[Dilemma] The other day I noticed that one of my housekeepers used one of our first floor bathrooms. We have some significant landscaping work currently underway on our grounds, and as a result, we have a port-o-potty in our driveway for the workers to use. The housekeeping team is usually here for 4-5 hours. I understand if the housekeeper needs to use the bathroom, and that emergencies arise... but I must say it is not a good look to use my bathroom when on the clock. Especially when the port-o-potty could be discreetly used outside (this is an upscale port-o-potty). This got me thinking: Under basic rules of etiquette, who should be able to use a non-bedroom bathroom while at someone's house? Please share your thoughts in the poll. GOOD DAY
Aside from your current situation, which must involve quite a lot of landscaping work if you have such a large crew that you paid to provide an "upscale Port-O-Potty" in order to keep them out of your house, I would allow all of those (except for a large construction/landscaping crew) on your list to use the downstairs guest facilities. Not all at once, of course. It could get a bit crowded. I'm very cautious about letting strangers in our house.
The problem is what if they don't flush? Then, you smell it later and have to take care of it. Eww. Then, they touched a bunch of stuff with grubby hands. What did they touch? Full decontamination.
Never been an issue for me, hire good people, lay down the groundwork: Problem solved before it's a problem. This got me thinking: Under basic rules of etiquette, who should be able to use a non-bedroom bathroom while at someone's house? The answer is "anybody you've allowed to who has been allowed to" should use a guest bathroom, by the way, that's why you have a guest bathroom(s) in the first place. If you can't afford to have one, you can't afford to let people use it/them, or frankly have people on your property in the first place, then tell them to piss outback behind the garage like a normal person. Sorry, Riceboy, you seem to be a bit small, get it up someday.
It depends. Are you employing the housekeepers or just paying them as their own business? I think anyone who is on your Schedule H can use the home’s bathroom without asking. Cleaners on the other hand should not use the rest room or port a potty without explicit permission from the homeowner. Finally, personal tutors and trainers should be given the courtesy of using the rest room indoors but should ask if they can and generally should not be using the restroom. But they should not be using a portapotty either. The port-a-potty should be for the contractors and laborers they employ.
Why would you ever invite anyone into your home, to deal with your children, and not let them use the bathroom?
It’s not that you don’t let them, it’s just that a tutor for example should use the restroom either before or after they teach the lesson. Household employees on the other hand should not even have to ask.
I have the opposite problem. Took a huge dump in a building one time, near the housekeepers headquarters. Clogged the toilet. No plunger to be found. What is the proper etiquette in this situation? I can tell you that I am not a proper man with exquisite etiquette. That is why I will never have the problems the OP claims to have.
Lmao. Reminds me of the story of the girl who scooped it out and put it in the kitty litter only to be confronted because the man’s cat had died.
Was telling the story to my brother. Told him obviously they'd find it. And when they did, I told him, "they're gonna wonder how someone smuggled a dark walnut stained 2x4 in here and clogged the toilet with it."
The **** is this thread? I let anyone who doesn’t look like a threat use my shitter. Take care of each other, bros. It’s the only way to live.
