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I work for a company* that was a very progressive attitude towards cycling. We have secure covered bike sheds with CCTV coverage, new changing rooms with showers and our own in-house cycle scheme that allows us to buy anything within reason (no unicycles) and negotiate our own discounts.

Imaging then how betrayed the MD would have felt had he wandered into the showers this morning and found this hanging up?

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A “scrunchy” in the men’s changing room? FFS.

* I leave next week BTW for a place that doesn't have a shower. 😐


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 10:44 am
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Now't wrong with a scrunchy, but leaving your wash stuff in the shared shower facility is a definite no no.


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 10:47 am
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Who would use that in a shared changing area given what it may well contain ? 😯


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 10:47 am
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Aye leaving stuff in shared showers is ming.


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 10:48 am
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Are you sure it's not a merkin?


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 10:49 am
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Wash your bumhole with it, that'll learn 'em 😈


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 10:50 am
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*tries not to imagine wwaswas' nether regions*

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Wash your bumhole with it, that'll learn 'em

If you took pics it certainly would.


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 10:50 am
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A flatmate at uni used to use leave a sponge in the shower...it was gross - full of spider legs.

You should get some tissues and move it...then the owner won't be sure whether someone has used it.

Alternatively, squirt some white shampoo on it, and leave it in the corner next to a copy of Razzle.


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 10:51 am
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pmsl McH nice one....


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 11:27 am
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we just used to bin anything left in the communal shower and the rules were you washed it before the shower and not after so you always knew it was as clean as you needed.
WTF is a scrunchy? that black thing?


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 11:30 am
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Start leaving pics like this in the changing room 🙂

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Posted : 17/05/2012 11:32 am
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WTF is a scrunchy?

As I understand... it's an exfoliator. I don't imagine you'd want to use something designed for removing dead sking whilst purusing Razzle.

Plus why would you take a magazine into the shower?


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 11:34 am
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Thats not a scrunchy. Thats pubic-hair build up from the plughole.


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 11:35 am
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I'm quite disappointed in the somewhat insipid colour choice. If you're going to wear a scrunchy, at least make a bold and striking statement

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Posted : 17/05/2012 11:35 am
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At least you have segregated changing rooms - ours are communal and I regularly walk in on men in various states of undress. Our showers are full of rubbish like that and damp towels lying around - yuk!


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 11:43 am
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You should see what I leave in the shower. Thinking about it its quite hard to see against the cream coloured shower base


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 11:43 am
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You eat Chocolate in the shower?
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Posted : 17/05/2012 11:46 am
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If I were him/her I'd be slightly more worried about someone in the showers taking photographs 😕


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 11:49 am
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Only if it's a...

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How about a ...

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Posted : 17/05/2012 11:51 am
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Bin it and use the shower gel. Its not on to leave stuff in a shower thats getting used by other people. We had a guy, now left, who treated one of the shower rooms as though it was his, and his alone - towel, suits, sweaty cycling kit all left in there. If only he knew the thinks that his towel had to wipe off the floor.


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 11:53 am
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personal stuff left in the shower room is definitely not on.

the shower room here is tiny, with only 4 hooks in it, but people leave all sort of towels and clothes in there.

I use their towels to wipe the floor, then leave them on the floor while i use the hooks for my stuff (if I'm feeling nice, I'll put them back after)

If people hang clothes up, I'll either put them on the floor while I use the hooks, or just hang my smelly bike kit on top of their suits/shirts.

I'm hoping that passive aggressive mistreatment of their stuff will eventually teach them not to use it as their own storage area.

Oh, and any shower gel left in there is fair game if I've forgotten my own.

Dave


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 11:59 am
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My approach too alfabus.


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 12:03 pm
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those scrunchy exfoliator things aren't very manly, but they do make shower gel foam up and last a million (thats right, exactly 1 million) times longer. i use one 🙂

i however ensure the shower is cleaner when i leave it than before i entered it.


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 12:04 pm
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Binners, I wish your scrunchy woman worked at our place. However, as she appears to have put her swimming cossie on back to front she might be a bit.. you know... thick.


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 12:04 pm
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Cleaning the shower! I have staff for that sort of thing.


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 12:06 pm
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I left my white towel hanging in the shower rooms (nowhere else for it to go) and this fat bloke used it and stuffed it in his Waitrose bag. Lucky I found it after I'd used it! I made a point of announcing loudly in the office that some scumbag had used my towel.
He's weird anyway - uses the work showers and doesn't do any sport..!


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 12:26 pm
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He may have other ways of working up a sweat in the office.


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 12:28 pm
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Put toothpaste into the shower gel


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 12:37 pm
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She may be a bit thick Harry, but she's both inventive and stylish....

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Have you thought about keeping the scrunchie, and accruing more for an attractive pair of leg warmers?


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 12:38 pm
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Put toothpaste into the shower gel

nah

bleach in the shampoo.


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 12:39 pm
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I arrived at work to find my towel missing. After deciding that sitting in an open plan office with stinky cycling clothes on wasn't the done thing, the only course of action was to use someone else's towel.

I found my towel in the shower, having clearly just been used by someone.

I'd just hung the other towel back up and was busy rooting through my bag when I heard a voice "someone's been using my f---ing towel".

"Mine too," I said. "Disgusting, isn't it?".


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 12:49 pm
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At least it's black so (most) pubes wouldn't be visible.


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 1:27 pm
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[i]I arrived at work to find my towel missing. After deciding that sitting in an open plan office with stinky cycling clothes on wasn't the done thing, the only course of action was to use someone else's towel.[/i]

I forgot to take my towel into the shower room once, only realised mid shower. Merino cycling tops make good towels. And left on the radiator all day was nice and dry for home time.


 
Posted : 17/05/2012 1:53 pm

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