Advice from Judith Martin, Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin.
I work in an office with around 30 people. There are several bathrooms available to the staff, and I have used all of them at one time or another.
Is it not common courtesy to knock before attempting to open a single-occupancy bathroom? I do this even at home, and definitely when entering a public restroom.Not that Miss Manners would excuse bad manners on that account. But for your colleagues to assume that the stall is empty and that they can therefore go ahead and open the door does not strike her as callous. Merely expedient.
Wait -- Miss Manners just realized that that is what you could have said. Club members can make rules with consequences for violations, but they cannot randomly scold one another.
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