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Urinal dividers at work

I recently got a new job and the men’s room has urinal dividers, much to my consternation. I want to petition HR for their removal, but I’m having a hard time thinking of a legitimate reason for the request, and a professional way to approach it. Any suggestions? I find the whole situation very distressing.

by Anonymousreply 49June 2, 2021 9:03 PM

OP, if you weren't 5'5" you could glance over top of them.

by Anonymousreply 1January 14, 2018 4:39 PM

2/10

by Anonymousreply 2January 14, 2018 4:49 PM

0/10

by Anonymousreply 3January 14, 2018 4:50 PM

Not everyone wants you staring at their cock.

by Anonymousreply 4January 14, 2018 4:55 PM

Boring

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by Anonymousreply 5January 14, 2018 4:56 PM

OP, you’re making this up.

by Anonymousreply 6January 14, 2018 4:58 PM

Tell them you have a disability that requires the dividers be removed. HR will jump right on it.

by Anonymousreply 7January 14, 2018 4:59 PM

Isn't there a drain free of obstruction you could use instead? Americans will always be prudish simpletons, especially HR frauen.

by Anonymousreply 8January 14, 2018 5:04 PM

Tell them you have a "wide arm stance" and need more elbow room.

by Anonymousreply 9January 14, 2018 5:21 PM

It must be terrible for you not being able to ogle other men's cocks whilst you're urinating. Your human rights have definitely been violated here.

Perhaps some dogging after work will relieve the frustration?

Or perhaps just try some actually dogs. The canine variety. That might satisfy you?

by Anonymousreply 10January 14, 2018 5:23 PM

It will only get worse, I'm afraid, what with the hysteria surrounding gender-neutral bathrooms. Soon there will be fully contained room-like stalls. Urinal partitions are but one of the many Jim Crow codes of our time.

by Anonymousreply 11January 14, 2018 5:29 PM

Timothée Chalamet seems to share your frustration OP

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by Anonymousreply 12January 14, 2018 5:31 PM

Waiting for the "This. Never. Happened." troll...

by Anonymousreply 13January 14, 2018 5:33 PM

How can I do my job with dividers?

by Anonymousreply 14January 14, 2018 5:41 PM

You don't have a job.

by Anonymousreply 15January 14, 2018 7:46 PM

This is why they hate us.

by Anonymousreply 16January 14, 2018 7:49 PM

Only tinymeats(under 7) want dividers so OP must be a sizemeat(8+)!

Alternately OP you could select a slow time and go to the T room with a hand drill and make a nice glory hole in one of the stalls!

by Anonymousreply 17January 14, 2018 7:52 PM

Keep the damn dividers. I hate getting sprayed with your urine when you checkout my size meat.

Your little pecker just follows your eyes and whamo. YOUR urine is running down MY pants with your mouth open.

by Anonymousreply 18January 14, 2018 8:06 PM

Gay men are predators.

Straight people are starting to wake up.

by Anonymousreply 19January 14, 2018 8:09 PM

r19 = fish

by Anonymousreply 20January 14, 2018 8:11 PM

Nope, R19, gay men are men.

You really don't think that if straight men and women shared a bathroom that they wouldn't try and peek into the stalls at the women?

by Anonymousreply 21January 14, 2018 8:16 PM

I just whip it out and spray on the floor

by Anonymousreply 22January 14, 2018 8:22 PM

I'm sure some straight men would, R21, and they probably get a thrill watching women wipe their asses or change a tampon. How sexy!

by Anonymousreply 23January 14, 2018 8:25 PM

Cait at R11, it’s already going towards enclosed rooms to be used by either sex in California.

I went to a public bathroom last week in a fast food restaurant where a male had used his dick to gleefully hose down the entire toilet seat, back of the toilet behind the seat, floor and walls. Cleaning a public toilet before I could sit anywhere near it, then trodding through a pool of urine to get to the sink is just what I always wanted.

What an improvement over being able to use a female-only bathroom that doesn’t look like it’s been sprayed with a urine-filled fire hose. Yay trans equality.

BTW, I also noticed in California public bathrooms they have posted detailed diagrams explaining exactly how to wash one’s hands and fingernails, as well as having the hot water already adjusted to pretty hot water. That must be about the flu, it’s getting really bad there.

by Anonymousreply 24January 14, 2018 8:25 PM

Urinal dividers are the death of civilization. I hate them. I hope they never get installed at sports staduims, which are the best places to see a steady steam (no pun intended) of cocks.

by Anonymousreply 25January 14, 2018 9:21 PM

R25 is the reason why gay bashing exists.

by Anonymousreply 26January 14, 2018 9:22 PM

Dividers allow pee shy guys (or guys who aren't comfortable whipping their dicks out) to stay out of the stalls. Keeps stalls 100x cleaner.

As for gender neutral single restrooms, they really should have waterless urinals for the same reason. When they don't, I use a piece of toilet paper to lift the seat while taking a leak.

by Anonymousreply 27January 14, 2018 9:27 PM

lol. Most companies are located in buildings they lease. Often there are multiple companies in the building. HR has nothing to do with this ever. It’s the building management. Just signed lease in a new building. Tiny urinals with no dividers. I’m just waiting for the complaints to start.

by Anonymousreply 28January 14, 2018 9:38 PM

Stupid fetish.

Not a funny troll post. Creative, but not good.

by Anonymousreply 29January 14, 2018 9:44 PM

Much prefer a long trough with an angled mirror above it. That’s more civilized.

by Anonymousreply 30January 14, 2018 9:57 PM

OP, what's your take on shoe mirrors?

by Anonymousreply 31January 14, 2018 9:58 PM

Agree. Op, wear your patent leather Mary Janes to work and buff em up to be really reflective.

by Anonymousreply 32January 14, 2018 10:35 PM

OP those dividers were just installed, your prior employer called your new employer and alerted them to you.

by Anonymousreply 33January 14, 2018 10:42 PM

Our gym has a unisex T room: one stall for non-fish, one for fish, one for handicapped.

If we enter and see the fish stall either about to be occupied, occupied, or recently occupied we flee immediatly to avoid stink-hole odors/sounds/contaminatia!

by Anonymousreply 34January 15, 2018 8:07 AM

OP, Why don't you go in with a Philips screwdriver and unscrew the dividers and throw them out the window?

by Anonymousreply 35January 15, 2018 9:27 AM

eyes rolling... really OP?

by Anonymousreply 36January 15, 2018 9:31 AM

Bump

by Anonymousreply 37June 2, 2021 7:15 PM

I see this as one of the myriad issues of transitioning. IT'S LITERAL VIOLENCE!

by Anonymousreply 38June 2, 2021 7:19 PM

That's why I go into a stall and pee sitting down like a chick.

by Anonymousreply 39June 2, 2021 7:19 PM

“As a non binary, gender queer pansexual, urinal dividers are a reminder of my continuing marginalization and is triggering to my gender dysphoria”.

Say that and they will be removed and you will be promoted to Diversity and Inclusion Chief.

by Anonymousreply 40June 2, 2021 7:21 PM

My college football stadium had (and still has, I think) a round, maybe eight-foot diameter fountain thing where guys stand in front of it and pee. It's basically impossible not to look. I'm not complaining, mind you.

by Anonymousreply 41June 2, 2021 7:38 PM

Straight dudes check out dicks as well. Curiosity is the main reason we see this.

by Anonymousreply 42June 2, 2021 7:51 PM

I’m sure you could needle together a story about how these barriers are oppressive

by Anonymousreply 43June 2, 2021 8:02 PM

R41 I can't even imagine that!

by Anonymousreply 44June 2, 2021 8:13 PM

I miss urinal troughs in gay bar back rooms. Staff would fill them with ice at the beginning of their shift.

by Anonymousreply 45June 2, 2021 8:16 PM

Convincing management to remove those urinal dividers is not going to happen. Ask them to be removed and they will see you as the cock watching little cocksucker you are. But being sympathetic to your situation, my suggestion is to find a way to push the urinal traffic to the stalls and set up a nice glory hole. You will need to be creative and discreet in that respect . Glory holes are just so efficient for this sort of conundrum. But don’t get too hungry or else you’ll blow the whole operation.

by Anonymousreply 46June 2, 2021 8:39 PM

R40 That kind of where my mind was going. "My pronouns are they, and them, and my urinals have no dividers."

by Anonymousreply 47June 2, 2021 8:43 PM

Carry loose change. Drop a coin in front of the urinal. When you lean down to pick up the coin, you can look up from under the divider to check out your target. A similar technique also works in stalls.

by Anonymousreply 48June 2, 2021 8:55 PM

Tell HR about your horrible battles with claustrophobia your entire life and ask that they replace the solid dividers with clear plexiglass ones. Of course, I wouldn't want to be the one who would have to Windex them several times daily.

by Anonymousreply 49June 2, 2021 9:03 PM
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