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Been working at Home Depot for over three years.

Half a year ago, Home Depot installed code locks to the bathroom doors.

The past couple years, it seems like plenty of retail stores also installed code locks to the doors.

Just today, noticed the Barnes and Noble (used to go there a couple times a week), just installed a code lock to the bathroom door.

Someone at work said that the reason why Home Depot installed a lock on the bathroom door, was b/c some homeless were "bathing in the sink". (which I have never seen. maybe they allegedly did that when I was not there.)

It is legal to say "customers only" or "employees only".

But saying "no homeless" is "socioeconomic discrimination."

Besides, plenty of customers that look homeless, are not homeless. Some homeless do not look homeless.

Things are not always the way they appear.

It is not possible for the employees to know which person is a "customer" versus which one is not a "customer", until after the customer gets a receipt. After customers get receipts, they have large and heavy merchandise on lumber carts and shopping carts. It would not be functional, to require, ask, or expect customers to take entire carts full of paid merchandise, into the bathroom.

The bathrooms are right next to the employee breakroom. The breakroom does not even have a lock on the door. The breakroom door is almost always open. Customers keep inviting themselves into the employee breakroom and demanding the bathroom code.

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Those of you that have worked in buildings that had code locked bathrooms, what were the good and bad parts of code locked bathrooms?

What kind unusual things have other people done, when you were in the bathroom?

What is a better way than the code locked bathrooms, to minimize bad and wrong things from happening?

I'd rather they have the code locks than having to hunt down the person with the restroom key.

They must have massive sinks.

Everywhere I go the washrooms have padlocks. They drive me insane. I have to get the customer service worker to write down the number for me.

Considering the fact that homeless people rarely have enough money to be customers, "Customers Only" keeps the property cleaner and in better repair.This is not about appearances, but about keeping bathrooms clean and intact for the paying customers.Good: Clean facilities in good repair. Bad: ???Engaged in sexual activities, bathed, shot up drugs, threatened violence, vomited, slept.Rounding up homeless people and placing them in residence facilities.

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I agree

At least they have them somewhat accessible.

So many places in Vancouver just close them and don’t let people use them at all, or put out of order signs up. It’s to avoid homeless drug addicts from destroying the place - because some do.

It’s gotten so bad there are hardly any public bathrooms available anywhere. Even Starbucks closed their washrooms during Covid and said it was to prevent spreading Covid and then never reopened them - a place that sells coffee that makes people have to pee won’t let you take a piss!!

I spent a few nights doing a stakeout in an alley last Summer. There’s such a lack of places to pee that even people driving $100k cars pull over to piss in the alleys, then the city sends tanker trucks around to rinse the piss down the gutter once a week or whatever. Ridiculous.

It should be illegal to sell food/drink and not have an open public washroom for people to take a piss and/or wash their hands before they eat. Wtf.

today when i went to safeway for miralax (30 to 60 minute bowel movements five times a day), miralax locked. had to go beg a cashier to please unlock it for me. on the way over, the cashier told me another customer was first. after she unlocked it, she walked the customer to the register. then she unlocked miralax and then walked me to the register.

i use self checkout b/c i do not wanna interact with a cashier. it is easier for me to check it out myself than to interact with a cashier. some cashiers way too emotional and self righteous. but self checkout sometimes "locks up" three times in one transaction and i have to call the cashier. that's more cashier interaction, than at a regular checkout lane, s**t.

it took way too much time and energy to beg a cashier to please unlock the miralax for me. it would've been easier for everyone if i could just get the miralax myself, but, alas, the miralax locked.

Sounds more like a gulag.
How about "Offering the homeless safe refuge"?

I imagine that Barnes and Noble has coded locks so that people like George Costanza don't bring books into the bathroom with them.

Bob Dylan owns more than 6 different homes across the USA and a £3 million Scottish Highland estate. Still people have called the police on him at least two occasions on the suspicion of him being homeless. It's like Americans think being homeless is a crime.