Showers At Work

[mgarl10024]

Hi all,

I recently started cycling (March), and before I did I checked out the facilities in work. They were great - 4 unisex showers (1 disabled). You walk into a large changing/locker area, then off of that there are 4 individual rooms with doors (around 2mx3m) containing a shower cubicle. The showers were good too.

However, recently, we've been moved to a different building. The male showers here consist of 4, opaque knee-to-neck glass doored cubicles all in a single room. This hasn't gone down well with a number of people - as at some point you have to get in and out of the showers and change. I mean, if you were at the gym let's say, showering in front of random people, that's fine - but it feels different when it's in front of your colleagues who you then have to sit next to all day.
(What's tended to happen is that there is a single disabled shower in a private room, and the gents largely queue up outside, refusing to use the four showers in the communal room).

It just got me thinking - what facilities do you have in your workplaces, and what would be your attitudes to using communal facilities in front of colleagues?

Thanks,

MG

 

[Murf]

We have 2 buckets in the corner of the room. One for solids and one for liquids...would love the facilities you describe! I'm exaggerating slightly but you seem to have it good in my eyes.

 

[Arch]

We've got a disabled toilet/shower in the building that's bigger than my own bathroom at home!

I don't use it, I'm not one of those who 'needs' to shower after riding in. I don't race, and I cool down for the last bit.

The cubicles don't sound great, but I'd have thought it was possible to at least get into undies inside them, or a big wrap round towel and change under it discretely.

But that assumes you need a shower. Many people simply advocate a wipe down with baby wipes or a flannel, which you could do inside a toilet cubicle, if you really feel it's an issue.

 

[upsidedown]

We've got one shower between about 250 staff on site.

Luckily only 2 of us cycle in.

 

[Jezston]

We have similar to what upsidedown describes except there's also a toilet in ours so my main gripe is waiting outside for 10 minutes to find some sweaty programmer has just deposited last nights 24 inch mega meat chilli death pizza in there making the shower room uninhabitable.

I've asked management to implement a 'no poos before 10am' rule but they don't seem to think it's a big deal. Bah.

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

We've got a leak in the roof in the middle of the warehouse....

 

[potsy]

Recently discovered we DO have a shower,though on closer inspection i don't think I'll bother

manual worker so a bit of sweat is normal anyway,quick change of shirt and a squirt of Lynx Africa and I'm good to go

 

[fossyant]

Any room in the cubicle to take undercrackers and a towel slung over the door ? Dry off, cover your modesty then take advantage of the big unused changing room !!!

We have one shower and a big changing room although you lock the changing room door as the shower doesn't have one. So it's first come first serve. Same on another site.

 

[Paul_L]

We have similar to what upsidedown describes except there's also a toilet in ours so my main gripe is waiting outside for 10 minutes to find some sweaty programmer has just deposited last nights 24 inch mega meat chilli death pizza in there making the shower room uninhabitable.

I've asked management to implement a 'no poos before 10am' rule but they don't seem to think it's a big deal. Bah.

No good for me!

I'm strictly a come to work full, go home empty person!

 

[addictfreak]

Hi all,

I recently started cycling (March), and before I did I checked out the facilities in work. They were great - 4 unisex showers (1 disabled). You walk into a large changing/locker area, then off of that there are 4 individual rooms with doors (around 2mx3m) containing a shower cubicle. The showers were good too.

However, recently, we've been moved to a different building. The male showers here consist of 4, opaque knee-to-neck glass doored cubicles all in a single room. This hasn't gone down well with a number of people - as at some point you have to get in and out of the showers and change. I mean, if you were at the gym let's say, showering in front of random people, that's fine - but it feels different when it's in front of your colleagues who you then have to sit next to all day.
(What's tended to happen is that there is a single disabled shower in a private room, and the gents largely queue up outside, refusing to use the four showers in the communal room).

It just got me thinking - what facilities do you have in your workplaces, and what would be your attitudes to using communal facilities in front of colleagues?

Thanks,

MG

To be honest it always surprises me how many people seem a little shy over communal showers and changing etc. I appreciate we all have different attitudes, but its never been an issue for me:

At school communal showers etc

In the army communal showers etc

In the FRS communal showers etc

It just seems to be something i have grown up with.

 

[Brains]

Our office of about 400 people has:

A locked bike cage for about 30 bikes
As this is now always full they are getting another 30 bike cage

5 large single shower rooms, so you shut the door and get changed, have a shower etc
Fluffy white towells supplied !
Lockers (although not enough, so many keep kit in cupboards all over the office)
Hair Dryer, mirror, shoe rack, small drying area

 

[BSA]

You are lucky my friend, no showers at all here and no where to lock the bike (i sneak it into the server room unofficially). Im lucky its all down hill to work so I dont need to shower.

One of the guys that runs in can normally be found having a strip wash in his under crackers every morning.

 

[Riding in Circles]

No shower here but bike parking is no issue.

 

[BrumJim]

1 shower in the office block. Two of us use it, but not at the same time. No lock on the door, so you have to put your bag against it.

One shower in the Canteen area. Doesn't work.

One shower in the fabrications area. Never been there.

 

[steve52]

comunal showers all the way, if ur embarised your thinking of things other than washing!!! stop it the issues are yours!