Imagine working at a company where there’s an office and a warehouse, and there’s a separate restroom in each location. Would you be upset if instead of their being a men’s restroom and a women’s restroom there were just one shared restroom in the warehouse?

In this story, multiple women in this exact situation are pretty upset, but their manager has several reasons why he thinks they have nothing to complain about.

Keep reading for all the details.

AITA for making all of my laborers share a restroom regardless of gender?

I am an operations manager for a busy distribution center.

We recently had new offices built and the construction plans called for one restroom for the production/warehouse employees and one for the office staff.

The restrooms are in different parts of the building.

The female employees are upset.

A few of the women on my production staff have gotten ticked off over the new accommodations and are demanding to use the office restroom because they “don’t want to share with the men.”

My response has been absolutely not.

My reasoning is this.

He has multiple reasons why he refuses to listen to the women.

First, I don’t want nasty boots tromping all over the brand new carpet of the offices. Sometimes we have clients in there.

Second, we are partially a production facility and the extended walk to the other bathroom negatively impacts productivity.

Third, the bathroom only allows the use of one person at a time and the door locks. There should be no privacy issue unless someone doesn’t lock the door.

I’ve been told by my office manager that I’m being a robot about it and thinking too logically. Am I the jerk here?

As a woman, I can understand not wanting to have to share a restroom with men; however, since only one person uses the restroom at a time, does he have a point?

Let’s see how Reddit feels about this situation.

The bathroom needs to be cleaned frequently.

Maybe he should pay a visit to the bathroom the women are complaining about.

Cleanliness is probably the real problem.

It really does seem like they’d need more than one bathroom per area.

It probably stinks in there too.

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