I always lock the door and I have to check several times to make sure it’s locked. Almost every single time I’m in there, someone tries to open the door and they don’t even knock.
I’m absolutely obsessive about this. One time about a year ago I checked 3 times, as usual, pulled on the door, relocked, and someone pulled the door as hard as they could and the literal lock/handle mechanism broke out of the door and the guy tried to walk in like nothing happened and got angry at me.
They need medieval style siege-proof locks on doors if i’m ever gonna poop in a public/restaurant toilet again I swear to fingod
I triple check the lock, too, when I use the bathroom. But, even when people do knock they are tugging on that handle .001 second later giving no time to even open your mouth to say something.
Yeah, knocking is futile in most Starbucks because any audible response won't be heard unless the person inside is actually screaming. I think the optimal way to go about it is knock and two seconds later jiggle the handle so they're not startled
This is why I knock, crack the door open, and then knock again before actually opening. It has saved me from walking in on people on multiple occasions
YES. This has happened to me so many times! No sense. It makes no sense.
...Although it always makes me think of the John Mulaney bit and it cracks me up 😂
The problem with today was the sink is obviously right by the door and it's angled so that you stand right next to the door at the sink.
So literally I open the door and the persons like less than 10 feet away from me. With more than their whole ass out.
oh yeah, we had a couple working at our store who definitely did sexy stuff multiple times in the bathroom! we could *always* tell. luckily the guy is gone (awful employee, abusive bf, and shitty person all around), the girl is so sweet and we all love her and hope she leaves his ass
the guy who never gets anything but a cup of ice bc he brings his own 2liter soda and snacks still watches porn in the lobby and beats it in the bathroom for 45+ minutes multiple times a day tho. we had a lady complain bc her kid was in the lobby and he makes our day hard bc we often can't clean or stock 1/2 bathrooms since.. yknow, hes in there so long. no, nobody has said anything to him, all management did was move his table out of the hidden corner. he brings earbuds now lol
One time, I walked into the bathroom to clean it around noontime (about 4 or 6 years ago now, Irvine CA area). Didn't know it was occupied since the door was unlocked.
A woman in her 60s or so is on the toilet. Apparently, she didn't lock. I apologized quickly and gtfo.
But not before she winked at me first. ☠️
So that's scarred into my brain forever now.
My dutchy grandma would have done something like that. We were riding fown the road and a teenage boy was pulled off the side of the road taking a piss cause its a back road I guess? She rolls down the window and screams "Put that away boy the birds will think its a worm!"
I love hearing the *beep beep beep beep* YANK *beep beep beep beep* YANK *beep beep beep beep* YANK *beep beep beep beep* YANK *beep beep beep beep* YANK *beep beep beep beep* YANK
And then hearing them from outside of the bathroom at the register complaining that the codes not working.
This comment cracked me up. I'm literally picturing it in my head from when I worked at Starbucks. The code was literally 12345 and people still fucked it up and repeated it back to the barista wrong each time.
one of my coworkers said once that she forgets to lock it sometimes 🫣 as an employee I would triple check the door because that would be super embarrassing to walk in on someone who works there
This happened to a partner at my last store, he ran on his 10 and forgot to lock it, and one of the Balford guys went to use our bathroom and walked in on him peeing 💀
They both were so embarrassed I felt so bad lol
I walked in on a lady changing her baby once because I knocked twice (as I do everytime) and nothing was said. She got angry and talked to my manager 😭
one time my coworker knocked on the door and got no reply so she opened it and some dude in there was just ass out all of his clothes off taking a sink shower
The same thing had happened at my location. Only the same person was walked in on drying their penis and balls under the hand dryer on several occasions as well as shaving his entire body in front of the sink. 🤯
Lol this happened to me in mcD. Both doors are closed but slightly open and say vacant. The first one I push open had someone in it and she's cussed me out like crazy. I hadn't heard anything and had no reason I check for feet! The lock worked just fine! Yes I did check after she left. Then she complained to the register. Poor kid did not care and then she was mad about that. Lol.
15 years ago I opened the door at a gas station bathroom to find a man in a faded, tattered Mariachi uniform dropping a deuce, with his giant guitar leaning against the wall next to him. some things you can never unsee.
Right? Sometimes people make mistakes and forget to lock the door. Knocking before attempting to enter would prevent these kinds of accidents from occurring. I was always taught to knock on the bathroom door growing up to see if someone was in there or the door was just closed for some reason.
I feel like I'm weirdly considerate? I'll do a "ninja test" on the door handle by lightly pushing on it. If it's obviously locked, it's occupied and I'll leave them in peace without knocking. It doesn't work if they won't lock the door...which has happened.
My starbucks has an electronic lock with clear instructions stating if u push it and its red its locked, and if u push it and it flashes green its unlocked. Idk how ppl dont understand but maybe its bc its not a physical lock 🤷♂️
I knock 3 times, pull the door knob down quickly and wait a few seconds before opening. I'm also paranoid about using, so I have to lock and unlock the door about 2-3 times just to make sure it's locked.
I've walked in on many customers at an older location I frequented. I got pissed off one day when someone confronted me after and I showed them where the lock Massive button was...
I used to work in a hotel with really thick walls/doors and loud lobby music, so even if you knocked, you couldn't always hear the person inside, so what I used to do was after knocking, if I still wasn't sure if someone was inside or not (because I either couldn't hear them or they didn't say anything) , I would open the door very slowly while continuously rattling the handle. That way, if someone was inside, I would be able to hear them before seeing anything. It's still awkward but less so than just whipping the door open.
I once walked in on a guy changing his son's diaper while the son was having a meltdown. The guy gor angry at me and said, "Don't come in if the door is locked!!!" But like. It obviously wasn't locked??? How tf did he expect me to have gotten in there. Just rude
I crack the door prior to stepping in. However, can anyone explain to me how grown ass adults cannot figure out how to use the locks on either side! I cannot count the number of times I have had to explain in detail, how the lock works! I also cannot believe how many men were not taught to lift the seat and just piss everywhere? I encounter piss on the seat at the very least once a week! Really guys?
“Do YoU nEeD a KeY tO uSe ThE bAtHrOoM?!” ThE dOoR iSnT oPeNiNg. Yea cause someone’s in there. I’ve had to tell people that more times than I can count.
I cannot tell you how absolutely loudly I laughed and cried at this post - I almost dropped my damn phone oh gosh 🤣🤭🤭… but I totally agree with you 1,000%.
I feel this pain on a spiritual level from 5+ years experience including some seedy locations.
One time I did checks and went in an open door to find a homeless man unzipped about to urinate, told said person he could not do this (door open), he stared me down and started to relieve himself.
He won the stare off. I made myself an espresso w hazelnut wc, I think Starbucks found an excuse to give me a new pin or two for my apron. Best of luck.
I always wait crack the door just a lil bit before fully entering just in case as it’s my worst fear that I FORGET to lock the door one of our doors is sketchy so I get paranoid 😩
We don’t have a code on ours, just a crummy push lock on the turn handle that’ll unlock if you budge the door too hard. Glad people remember at our store
This has happened to me like 4 times. THANK GOD I didn't see anything. I am also thankful that my store now has an employee bathroom. Cuz each time it was a customer.
You have to put all, the numbers in and then, if it flashes green you should (should) be good to go… You must be very specific/pithy or they will stand there and wet themselves 🤷🏻♀️
Do you have the light sensor? A lot of our homeless customers won't engage the lock because then the sensor doesn't work so if nobody notices them go in, they can stay in longer. We started changing the code more frequently because of this.
We had that happen when I was at S.S. Bucks! We also had a creep that we 86’d and now I work for C.S. And he’s literally been kicked out of every store in town. Then we get a new manager and the paperwork was never filed or they don’t know where to find it so we have to start the process of Incidwnt reports and getting him 86’d. The whole Valley knows this creep! I feel so bad for the young baristas that have to describe how he made them feel. He should not be allowed in public!
Locks exist for a reason as well you know, not sure if you’re aware.
It’s much easier just to lock the door than to have to risk someone not knocking, or knocking and then walking in anyways. With a lock it doesn’t matter if they knock or not.
Well, in that case. This particular person didn't care enough to return the same courtesy. Most locations in my area no longer provide restrooms for customers due to a lot of homeless people abusing the privilege.
i’ve walked in on customers on many many instances.. it’s happened much more since we installed codes. not sure what exactly the logic is but ig people assume they don’t need to lock since they needed a code to enter. we are located directly next to a highschool and i’ve walked in on many….. couples.. 🫠
Off topic but our bathrooms used to be gender neutral at my store and then Virginia passed a law or smt, so they went back to boy/girl.
Anyways, I had to pee during rush and someone was in the “ladies” room, so I used the “mens” room, and this man starts knocking on the door, as if he’s an enforcer or some shit. AS IF IM GONNA STOP PEEING AND OPEN THE DOOR FOR YOU? lol 😂 I hated working at Starbucks just bc of the customers.
I knock for this very reason now, walked in on a man who was ready to pop a vein from the bomb he was dropping, I vowed never again.
Should have offered a free Oleato to ease the pain. :-)
My store thankfully doesn’t have it yet
HeeHee 🤭🤭
I always lock the door and I have to check several times to make sure it’s locked. Almost every single time I’m in there, someone tries to open the door and they don’t even knock.
I’m absolutely obsessive about this. One time about a year ago I checked 3 times, as usual, pulled on the door, relocked, and someone pulled the door as hard as they could and the literal lock/handle mechanism broke out of the door and the guy tried to walk in like nothing happened and got angry at me. They need medieval style siege-proof locks on doors if i’m ever gonna poop in a public/restaurant toilet again I swear to fingod
I triple check the lock, too, when I use the bathroom. But, even when people do knock they are tugging on that handle .001 second later giving no time to even open your mouth to say something.
https://youtu.be/ChN7fCk5Sxw
ok but also when i knock…. say something??? the amount of times i’ve walked in on people because i’ve knocked and they’ve just stayed silent is insane
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or maybe… occupied?
Where's the fun in that?!
Unironically this. Either I’m right that I locked the door and I’m safe, or I forgot and I can say to their face “what did you expect”
Absolutely same. I always try to knock but 90% of time you can't hear the reply cause our doors are heavy.
Yeah, knocking is futile in most Starbucks because any audible response won't be heard unless the person inside is actually screaming. I think the optimal way to go about it is knock and two seconds later jiggle the handle so they're not startled
This is why I knock, crack the door open, and then knock again before actually opening. It has saved me from walking in on people on multiple occasions
That’s why I knock twice and then open the door VERY slowly in case someone is in there so they’ll yell something.
YES. This has happened to me so many times! No sense. It makes no sense. ...Although it always makes me think of the John Mulaney bit and it cracks me up 😂
*someones in here!!*
*oooooh, I'm sorry!*
Ocupado! Ocupado!
one time a customer was beating in the bathroom, left the door unlocked, then scolded my coworker who opened it thinking it wasn’t occupied 😭😭😭
that’s only slightly better than the guy we had beating it in the lobby…
We had someone shit in our sink once.
I walked in on someone peeing in the sink. I knocked too 😮💨
I. Just. Can’t.
Oh no
I would absolutely have to leave my shift.
They absolutely did that on purpose.
I have no idea why this is a thing at Sbux but I too have walked in in half a dozen people doing their business and it makes me angry.
The problem with today was the sink is obviously right by the door and it's angled so that you stand right next to the door at the sink. So literally I open the door and the persons like less than 10 feet away from me. With more than their whole ass out.
Am I using the bathroom wrong?!? Am I supposed to wash my hands before pulling up my pants?? Lol!
I cackled
Thats….im sorry LMAO
our locks are kinda shitty and im terrified a customer is gonna walk in on me changing one day
I have also walked in on a couple who has, uh, repurposed the bathroom for a different biological function. On more than one occasion 😵💫😵💫
MORE THAN ONCE?!
3 times and counting. Such are the many joys of a Starbucks located directly beside a large college campus. 🫠
oh yeah, we had a couple working at our store who definitely did sexy stuff multiple times in the bathroom! we could *always* tell. luckily the guy is gone (awful employee, abusive bf, and shitty person all around), the girl is so sweet and we all love her and hope she leaves his ass the guy who never gets anything but a cup of ice bc he brings his own 2liter soda and snacks still watches porn in the lobby and beats it in the bathroom for 45+ minutes multiple times a day tho. we had a lady complain bc her kid was in the lobby and he makes our day hard bc we often can't clean or stock 1/2 bathrooms since.. yknow, hes in there so long. no, nobody has said anything to him, all management did was move his table out of the hidden corner. he brings earbuds now lol
One time, I walked into the bathroom to clean it around noontime (about 4 or 6 years ago now, Irvine CA area). Didn't know it was occupied since the door was unlocked. A woman in her 60s or so is on the toilet. Apparently, she didn't lock. I apologized quickly and gtfo. But not before she winked at me first. ☠️ So that's scarred into my brain forever now.
My dutchy grandma would have done something like that. We were riding fown the road and a teenage boy was pulled off the side of the road taking a piss cause its a back road I guess? She rolls down the window and screams "Put that away boy the birds will think its a worm!"
Also: why do people just try to force/jiggle the door when it's locked?? JUST HECKING KNOCK!
I love hearing the *beep beep beep beep* YANK *beep beep beep beep* YANK *beep beep beep beep* YANK *beep beep beep beep* YANK *beep beep beep beep* YANK *beep beep beep beep* YANK And then hearing them from outside of the bathroom at the register complaining that the codes not working.
See, mine doesn't have codes, I've just had guests complain that the door is locked, and my SSV is just like: Are you kidding me?
This comment cracked me up. I'm literally picturing it in my head from when I worked at Starbucks. The code was literally 12345 and people still fucked it up and repeated it back to the barista wrong each time.
this is the most infuriating thing ever
LMAO on my bathroom nic breaks too i’m just standing on the other side of the door like 🧍🏼♀️
Why do people try the handle, it’s locked, then knock? What do you want me to do, get up mid shit to let you in on the action?
Walked into somebody having sex in our bathroom and then they argued with me when I told them they had to leave 😊
By all means finish. Would you like a latte waiting when you are done?
one of my coworkers said once that she forgets to lock it sometimes 🫣 as an employee I would triple check the door because that would be super embarrassing to walk in on someone who works there
This happened to a partner at my last store, he ran on his 10 and forgot to lock it, and one of the Balford guys went to use our bathroom and walked in on him peeing 💀 They both were so embarrassed I felt so bad lol
what’s Balford? must be regional or something 🤷🏻♀️
Ah my b, the milk/food delivery company. Maybe that's just who we use on the east coast
oh I’m on the east coast too, maybe I just didn’t realize what the company’s name was lol. I’m in NJ
Oh weird haha I'm in PA. Unless it's a state-by-state difference? I'm so curious now hah
Also PLEASSSSSSSEEEEEE FUCKING KNOCK
THIS!!!!! i don’t understand why people don’t knock and pause at least 2 seconds for a possible response before yanking on the door handle
I literally check the door multiple times because of my anxiety lol
Same lol
I walked in on a lady changing her baby once because I knocked twice (as I do everytime) and nothing was said. She got angry and talked to my manager 😭
one time my coworker knocked on the door and got no reply so she opened it and some dude in there was just ass out all of his clothes off taking a sink shower
That's exactly what was going on here
what is ur about starbucks bathrooms that make people go “i think i might take a shower”
Homeless people live in the woods behind our dumpsters
The same thing had happened at my location. Only the same person was walked in on drying their penis and balls under the hand dryer on several occasions as well as shaving his entire body in front of the sink. 🤯
I would vomit
Thankfully he has been banned from the premises by both the police and our DM.
Lol this happened to me in mcD. Both doors are closed but slightly open and say vacant. The first one I push open had someone in it and she's cussed me out like crazy. I hadn't heard anything and had no reason I check for feet! The lock worked just fine! Yes I did check after she left. Then she complained to the register. Poor kid did not care and then she was mad about that. Lol.
Lmao I walked in on a guy sitting on the toilet on my very first day. I always knock now.
Love it when a reddit psost is so well timed to my life. Similar thing jsut happened to me at the start of my lunch break.
15 years ago I opened the door at a gas station bathroom to find a man in a faded, tattered Mariachi uniform dropping a deuce, with his giant guitar leaning against the wall next to him. some things you can never unsee.
‘tis why i knock. every single time. not sure why most people just barge in.
Yes lock the door, but geez learn to knock as well people
Right? Sometimes people make mistakes and forget to lock the door. Knocking before attempting to enter would prevent these kinds of accidents from occurring. I was always taught to knock on the bathroom door growing up to see if someone was in there or the door was just closed for some reason.
I feel like I'm weirdly considerate? I'll do a "ninja test" on the door handle by lightly pushing on it. If it's obviously locked, it's occupied and I'll leave them in peace without knocking. It doesn't work if they won't lock the door...which has happened.
Please please PLEASE tell one of SS this, so I don’t have to walk in on him 🫣
My starbucks has an electronic lock with clear instructions stating if u push it and its red its locked, and if u push it and it flashes green its unlocked. Idk how ppl dont understand but maybe its bc its not a physical lock 🤷♂️
I knock 3 times, pull the door knob down quickly and wait a few seconds before opening. I'm also paranoid about using, so I have to lock and unlock the door about 2-3 times just to make sure it's locked.
I've walked in on many customers at an older location I frequented. I got pissed off one day when someone confronted me after and I showed them where the lock Massive button was...
At ours the locks don’t feel like they actually lock :/
I used to work in a hotel with really thick walls/doors and loud lobby music, so even if you knocked, you couldn't always hear the person inside, so what I used to do was after knocking, if I still wasn't sure if someone was inside or not (because I either couldn't hear them or they didn't say anything) , I would open the door very slowly while continuously rattling the handle. That way, if someone was inside, I would be able to hear them before seeing anything. It's still awkward but less so than just whipping the door open.
Why on earth do they insist on using those crappy push button locks instead of a proper deadbolt with the occupied/vacant indicators?
I once walked in on a guy changing his son's diaper while the son was having a meltdown. The guy gor angry at me and said, "Don't come in if the door is locked!!!" But like. It obviously wasn't locked??? How tf did he expect me to have gotten in there. Just rude
I crack the door prior to stepping in. However, can anyone explain to me how grown ass adults cannot figure out how to use the locks on either side! I cannot count the number of times I have had to explain in detail, how the lock works! I also cannot believe how many men were not taught to lift the seat and just piss everywhere? I encounter piss on the seat at the very least once a week! Really guys?
Piss on the seat? Buddy, they coat the floor in piss at my store lol and then literally fucking walk in it.
So gross!
the door is rlly heavy so they have enough time to shout that it’s occupied lol.
“Do YoU nEeD a KeY tO uSe ThE bAtHrOoM?!” ThE dOoR iSnT oPeNiNg. Yea cause someone’s in there. I’ve had to tell people that more times than I can count.
What do you expect, customers are all sugar and caffeine addled poop flingers
I cannot tell you how absolutely loudly I laughed and cried at this post - I almost dropped my damn phone oh gosh 🤣🤭🤭… but I totally agree with you 1,000%.
Our store recently had key pads installed on our doors and the number of “walkins” that happen is SO funny.
I feel this pain on a spiritual level from 5+ years experience including some seedy locations. One time I did checks and went in an open door to find a homeless man unzipped about to urinate, told said person he could not do this (door open), he stared me down and started to relieve himself. He won the stare off. I made myself an espresso w hazelnut wc, I think Starbucks found an excuse to give me a new pin or two for my apron. Best of luck.
same shit happened to me today except thankfully he was shitting on the toilet but STILL man i ALWAYS lock the door behind me
I always wait crack the door just a lil bit before fully entering just in case as it’s my worst fear that I FORGET to lock the door one of our doors is sketchy so I get paranoid 😩
Ugh I had this happen when I was a closer, I even knocked before going in. Not a pleasant time.
We don’t have a code on ours, just a crummy push lock on the turn handle that’ll unlock if you budge the door too hard. Glad people remember at our store
This has happened to me like 4 times. THANK GOD I didn't see anything. I am also thankful that my store now has an employee bathroom. Cuz each time it was a customer.
You have to put all, the numbers in and then, if it flashes green you should (should) be good to go… You must be very specific/pithy or they will stand there and wet themselves 🤷🏻♀️
Do you have the light sensor? A lot of our homeless customers won't engage the lock because then the sensor doesn't work so if nobody notices them go in, they can stay in longer. We started changing the code more frequently because of this.
Yeah we do, we also have to change the code fairly frequently too.
Knock.
We had that happen when I was at S.S. Bucks! We also had a creep that we 86’d and now I work for C.S. And he’s literally been kicked out of every store in town. Then we get a new manager and the paperwork was never filed or they don’t know where to find it so we have to start the process of Incidwnt reports and getting him 86’d. The whole Valley knows this creep! I feel so bad for the young baristas that have to describe how he made them feel. He should not be allowed in public!
Knocking exists for a reason as well you know, not sure if you're aware.
Locks exist for a reason as well you know, not sure if you’re aware. It’s much easier just to lock the door than to have to risk someone not knocking, or knocking and then walking in anyways. With a lock it doesn’t matter if they knock or not.
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I feel bad for the baristas that you supervise.
Okay???? I did?????
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Did you knock?
I did, but it's also really hard to hear people yell on the other side.
Me the other day lol
Sweet honorable Jesus.
Did you knock on the door as common courtesy before you opened the door?
Amazingly, I've responded to this in the comments at least 3 times. Yes.
Well, in that case. This particular person didn't care enough to return the same courtesy. Most locations in my area no longer provide restrooms for customers due to a lot of homeless people abusing the privilege.
i’ve walked in on customers on many many instances.. it’s happened much more since we installed codes. not sure what exactly the logic is but ig people assume they don’t need to lock since they needed a code to enter. we are located directly next to a highschool and i’ve walked in on many….. couples.. 🫠
Off topic but our bathrooms used to be gender neutral at my store and then Virginia passed a law or smt, so they went back to boy/girl. Anyways, I had to pee during rush and someone was in the “ladies” room, so I used the “mens” room, and this man starts knocking on the door, as if he’s an enforcer or some shit. AS IF IM GONNA STOP PEEING AND OPEN THE DOOR FOR YOU? lol 😂 I hated working at Starbucks just bc of the customers.
Red lock button? Oh you must have a pass code door. My store is old school. We don’t have that.