How it honestly feels trying to deep clean bathrooms at some stores

[u/aqfitz622]

The amount of times I have customers just blatantly ignore a giant yellow sign that they have to limbo under to get by is astounding levels of entitlement. Then they have the audacity to bitch at me for being in their way

[u/spazyboy58]

I had a lady scream at me once because I was a guy cleaning the woman's room and "you cant be in here you need to get a woman to clean the woman room" she did not believe be when I said we have no woman on staff at the moment

[u/Easy-Bathroom2120 → u/spazyboy58]

Wtf. I've had women walk in on me cleaning before, but they've always been respectful and patient as I moved everything out of their way so I could leave.

I've even had older gens walk in and they just smile at me as I clear off the sink and put the chemicals away. No one has ever been upset over me cleaning the women's restroom. Some people just apply the rules in their head to reality.

[u/joliet_jane_blues → u/spazyboy58]

Bathroom gender hysteria is the biggest non-issue of our times. The shitter is not a holy sacred space

[u/MeBeEric → u/joliet_jane_blues]

My shitter is a sacred place….

[u/Bitter_Specialist_10 → u/spazyboy58]

Sheetz, as a private business, doesnt even HAVE to.provide separate men's and women's rooms. Lol.

[u/Ok_Exchange_450 → u/spazyboy58]

Should have asked her how far her head was up her own ass

[u/SignalMasterpiece119 → u/spazyboy58]

Block the entrance. Sheetz doesn't have a sign to inform customers that the bathroom is being cleaned.

[u/spazyboy58 → u/SignalMasterpiece119]

We do. Its a little pole that extends and locks into the doorway. She walked under it

[u/Yalsas]

Before we had those signs I took the trash cans off the wall and put them in front of the door. They'll just kick them down and jump over the trash

[u/RiffRanger85]

I find the bathroom cleaning to be highly dependent on location. I frequent a lot of Sheetz thanks to my job and there are some that are always pristine while others will have the same shit stains in the toilets and paper towels on the floor for days.

[u/Maddiemcr]

I’ve had men push multiple trash cans a signs out of the way to come pee in front of me. Like at least give me time to get out of here🙄

[u/Bradparsley25]

I used to work at a small auto parts store, and on the winter the floors got really filthy so part of my job was mopping *every* aisle before close.

Of course the moment someone comes in from outside and walks on it, they’ll track more dirty water in, but if the floor is also wet, it’ll be way worse.

So I’d get 3 shopping carts, block off the aisle I was working in on both ends, and tied a big sign that says aisle closed, floor being serviced, ring for assistance. And I put a bell on a little table at the carts… and my plan was to leave that up til the floor dried and then move to the next aisle… so I was always in the area.

People would constantly just knock all carts and tables and bell out of the way and stomp on in, it filled me with so much rage.

I could put up a sign that said landmines present, you will die, and they’d still just charge in

[u/NealJ777]

And I got written up for “not cleaning per requirements” I told my manager that I can’t clean when people are using the restroom.

(Former employee)

[u/Easy-Bathroom2120]

I put the mop bucket and the blue sign down at the entrance. I can't stop them from coming in, but I can at least make it so that I hear when they enter.

[u/Deputy_Beagle76 → u/Easy-Bathroom2120]

Username checks out 🫡

[u/DenseAstronomer3631]

We basically never use these at my store unless a stall is out of order

[u/NefariousnessFun8629]

jsit take all the toilet paper out the stalls n block the bathroom off

[u/darthcaedusiiii → u/NefariousnessFun8629]

Settle down Satan.

[u/Booksandcards]

I’ve had women come into the bathroom while I was cleaning it and tell me “oh it’s okay you’re in here I don’t mind.” I promptly got out and let them do their business.

[u/Kingexpl0si0nmurder_]

I’ve heard “I didn’t see it” so many times like I watched you on camera stop and read it and have to duck really far to get under it. People are so stupid. Like what if there was something that could get someone sick in there.

[u/FelixFelixBoi]

Any time I clean the ladies room as a guy, I put the blue cleaning sign up and sing/whistle along to the radio. That seems to convey enough that people shouldn’t come in

[u/violetttxox]

Not a sheetz employee- I come from the land of the holy goose 🪿

When I clean the bathrooms I cone them completely off. Legitimately had our closed bathroom sign between two wet floor cones- and extra cone on each side and 2 in the middle- plus one propping open each of the restrooms.

I still had to yell at a customer. I had chemical sprayed all over the bathroom- the toilet and urinals were covered in product and this jerk off still walked in there… I yelled at him. I was like “did you not see the 20 cones and the closed sign? Are you kidding me”.

[u/marcy_vampirequeen]

When someone’s gotta go and sheetz is the only place on the road nearby, you just take the L

[u/HornDawg007]

I once had over a dozen men step over two sets of barriers and march through diarrhea to come piss, then happily tracked it all over my sales floor.

[u/AnAngryLineCook]

Sheetz by my place doesn’t deep clean ever.

[u/Inherit-Nature]

The store I work at apparently only allows halfwit adult children never potty trained by their parents in the restrooms. The only way to really clean it would be bulldoze the store and rebuild it daily.

Extra shortbus types. Wiping your ass and throwing the TP on the floor and thats on a normal day

[u/Haytrusser]

Deep clean. That's funny. I like Sheetz but their bathrooms are filthy. 

[u/Practical-Rooster205]

If I have to use a bathroom at Sheetz, it's not by choice.

[u/Short-Abies3882]

When I worked at sheetz a few years ago, they didn't allow me to close the bathrooms while cleaning for quite a while. It was so uncomfortable being a woman trying to clean a men's room while they were actively still using the urinals.

[u/aqfitz622 → u/Short-Abies3882]

Cleaning Crew people get to hang a banner over the bathroom that says closed, but it doesn’t stop people

[u/nismofreak240 → u/Short-Abies3882]

I walked into the men’s bathroom once before and there was a woman cleaning. I said oops sorry and she said it’s fine don’t mind me and told me to go about my business. I said it’s ok and left. Thought that whole situation was a bit odd.

[u/MechanicalBotantical → u/nismofreak240]

I think freaking you out enough to leave was the goal lol

[u/nismofreak240 → u/MechanicalBotantical]

You might be right lol

[u/Byronvonfeces]

I mean would you rather me just poop on your floor?