes, that’s what they’re for, but I’ll bet the utilization rate for handicapped stalls is about 0.5%.
And if we’re changing in there, we’ll be in and out in 2 minutes.
Yea, in the time you’ve been in the restrooms you haven’t seen someone in a chair need the stall. So what? How about the fact that just about everybody has this same mindset? Guess what happens? The big, roomy stall becomes the default choice for most people. How about the fact that it is a rarity that I don’t have to (unnecessarily) wait, any time I need to piss or shit , because there’s one guy sitting in the handicap stall who just wanted to stretch out while taking a dump.
Sorry for the hijack but those stalls are stalls of necessity. For everyone. Don’t use them unless you have no other option. Very simple.
No offense, but can you at least start a new thread? Because this always veers off into total hijack. (I mean, I agree with you, it should be for people with who legitimately need it, but that’s not for this thread, kay?)
Unless, of course, you’re a handicapped person who needs to change. Then it’s cool, I’m assuming.
I once saw a naked man washing in the sink of a public restroom of a mall department store. Security escorted him away, not sure of the absolute outcome for him. Late 80s or early 90s
I’m pretty sure anyone getting naked in the men’s room outside a closed stall would have been disciplined in any workplace I’ve worked in.
Many of the buildings in this area have shower/locker rooms specifically targeted at bicyclists and daytime exercises.
Even if such a room is unavailable in a specific building, I can’t see employers tolerating the open area of a restroom being used to actually get naked.
I’m still not totally clear on this. When you use the work restroom to change, at any time do you not have underwear on while standing next to the sinks?
And this is a bathroom in which the main door doesn’t lock, so someone could walk in at any time and see you changing, right?
That would depend a lot on when they started transitioning and what kind of genes they have. I’ve seen a guy with a real nasty case of Mediterranean hips, and he was below 5’. From the back he looked like a woman. That particular model tends to develop early: that guy would have needed to start hormonal treatments about age 10 or 11 in order to avoid getting that figure.
yes, underwear is left on. We’re changing dress shirts and pants and wearing sweats.
If you’re familiar with boxers. You know theres a long slit in the front. I wouldn’t want to be in the woman’s bathroom and have a 7 or 8 year old girl wander in. They typically stand at waist height to an adult. A very unfortunate eyeline.
I know unisex bathrooms are coming. Theres no stopping them. Doesn’t mean that I or millions and millions of other Americans have to like it. this film crew certainly wasn’t happy with them. No one dares say anything because of the PC groups out there.
So what is your point? I guess kudos to you for using a source other than The Daily News, but nonetheless, what is your point? Unisex bathrooms are really a separate issue to the topic of this thread. As usual, you are on the wrong side of it, but there it is.
Here is the reality. Your experience of it being common behavior for men to be naked or near naked in the common (outside the stalls) part of an workplace men’s room is not the norm. I’ve worked for multiple companies over the years and have not seen this. I’ve never once been in a restroom and seen another dude’s privates.
Your experiences (and I believe exaggerations) tell us more about you than they contribute to this discourse.
Oh, and I get it. “PC groups” is your code for anyone who doesn’t have the same exact set of hang-ups you do. What’s in like there in the 1950s?
Some people may have a gym around the corner from their job and change there. My coworkers and I are not that lucky.
