I locked one of the bathroom stalls at work from the outside on purpose, making it unusable.

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Two weeks ago I got incredibly angry at my company for reasons that are not so relevant for this post. In a fit of petty revenge, I locked one of the bathroom stalls in the toilet. These stalls use Indicator latches for locking/unlocking, and have a white/red indicator on the outisde to show if its occupied or not. Normally, these can only be locked/unlocked from the inside, but if the little “beam” is balanced vertically before closing the door, it is possible to tip it over by sliding the indicator a bit, locking it from the outside. This is exactly what I did.

Anyway, I thought that someone is going to notice this by now, as many people use the toilet, but so far its been locked a full week and nothing changed. There are 3 other stalls, so people can still do their business, so no one is really inconvinienced or harmed by this. My only regret is that I locked the first one in the row, and not the one next to it, because this way, I could poop in peace, knowing that no one will sit in the stall next to mine.

I could unlock it from the outside the same way i locked it, but at the moment I am sort of more curious to see when the company will finally do something about it.

Comments

  1. MrsBenz2pointOh Avatar

    If no one noticed – how is this revenge?

  2. F3rn4ndy Avatar

    Lock a 2nd one…

  3. huntinwabbits Avatar

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  4. lilias666 Avatar

    Poop in piece? How many?

  5. comatoseglow Avatar

    You’re a bad bad little man

  6. glandmilker Avatar

    Take a poo before locking the door shut

  7. ObservablyStupid Avatar

    They must not clean the bathrooms often. Or the janitorial staff would have noticed.

  8. free-spirit-87 Avatar

    Is it open at the bottom like other stalls? If so, no one has noticed there are no feet underneath the locked stall!? I mean technically someone could just crawl underneath and unlock it if it is open at the bottom. If not then that’s the weirdest and worst revenge on a company I can think of and I wouldn’t of even thought of this to begin with because the idea is so terrible lol

  9. brainshreddar Avatar

    You sure showed them!

  10. Worldly-Ingenuity843 Avatar

    Your company needs a new janitor. 

  11. ReluctantSentinel Avatar

    Is the Don Draper I don’t think about you at all meme relevant here?

  12. Professional_King790 Avatar

    What you’re saying is nobody cleans those bathrooms.

  13. Secret_Poet7340 Avatar

    I work near a men’s room where they ALWAYS overflow the handicap stall. Food, napkins, not flushing…etc. I am tempted to do this just to have a place to crap in peace again.

  14. Argentillion Avatar

    Ahh yes, the type of “revenge” that literally no one noticed and could be undone easily by anyone

  15. charming-owl4931 Avatar

    Doesn’t locking bathrooms just hurt those working there? You are inconveniencing other you work with…not the company.

  16. cutecarousel Avatar

    If my manager ever annoys me I do minor things that I know will inconvenience her like taking out all her staples, unplugging her mouse, emptying paper from the printer, changing her phone settings 😌petty but I love it

  17. GasFartRepulsive Avatar

    Make it your personal stall, unlock when you need to go, then lock it again when you’re done. I poop everyday at least once at work and I hate public toilets. Creating my own stall would be a dream

  18. JustMMlurkingMM Avatar

    You aren’t harming the company that you are angry with. You are harming your coworkers. This makes you a prick. Fix it.

  19. Unable_Tone8598 Avatar

    Pooping at work you say, that’s the real confession

  20. freesteve28 Avatar

    Your janitorial staff suck.

  21. Oz_Jimmy Avatar

    Lock the 3rd one now, that way everyone can knock one off in peace.

  22. Pleasant-chamoix-653 Avatar

    so you can have your own bathroom

  23. PandaGirl-98 Avatar

    Lol I would have locked 2 stalls

  24. graceling95 Avatar

    Aww the poor cleaning person whose gonna have to unlock them 🥲

  25. NotTooGoodBitch Avatar

    Is there a security camera anywhere nearby? A lot of systems don’t go back more than a month.

    Basically, how many piss discs can you slide under the locked door? I want to feel the awe and wonderment of management when they find a bathroom with 50 piss discs in it. I love the smell of fermented piss discs in the morning.

  26. Tig_Weldin_Stuff Avatar

    We did this in grade school buddy. It was fun, but we didn’t realize is how much piss could be on one floor.

    Ewwww..

  27. godownmoses79 Avatar

    Leave the handicapped one alone.

  28. Pure_Wrongdoer_4714 Avatar

    You’re a rebel and the streets aren’t safe as long as you’re out there.

  29. discoduck007 Avatar

    I can’t be sure how this impacts the employees because I don’t know the number of people using the restrooms. But that’s the same case in your scenario so I’m confused by the anger.

  30. ParParChonkyCat22 Avatar

    Why make it hard for other people to use the bathroom because you’re mad at a company? Just quit

  31. CarlJustCarl Avatar

    Lock a urinalysis next

  32. Sartpro Avatar

    Reminds me of a Winston prank from New Girl. Lol

  33. Dobby068 Avatar

    If that bathroom stall is still locked a few days later, it means that there is no cleaning happening.

    Any after hour cleaning crew would know nobody is inside that stall, I guess they just don’t care, or maybe it was reported and there is no follow up.

  34. JamiesMomi Avatar

    The custodian doesn’t notice? Or just happy for an excuse to clean one less toilet 🤔🤣🤣🤣

  35. gadget850 Avatar

    In my Army days, some joker locked all the stalls just before an inspection. Platoon sergeant was pissed and crawled under the doors to unlock them. Turns out all you had to do was lift the door with your foot and the latch would lift out of the jam.

  36. jacky4u3 Avatar

    This is literally a reflection of your character. The kind of person you are. This would have me looking in the mirror gut checking myself. Like.. this is really the kind of adult I am?

  37. harraypottah Avatar

    “Here’s one trick to get the janitor to hate you.”

    as featured on Buzzfeed

  38. StarWars_Viking Avatar

    I kind of did this during COVID. I was one of only a few who were in office the entire time. I decided I wanted a private bathroom.

    I locked the entire bathroom and had the only key. Everyone else just assumed it was out of order or someone was using it.

    It also doubled as a retreat at work so I couldn’t be bothered. I miss those days.

  39. Certain-Ad5767 Avatar

    You need to poop in the locked one many times w/ out flushing

  40. addicted-2-cameltoe Avatar

    Damn… thats dull. why u wasting our time.

  41. First-Ad-8451 Avatar

    what are twelve years old

  42. pepperspraytaco Avatar

    There is a petty revenge subreddit if you are interested

  43. MarisiaKing Avatar

    Dude at my last job did this, but it was a just a standard stall with a sliding lock. He put an old pair of boots in there so people would think it was occupied. Despite bring the only stall in that bathroom, it took 3 weeks for people to realize they’d been had.

  44. SherryGabs Avatar

    Am I the only one shaking my head at the immature stupidity of this? 🤦🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

  45. Pickle_Bus_1985 Avatar

    You could do a pretty interesting utilization analysis here if you keep locking doors. See how many toilets are actually needed to meet your company’s needs. That would save on cleaning the toilets not needed. Keep going.

  46. JetSeize Avatar

    Edit: I mean, the person suffering here is the maintenance person who is needing to go in there and unlatch it.

  47. grateful4u2287 Avatar

    No one cleans? Our janitorial services would never allow a stall to stay locked without reason. I have actually never worked anywhere that had a janitor that wouldn’t have taken care of that on day 1.

  48. almonded Avatar

    honestly, in your shoes I would lock 2 of them consistently so no one ever has to be next to another person in a stall. I’d lock 1st and 3rd (assuming handicap stall is 4th). Admittedly I don’t know what grievances you have, this might be too kind of you to do in this situation if you’re looking for truly petty.

  49. Crazymoose86 Avatar

    If you have no intention of unlocking it, just make sure you add water to the bowl periodically, otherwise you are going to enter the restroom one day and be greeted by the odor of sewer gasses.

  50. NotMyCat2 Avatar

    You think someone would notice by now.

    “You know you’ve been pooping in there for two weeks, are you ok?”

  51. LexGar Avatar

    The night was dark the sky was blue, down the alley the shit wagon flew. It hit a bump a crash was heard, Baka Schaka was killed by a flying turd.

  52. LloydPenfold Avatar

    I would be curious about what the cleanin g staff are doing about it – does anyone even check to see if there’s a body sat there. pants round ankles, having expired after a massive dump (or during one)?

  53. Sevyeknom Avatar

    You should have done your buisness in the one that you locked and not flush it before…

  54. loadformorecomments Avatar

    Who’s responsible for cleaning the stalls? Seems like they are the one who should notice and report it.

  55. LibraryNo8788 Avatar

    If there’s a gap at the bottom of the door, you can add some tall workbooks.

  56. Beautiful-Matter-912 Avatar

    There’s going to be some poor soul who has to go home to change their pants and under garments.

  57. Sherifftruman Avatar

    Nearly all of these have a key or some other way to unlock from the outside. Also, people can just climb under the stall.

  58. SAHD292929 Avatar

    lock 2 more stalls so whoever is pooping can poop in peace. LOL

  59. fibonacci_veritas Avatar

    What’s the point, though. You’re mad at your work, not necessarily your coworkers.

    You seem very childish and petty.

  60. Emotional-Ad-6494 Avatar

    Saw headline and thought you were a delta flight attendant…

  61. WildDreamgirl Avatar

    Not me walking into work tomorrow pretending to investigate why the bathroom stall won’t open while secretly taking notes. Girl, you’re living my dream of office chaos.

  62. chocolateboomslang Avatar

    The guy who cleans the bathroom loves you for this.

  63. Rich-Ad635 Avatar

    Next time try to leverage an attack that doesn’t punish your fellow workers more than the company.

  64. cola_wiz Avatar

    lol, me being similarly petty, was mad at the janitor for always leaving his “caution wet floor signs” in the middle of the entrance way so you’d have to skirt awkwardly around it or trip over it. I started picking it up and putting it in an unused locker (our bathrooms are also the locker rooms for changing in/out of work attire). Anyway, every time I did this a new sign would appear a few days later. So I’d do the same thing. The locker started getting pretty full of these signs and one day I overheard a conversation of the janitor with his boss I assume complaining that all his signs go missing and what should he do. So the next sign had sharpie marker hand written on it “men’s room #1/10” lol. I put a few more away and only stopped because the locker was jammed full of these signs now with no more room. There was around 15-20 of them stuffed in there. I brought a spare combo lock to work with me and it’s now been about 5 years, that lock is still there and no one has ever questioned it lmao.

    I’m sure eventually one day there’ll be a locker audit and someone will finally notice and cut the lock off and suddenly have a pay load of yellow folding “caution wet floor” signs. Hahaha

  65. FishermanHoliday1767 Avatar

    So you took your anger out on the maintenance person? Genius.

  66. New-Goat5233 Avatar

    Wow. You really showed them, I’m sure management will apologize for sure!

  67. Heythere23856 Avatar

    Very mature of you

  68. ConferenceSudden1519 Avatar

    Y’all don’t clean then, it means that stall has not been cleaned.

  69. Infamous-Sherbert937 Avatar

    You should have set up an old pair of pants and an old pair of work boots and tape them to the toilet so it looks like somebody sitting in there before you locked the stall door

    Ha ha

  70. armedsnowflake69 Avatar

    PETERSON!! I knew it was you! My office. NOW!

  71. PearlySweetcake7 Avatar

    One time, someone flushed a giant pair of panties in the second floor restroom, and it flooded through the floor and onto a couple of people and a few computers sitting downstairs

  72. Heymommj Avatar

    The cleaning staff didn’t even unlock it!?!? Ick

  73. Virtual-Neck637 Avatar

    Well done. You’re a child.

  74. Juicy_Apple_X Avatar

    You’re a BAD one!

  75. chinacat444 Avatar

    I bet you get an apology and a promotion. Way to go!………….

  76. DogAccomplished1965 Avatar

    I’ve done this before. As a whole child

  77. Betrayedunicorn Avatar

    Look at Ned Flanders here, finally going off the rails.

  78. Brand_New_Me50 Avatar

    Damn I’ve been wondering why I can’t use that stall.

  79. Ok-Stable-2015 Avatar

    Drake the kind of guy to call this a revenge

  80. Chelular07 Avatar

    You should slowly lock them all and see how long it takes anybody to notice

  81. PapayaAppropriate857 Avatar

    I guess they are stalling on fixing it….

  82. flitterbug33 Avatar

    I would lock and unlock so I had my own personal toilet.

  83. JazzFan1998 Avatar

    Just use the “locked” stall yourself!

  84. Interesting-Bison761 Avatar

    Death by a thousand paper cuts is still a death.

  85. 13Vex Avatar

    I think a stall being down in a men’s bathroom is par for the course

  86. WorryNew3661 Avatar

    Why isn’t the cleaner unlocking it to clean it?

  87. bluegrassnuglvr Avatar

    Lock them all=private restroom!

  88. Blackphinexx Avatar

    You’re only hurting your coworkers and the Janitors. Management doesn’t care.

  89. IvanTheDude123 Avatar

    Dude. No way those toilets are getting cleaned.

  90. fauxdeuce Avatar

    I’m just curious how does this mess with the company? I mean I get being mad at corporate or even the boss. But both probably will ignore this until the min wage employee craws under the stall to fix it.

  91. Eatmore-plants Avatar

    Someone did this at the hospital I work at last year and it was the stall that was accessible. It was unfair to all of us and incredibly inconvenient to the staff that needed the larger bathroom. They had to install cameras outside the locker doors to find out who did it.

  92. SupahSpankeh Avatar

    So your company pissed you off and you reacted by making life ever so slightly shittier for the people who may not have been involved in this?

  93. amanda10271 Avatar

    Remove the TP from the other stalls. Put it in the locked stall.

  94. Feeling_Charity778 Avatar

    Grab an old pair of shoes and set thembin front of the toilet. You might buy a few more weeks

  95. MyFrampton Avatar

    And just how did your company suffer from your wild spree of mayhem?

  96. Accomplished-Pin6763 Avatar

    Good one!

    If you’re 12.

    Your lameness makes me sad.

  97. Top_Pomegranate660 Avatar

    With the economy tanking, jobs will become scarce. Your job is more important than petty games. Act like an adult.

  98. cplforlife Avatar

    The amount of people who have medical emergencies in the toilet….

    These people would absolutely leave you to die until you stank bad enough to do something about it.

  99. Pcenemy Avatar

    every workplace has an a-hole like you.

    hopefully managment will recognize you and you’ll be gone

  100. FormSuccessful1122 Avatar

    My kindergarteners do this…

  101. Reality-Check-778 Avatar

    OP this is only effective if and only if you take a huge dump in the toilet and then lock the door from the outside. The smell will become so putrid that they will either have to bust down that door or die trying.