Why it would benefit work financially to provide me with a personal bathroom:

The long-term financial benefits to my place of work by providing with a personal bathroom are potentially astronomical. Let me explain.

Our current washroom set-up is as follows: a girls bathroom with 4 stalls and a separate single bathroom with a shower and no lock. The girls room is closer than the separate bathroom, which is at the end of a dead end hallway.

Now, I am completely comfortable with urinating in a stall and running into coworkers in the washroom and striking up light conversation while we stand and wash our hands for five minutes. I am comfortable with hearing other people use the washroom and even using the washroom at the same time as each other. I am NOT comfortable with any other sort of evacuation that takes place in a washroom stall. I suffer from shit-breakitis. I must be at home, the conditions must be right..... I basically have to light candles and set mood music.

This would all be fine if I didn't have the fortune of a speedy and thorough digestive system and misfortune of an incredibly sensitive stomach. Which means that most work days, I have 'to go.' Clearly, my shit-breakitis rules out the women's washroom. People understand up until this point of my issue. So they then suggest that I use the single washroom. Here is where the shit-breakitis solidifies.

If I walk to the single bathroom, people can/will see that I've bypassed the women's washroom. The only other place to go after the women's washroom, IS the single washroom. Since I work with intelligent people, they will surmise that I'm going to use the single washroom. Since I often see people in the women's washroom when I need to urinate, they know I don't have issue with urinating in the women's washroom. Again, smart people, they will figure out what I'm about to do. So, I cannot go in the single washroom either.

My physical digestive issues coupled with my personal hang-ups mean that I cramp, hold and bloat for a good portion of many days at work. Staying in any position for a prolonged amount of time only intensifies these feelings. So I'm up and down up and down from my seat. I can't concentrate on any task for a decent amount of time. I can't stay late and avoid end of day meetings because I have to rush home to my personal eradication retreat. My work productivity pretty much goes down the toilet (yuck yuck yuck).

The only solution to this draining problem is by having a personal bathroom at work. This way, people will not ever know what I'm doing in there at any given time. I will have the luxury of relieving myself and returning to my desk to buckle down. It's a no-brainer - my productivity would increase significantly. Therefore, it would be in my organizations best interest to provide me with my own personal bathroom.