https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 07 May 2026 07:08:30 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-bathrooms-need-to-pee#post-1117122 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:36:55 +0000 PurplePeony 1117122@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think it's legal, but you could check with your local business licensing &amp; inspections department to be sure. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-bathrooms-need-to-pee#post-1117013 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:08:46 +0000 avivoca 1117013@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think it's legal. But, if you have to pee, you have to pee. I would use the toilet, but I subscribe to the "If it's yellow, it's mellow" mentality at home and would have no problem doing it at work if the water was off like that and I had to stay. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-bathrooms-need-to-pee#post-1117012 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:08:42 +0000 T.H.O.U. 1117012@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Circusbee: I would mention something to them! </p> <p>We actually asked if we could come in for at least an hour to grab our computers so we could work from home (a lot of tight deadlines coming up) and they said no because it was a big hazard. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-bathrooms-need-to-pee#post-1117011 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:08:40 +0000 Smurfette 1117011@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would go home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-bathrooms-need-to-pee#post-1117001 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:05:40 +0000 Circusbee 1117001@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hmm, interesting about the sprinkler system, I didn't think of that! I can't easily work from home, especially not with what I need to accomplish today. I'm hoping my boss at least will dismiss our team early. Crap, now I have to pee... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-bathrooms-need-to-pee#post-1116980 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:59:52 +0000 T.H.O.U. 1116980@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No not legal at all!</p> <p>Also, our building had to have water shut off and they had to send us home because the fire sprinkler system wouldn't work without water and the building would have been a fire hazard!!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-bathrooms-need-to-pee#post-1116972 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:57:55 +0000 Sunshine1810 1116972@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think they need to send you home if there is no water. We had the water go off at work once, and my supervisor said if it wasn't back in a couple hours we could leave. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-bathrooms-need-to-pee#post-1116968 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:56:16 +0000 jill_a55 1116968@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would be out of there! Can you work from home? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-bathrooms-need-to-pee#post-1116963 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:54:47 +0000 Circusbee 1116963@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No porta potties as far as I know... Not sure I would use them if they brought them anyway! </p> <p>This is pretty ridiculous! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-bathrooms-need-to-pee#post-1116940 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:49:35 +0000 looch 1116940@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Are they bringing in porta potties?</p> <p>I have worked in blackouts with generator failures. My assumption is that the highly critical people need to stay and everyone else should have the option to leave. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-bathrooms-need-to-pee#post-1116936 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:49:05 +0000 IRunForFun 1116936@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think they're supposed to send you home if the water gets shut off...but maybe I'm wrong. That seems ridiculous! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-bathrooms-need-to-pee#post-1116931 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:46:53 +0000 Circusbee 1116931@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ok so all morning my office building has been having issues with hot water, water pressure, and toilets. Meaning, no toilets will flush anywhere in the building and there are leaks happening all over the place.</p> <p>We were just now informed that the county is shutting off our water until the problem is fixed (probably tomorrow) and that if we need to use the restroom we must make "other arrangements". Is this legal?? I work in a pretty large office made up of mostly women... So of course no one can shut up about it and that makes me have to pee even more!! I just want to go home! This is going to be hilarious tonight and on Monday, but right now it's pretty horrible! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/multi-purpose-nursery#post-1086220 Fri, 13 Sep 2013 17:45:01 +0000 babycanuck 1086220@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We use our closet in our spare room for an office space. I bought a small desk from Ikea that fits in perfectly and put a small set of 2 drawers + filing cabinet in there. Makes it nice and easy to close the closet doors and hide any insanity. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/multi-purpose-nursery#post-1086125 Fri, 13 Sep 2013 16:44:04 +0000 looch 1086125@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No worries, lol! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/multi-purpose-nursery#post-1080283 Wed, 11 Sep 2013 16:32:20 +0000 LindsayInNY 1080283@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: Yikes! I'm going to pretend I was PMSing when I wrote that ;) Holy b!tch comment from me, LOL! Whoops! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/multi-purpose-nursery#post-1080281 Wed, 11 Sep 2013 16:30:15 +0000 looch 1080281@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love how you thought I was giving you 'tude with my dupe post, lol! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/multi-purpose-nursery#post-1080243 Wed, 11 Sep 2013 16:05:41 +0000 LindsayInNY 1080243@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Haha, looks like I was just as crazy pre-TTC a year ago!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/multi-purpose-nursery#post-274027 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 19:48:56 +0000 pastemoo 274027@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The crib is in the living room--it actually touches the couch. :D<br /> We have a mini crib+ changer combo between the crib and the porch window. The tiny space between the porch window and crib has diaper stuff. The swing is just kind of "out there" in the middle of the living room, and then I reorganized my shelves (the 9 cube ones from Target--two side by side) so the top row is all the baby stuff (clothes: too big, next size, current size, sleep/hats/shoes/robe, burp clothes/swaddling blankets, and a miscellaneous one). On top of the shelves is a basket with blankets and a basket with toys and toiletries.</p> <p>Best part? Our living room is actually a combo living/dining room, and the door to enter our place opens into that room. </p> <p>So...it is totally doable. Like everyone said--be careful of wires. Do not worry about noise. Our kitchen is 1/2 open to the dining/living/nursery room, and I run the disposable during naptime--no big deal. Just make sure you don't "be quiet so you don't wake the baby" and your LO will learn to sleep through anything. If you act quiet around baby all the time, then baby starts to need it to fall asleep. All my friends with kids warned me about this before LO was born. We can now hang out/chat/play music while LO sleeps. We do not watch TV in the living room though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/multi-purpose-nursery#post-217943 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:06:08 +0000 Mommy Finger 217943@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If it makes you feel better, we live in a 1 bedroom condo we can't sell and aren't going to make any changes until next summer. I'm due in November and the baby will sleep in our room until he sleeps through the night and then we'll move him to the random hallway that we have that houses our laundry and one entrance to our bathroom. I'm thinking we'll get a curtain to block out any light. At least that's the plan for now. . . </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/multi-purpose-nursery#post-217766 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:24:47 +0000 Modern Daisy 217766@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't even own a printer since they break constantly and the ink is so expensive and we have a laptop that can easily be moved into the living room during naptime. We use the ipad for the most part anyway! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/multi-purpose-nursery#post-217739 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:05:47 +0000 jedeve 217739@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We might have nursery/guest room. The baby won't come until January after we move to our new place in August. We'll keep all the baby stuff in the guest room, but the crib will be in our bedroom for the first several months. We figure after that the visits will slow down and we'll probably only be in this place for a year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/multi-purpose-nursery#post-217701 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:41:34 +0000 looch 217701@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LindsayInNYC: I posted the same thing twice...my service is spotty right now. Usually I note it dupe post. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/multi-purpose-nursery#post-217684 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:27:31 +0000 LindsayInNY 217684@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs.Jacks - Oops, sorry!! I thought she was telling me there was another post already out there like this! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/multi-purpose-nursery#post-217671 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:16:22 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 217671@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LindsayInNYC: I think she accidentally made a duplicate post and wanted to delete her comment that posted twice :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/multi-purpose-nursery#post-217614 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:34:31 +0000 LindsayInNY 217614@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Looch - Thanks for the input. Not sure the "dupe" comment was really necessary though. I searched the boards for related posts and didn't come across any. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/multi-purpose-nursery#post-217201 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:06:16 +0000 looch 217201@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did this in he beginning, but eventually moved the office outof the nursery. The printer would randomly turn on in the night and the computer made too much noise. Plus, when my son became mobile, the wires were too tempting to him. It was also difficult to use the officedurung naps or bedtime, which was our only quiet time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/multi-purpose-nursery#post-217192 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:02:49 +0000 looch 217192@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Dupe. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/multi-purpose-nursery#post-216654 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:33:18 +0000 LindsayInNY 216654@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I hadn't thought about wires... Our printer is wireless. And I think other computer cords (mouse, speakers, external harddrive) could all be hidden.</p> <p>@ModernDaisy - You lucked out! I might have to keep that in mind and look into installing one (one day...) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/multi-purpose-nursery#post-216647 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:22:55 +0000 Modern Daisy 216647@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh and as far as the wires concern - the desk/changing table we bought holds and hides all the wires and it's right up against the main outlet so a baby wouldn't be able to access any of them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/multi-purpose-nursery#post-216641 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:20:18 +0000 Modern Daisy 216641@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LindsayInNYC: Yup! We wanted to live in a great neighborhood (UWS) so the main sacrifice we made was space. The murphy bed was built in by the previous owners and it's perfect since we never have to move furnture around no matter what the arrangement is. It's 9X9 so the perfect size for a nursery - but when we have guests a pack and play (or crib) can fit in our bedroom. I feel like it's the minimum amount of space we would need to survive semi-comfortably for the next 5ish years! </p>