Communal showers at work.

Aguila

Here's the dilema. There's a single shower at work with its own little changing room, the flow is pitiful though. Otherwise there's a bank of 3 showers with proper power shower style force. Most of the time you're the only one there so not an issue but given this fact I'm never sure what the best thing to do is if someone is there already, wait a few mins and have it to yourself or just get in there?? Either could conceivably offend the guy already in there.

It's like school PE all over again! Vote + comments!

Cafewanda

Consider it team bonding and offer to wash his back

Deadeye Duck

I don't know if you're male of female, but can only see a problem if you're female and there's a guy in the communal showers already. I'm going to assume you're male.

MTFU. If you're worried about offending him, ask him if he minds you using the shower, or would he prefer you to wait untill he's finished. If he wants you to wait then problem solved, you're no longer feeling insecure, he is. If he doesn't mind, get yourself in there and showered. I'm sure he doesn't want to look at you naked, just as much as you don't want to look at him.

Aguila

My employer is pretty forward thinking but they draw the line at mixed communal showers! I've just been hopping in but you can sense the discomfort, generated mainly by the fact that it is unusual to have to share IMO. The other weird thing is that although the shower has 3 spots there is a curtain you pull across the entrance when you get in which adds to the dont come in vibe.

Deadeye Duck

I'd still say, just ask whoever else is using it, if they mind you using it at the same time, because you 'feel an uncomfortable vibe' when you share. Respect their decision, and the problem is solved either way.

R_T_A

I understand where you're coming from, but it's a bit like what to do with three urinals and one person standing on the far right.

Just say hi - do they mind, and then get the reaction. Just don't playfully flick him with a wet towel, and I'm sure everything will be fine.

Roastie

I voted for the last - only because you'll get used to the discomfort of using the prison style showers, but the misery of trhe dribbly shower is forever.

biondino

Communal showers at work is the worst idea EVER.

tarquin_foxglove

biondino wrote:

Communal showers at work is the worst idea EVER.

My old work had refurbed their communal showers and some genius had installed a central pole with 4 shower heads coming off that.

So if someone was already using it you had to decide do I want to shower stood right next to them or stood opposite making eye contact?

A difficult decision but not having a shower wasn't an option.

Roastie

I had a really uncomfortable moment: We have a running club at work, and my boss is also an avid runner. We'd just run a race and so ended up in the showers at the same time. Fortunately we have separate cubicles, but getting dressed afterwards on the benches was fairly uncomfortable - not relaxing to chat to your boss while attempting to get dressed!

fungus_the_muffin_man

Christ are you all worried you'll bend over for the soap and end up a ruined man? Its a communal shower get undressed and get in there. I wouldn't even ask permission. We're men, we've been conditioned into doing this from school, into communal showers at the baths. Do you think all those footie teams etc.... queue up in a nice orderly line waiting their turn ? Do they f**k. Grow some balls the lot of you!

Aguila

Fungus The Muffin Man wrote:

Christ are you all worried you'll bend over for the soap and end up a ruined man? Its a communal shower get undressed and get in there. I wouldn't even ask permission. We're men, we've been conditioned into doing this from school, into communal showers at the baths. Do you think all those footie teams etc.... queue up in a nice orderly line waiting their turn ? Do they f**k. Grow some balls the lot of you!

Is it unusual to feel a bit uncomfortable naked with other people you know, I think not. I will continue using the communal ones but there's little doubt I'd choose a single one if the shower was equally good.

blu3cat

Do you work in a prison?

Specialized Needs

Fungus The Muffin Man wrote:

Christ are you all worried you'll bend over for the soap and end up a ruined man? Its a communal shower get undressed and get in there. I wouldn't even ask permission. We're men, we've been conditioned into doing this from school, into communal showers at the baths. Do you think all those footie teams etc.... queue up in a nice orderly line waiting their turn ? Do they f**k. Grow some balls the lot of you!

It seems to me that the issue here is not the sharing as such - it is, as I understand it, that Aguila is leaving a single shower all empty in preference to entering an already-in-use shower to share with a colleague. I'm sure if both showers were in use Aguila would have less worry about sharing the communal 3-bay shower.

Of course, I may be misinterpreting.

Stuart

fidbod

Its been said already but MTFU!

fungus_the_muffin_man

Aguila wrote:

Fungus The Muffin Man wrote:

Christ are you all worried you'll bend over for the soap and end up a ruined man? Its a communal shower get undressed and get in there. I wouldn't even ask permission. We're men, we've been conditioned into doing this from school, into communal showers at the baths. Do you think all those footie teams etc.... queue up in a nice orderly line waiting their turn ? Do they f**k. Grow some balls the lot of you!

Is it unusual to feel a bit uncomfortable naked with other people you know, I think not. I will continue using the communal ones but there's little doubt I'd choose a single one if the shower was equally good.

Yet you don't mind getting the old fella out in a packed mens toilets to have a wee? The main point is not that we don't like being seen naked its the possibilty of people looking at our todgers which is the problem. Yet when we need a wee we'll get the old fella out virtually anywhere and not worry to much about it getting seen :roll:

Hey Jax

biondino wrote:

Communal showers at work is the worst idea EVER.

well its way better than no shower at all.. MTFU and get in there!!

Aguila

Yet you don't mind getting the old fella out in a packed mens toilets to have a wee? The main point is not that we don't like being seen naked its the possibilty of people looking at our todgers which is the problem. Yet when we need a wee we'll get the old fella out virtually anywhere and not worry to much about it getting seen :roll:[/quote]

Not the same at all. Perhaps your method of weeing differs from mine but I remain fully clothed in mens toilets. Plus people are often self concious for other reasons: scars, birthmarks etc.

biondino

Fungus The Muffin Man wrote:

Aguila wrote:

Fungus The Muffin Man wrote:

Christ are you all worried you'll bend over for the soap and end up a ruined man? Its a communal shower get undressed and get in there. I wouldn't even ask permission. We're men, we've been conditioned into doing this from school, into communal showers at the baths. Do you think all those footie teams etc.... queue up in a nice orderly line waiting their turn ? Do they f**k. Grow some balls the lot of you!

Is it unusual to feel a bit uncomfortable naked with other people you know, I think not. I will continue using the communal ones but there's little doubt I'd choose a single one if the shower was equally good.

Yet you don't mind getting the old fella out in a packed mens toilets to have a wee? The main point is not that we don't like being seen naked its the possibilty of people looking at our todgers which is the problem. Yet when we need a wee we'll get the old fella out virtually anywhere and not worry to much about it getting seen :roll:

You are wrong about everything in this post

Harrid

Plus people are often self concious for other reasons: scars, birthmarks etc.

... wee cocks

always_tyred

Are you planning on doing anything in the show that might require total privacy?

Agent57

I'd be reluctant to use a communal shower. TBH, the fact that I shave like a porn star is between my wife and I. :shock:

King Donut

You're being a bit sensitive here! There are 3 showers there so why should you ask?!

A colleague of mine always wears his pants in to the communal showers which makes me more uncomfortable than if he was naked.

fungus_the_muffin_man

I can sum it up in 2 words

Penis Envy!

biondino

Exactly. I wouldn't want to inflict that on anyone.

vorsprung

A shower of any sort, communal, private, powered by a hosepipe in the garden would be welcome.
There's a nice loo with a sink and that's it here

Aguila

Always Tyred wrote:

Are you planning on doing anything in the show that might require total privacy?

I wasn't planning on putting on any kind of show.

biondino

The bottom line is that my relationship with my colleagues is one where neither party gets to see the other naked. Whether that's in the shower, the bedroom or the body cavity search dungeon at Gatwick airport, it's not on.

robmanic1

biondino wrote:

The bottom line is that my relationship with my colleagues is one where neither party gets to see the other naked. Whether that's in the shower, the bedroom or the body cavity search dungeon at Gatwick airport, it's not on.

He, he, see what you did.....

cee

Its just like at a lot of gyms then....

except without the urinating on the person next to you

Levi_501

Just do not pick up the soap




Sorry, :oops: