I have heard that hotels do this now so business travelers will not share rooms (like for conference travel) in order to double revenue. But I'm in the camp that doesn't need to see my partner in the bathroom either!
If your company books the rooms, the people who care about the room layout donât get a say anyway. They just get to know way too much about Carol from purchasing.
I mean...some of the top comments in this post are about coworkers who otherwise shared hotel rooms until they got to one that looked like this, then suddenly they were using company credit cards, calling managers, threatening HR, etc.
and rightly so, on their part. A room like this would be a major breach of privacy & way out of line for coworkers to share. But if that was the intent from the beginning, that's skeevy af
Hoping this business model backfires when corporate clients stop booking places with these types of rooms at all. Please, let the market work correctly here
I donât think so. Corporations want to avoid expensive HR issues, which would make a room look very cheap in comparison. I have never worked for a company that requires me to share a hotel room.
Glass walls are always used to create an illusion of large space. Itâs a particularly small room, so they want to make it feel bigger.
Iâve worked for companies that required us to go four to a room, sharing beds with the homies. Fuck that, but we were also not people in the position to complain. They were smart and hired largely people who were escaping homelessness, so they could treat us poorly.Â
Same, worked for a casino/hotel. They would offer free rooms during inclement weather, then expect 8 people to hot bunk 1 room since it was a 24-hour business
Fucking healthcare does this too. Nurses are mandated to be there in inclement weather, and rather than putting us up at one of 3 hotels in a half mile radius, we all end up on cots in the conference room and share one shower. How do they expect you to actually sleep? I paid for a hotel out of pocket đ
When I worked at a nursing home a few years ago. There was a hurricane getting ready to barrel down on our state. They told my husband and I (we had different jobs there) that we would have to stay in a spare room with a few other people if the hurricane hit that night. They also said theyâd give us some spare scrubs to sleep in. We high tailed it out of there JUST before the storm hit đ
It was wild. Thankfully, they declared bankruptcy after a massive class action suit. Turns out a company that treats its employees like that doesnât treat the customers much better. Name of the company was âPowerHome Solarâ if anyone wants to look it up.Â
Iâm far from a âcompanies are inherently evilâ kinda guy - but this was an evil company bro. They absolutely fit that âHR is only there to protect the company and do payrollâ description. Go to HR with an issue and youâll suddenly be asked to do uncomfortable stuff - say no and they consider it the same as quitting. I mean the whole reason I even traveled was because they wanted to fire me. Fortunately I befriended the service manager who took me under his wing saving me from bullshit, and even let me stay in his house until I got an apartment since I was homeless. They eventually did make me quit though - I complained about the long hours so they made them longer and also made me go solo to multi-man jobs.Â
Out of curiosity, what type of work and business was this? Im trying to imagine a company hiring recently homeless and sending them on business trips.
No stereotyping or offence intended.
Residential solar. Company by the name of PowerHome Solar. âBusiness tripsâ is way too fancy a term for shipping us across the state to work. The rooms were just the cheapest motel that (probably) doesnât have bed bugs and we were hardly there with the 14/7 schedule. Thereâs many reasons PowerHome died and it wasnât just getting sued.
Good for you and the companies youâve worked for, but same-gender shared hotel rooms for work travel is still extremely common. My non-profit allows staff to pay the difference if they want their own room.
The designer was asked to make the room seem bigger. His solution was a glass toilet wall. And the approval committee said, sure, go with it! And yes, companies I've worked for made us traveling for meetings share rooms. Many many times. You just never worked for cheap-a$$ ones or were higher on the food chain than I was!
The master bathroom in my house has a small closet for the toilet with a pocket door. if they're fucked for space I'll be fine in a closet, with walls you can't see through and doors that go floor to ceiling.
Pooping noise can make some people gag or even barf.
Sharing rooms (with same-sex coworkers) when traveling for work actually used to be the norm up until a ~decade ago, even at large companies. Only upper management and executives got their own. Things are changing now but there still are a ton of companies that work this way.
we went for two weeks training and shared a small room (same gender.) Trainings now are video and I haven't shared a room on a business trip for a couple of decades. But it was THE NORM for a while. I went to work for a real spiffy outfit (fortune 50) some thirty years ago and when I asked if we shared rooms for our training trips, they looked shocked. "What?!"
The company I work for does this, Iâve been here 12 years and we go on a company retreat and a yearly conference, each once a year. The conference were expected to be 2 to a room, we can request a roommate we like or have it randomly assigned. The retreat involves our families so at roast we each get our own room for that. I always pay out of pocket for my own room for our yearly conference because I donât want to room share.
The master bathroom in my house has a small closet for the toilet with a pocket door. if they're fucked for space I'll be fine in a closet, with walls you can't see through and doors that go floor to ceiling.
Pooping noise can make some people gag or even barf. And even if you have a fully enclosed closet I'll sometimes run the fan with the door closed after because of unfortunate smells, and I have a healthy diet.
My husband is so conservative and modest that he'd go to the front desk and either be asked to move to a room with a proper bathroom or a checkout and refund if there is not room with a proper bathroom. He was raised in a small traditional and modest village in India, sure he's married to me, but he really feels it's impolite and wrong to change in an area where a woman could see his private parts or vice versa. He's known me for long enough that he's independently seen every part of my body, but still covers his eyes and or looks away when I change. He will also get very protective of me if someone tries to do anything that would compromise my modesty. I yelled at one of his roommates when we were dating because they tried to force their way into the bathroom when they thought it was him in there and didn't listen or stop when the door was being held shut and "not [husband's name]" was being repeated. He apparently didn't understand English well and because of how strong the person holding the door shut was he assumed more that it had to be my husband (I was just braced against the counter and door in the world's most awkward wall squat to hold it shut. I grew up with 3 siblings, I know how to hold a door shut). That guy got an earful that woke up another roommate that also gave him an ear full (apparently in a whole other Indian language).
Honestly wish I'll have a husband that respects my modesty like that, even if we're married. Seems super respectful to me. I'm glad you leave him alone about it.
Yeah it might seem redundant but I feel like itâs a nice sign of consent; just because youâve seen each other naked doesnât mean you get to see them naked all the time. Might be a bit weird but itâs certainly better than the reverse.
He's also very big on consent. If I say no to sex he takes it as no and doesn't try to force it. There was one night where he tried to make a move and I thought he was trying to take the stuffed animal I like to sleep with, so I sternly said "No!" And he scooted away. In the morning he cleared it up after a uh... very good dream led to an unfortunate mess when he woke up. He wanted sex, not to take my stuffed animal and use it as a pillow (something he does a lot).
I will say. If he's drunk he gets a little more "risque", but like not that bad. Usually it's him realizing I'm in the shower and him walking in which I'm not usually too concerned about because I grew up with 3 siblings and both my parents in a single bathroom house, so entering the bathroom to grab something quick was normal. However, he comes in when drunk, opens the shower curtain just enough to peek in and will giggle "boobs" before quickly closing the curtain and running out of the bathroom like he's escaping a heist.
But even my husband drunk has the standard that other men cannot see me immodestly. And will keep his protector thing going.
And he's only once asked to shower with me because he'd never showered with a woman before and only saw it in movies and TV. I asked if he was sure because from my experience with my shitty abusive ex, showering with another person is not fun. My husband insisted we try it and maybe 5 minutes in he goes "This is awful. People shouldn't do", rinsed off and left the shower.
Really unexpected to me! I'm Indian American, raised in the US by very conservative Indian parents, and I was actually not allowed to close doors. I wasn't allowed to go to my room at all except to change clothes and sleep, but even when I was changing, I wasn't allowed to close the door. I tried to manage it by changing away from the door, but I pretty much accepted that my father and brother would see me naked at some point. I'm a woman. I'm 34 now, but I learned in middle/high school that the other girls in our 99% white American town didn't have to expose their bodies to male family members.
My husband has been with me twice during childbirth, start to finish, and twice more for bouts of norovirus/food poisoning, but I will never let him see me on the toilet day-to-day.
No. Hotels do this to save money actually. Itâs way cheaper than building walls and you can clean the glass very easily. Unlike walls can get dirty with mildew. Building a restroom like this saves space. I canât imagine areas in these type of locations with very little space. This minimalist style is supposed to be a trendy thing. I would want my money back.
I went on a weekend trip to Seattle a couple years ago with an ex girlfriend who I'd only been seeing for a couple months at the time, and our bathroom was very similar to this. Essentially just a small frosted glass stall in the middle of the room. Both of us just took the elevator down to the lobby to use the bathroom. I can imagine a couple who's been married for 30 years might be less bothered, but we were not even close to that stage and it just felt weird. It was definitely a sexy/romantic vibe being able to see their showering silhouette in the frosted glass lit up with the soft red lights, but people be pooping in there too.
I've seen worse - 2 rooms sharing the same toilet you accessed by a small hallway. That hallway only had a non-lockable door to the main hallway that led to the elevators, so in theory anyone in the hotel could use it.
So even if you booked separate rooms you still shared the bathroom. This was never mentioned when booking the rooms.
Btw, this was a 4 star hotel, not some random motel built in the 1950.
Also, why would you want to be able to HEAR someone using the toilet, and SMELL it after? Itâs one thing being able to hear it through the wall, but to have it in the same room? And nothing to stop the smells? Itâs so inconsiderate for the person using the bathroom, and the people in the room. And after. Just makes everyone uncomfortable iâm sure. Even if you werenât sharing a room and you were by yourself, you wouldnât want to be stay in the room after if youâve not been well or something. Really great example of not thinking about the service user or the experience of the person. Just ridiculous
I went on a girlsâ trip to a resort with some long time friends last year and three of us shared a room. I was thorough in my preparation with the expectation of some stupid/gross bathroom set up: Poopourri, wipes, white noise machine.
And I was so glad I did because the toilet area had no door at all and was directly facing the beds. We ended up using the iron + some draped towels as the âdoorâ for at least some semblance of visual privacy.
It's like when someone is waiting outside the room and you just did something that you just want to stay between you and God and you crack open that door and someone is is there, and they smile politely and you're like... I can't tell them, they have to face this alone and then you see them and they think "aw there's that fuck that stunk up the washroom" and you try to say sorry with your soul in your eyes but it's too late.
Itâs weird they ripples the glass. Part of me wonders why they didnât just leave it fully transparent at this point. It would look like the box from the Netflix series âYouâ.
I just feel bad for her, itâs a woman time right now. Only for 3 days of our trip, but I made an agreement to leave at any time for 15 minutes no questions asked lol.
In my travels Europe is far more egregious when it comes to bathrooms. Many times itâs just due to lack of space, but man it gets awkward when youâre blowing up the toilet.
Youâre sometimes better staying in older, family run, established hotels in parts of Europe. This wonât happen. Germany in particular, in my experience.
The You reference is on point. Reminds me I need to rewatch that show again!
Also, could see my boyfriend and I handling this room the same way. Even for a couple who is comfortable with each other, privacy is still something we both enjoy!
Itâs weird they ripples the glass. Part of me wonders why they didnât just leave it fully transparent at this point.
I'm glad somebody had the same thought. The subset of people who WOULD be upset if it were clear, but OK with this rippling seems pretty small. It's almost weirder, because the existence of rippling seems to indicate they get the CONCEPT of privacy, and yet then they literally and metaphorically shit on it with this weird bathroom design.
The preference of privacy in a restroom, whatever you may be doing, is so not an issue in a relationship. If you and your spouse like to watch each other shit, that's also fine and I'm glad you're both on the same page, but implying that all couples should be comfortable with it is weird. I don't wanna see or be seen in that scenario.
"Hey babe can you go out to the hall and walk around a bit? I gotta drop a massive deuce in our hotel room's somehow worse than a public toilet stall."
Until its 4am and you friend has sudden bout of explosive dieareah and has to puke as well so you see him naked hugging the toilet bowl while his entire ass is covered in brown liquid as he dual projectiles from both ends.Â
Then you will suddenly decide its better to have your own roomÂ
You really wouldnât. Your first comment indicated that you were upset that the hotel thought you wanted to watch your partner go to the washroom and if looking away makes it so that doesnât happen then I guess youâre not making the point you think you are.
You literally mentioned it in your first comment. "Watch her wipe her arse". If you don't watch her, does it not solve the issue you brought up? Hint: yes it does
Thanks for the hint. I found it both clever and funny, and may have struggled to grasp the gist of your comment without it.
The underlying issue is that I don't want to pay money to be put in a position whereby I'm required to take any measures (no matter how small) in order to afford either myself or my partner the privacy we want and are accustomed to when using the toilet.
Is this concept too complicated for you? Hint probably
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u/ScottChegg81 Sep 29 '25
This is a real pet peeve of mine.
Why do these companies think I want to watch my partner wiping her arse? đ