So my business partner and I have a small building that we rent as our office. It has four offices and a bathroom upstairs, a mid-level conference room and a few random rooms downstairs on the ground level (kitchen, bathroom, printer/server room, entrance foyer and another small conference room).
We have been here for about 2 years and like it a lot. We decided that we could sublet one of the offices to someone to get about 50% of the rent back. Since our two offices are the big ones on either corner (and the two in the middle are small and never used), we figured it wouldn't cause any problems. We thought wrong.
We rented to an older guy (60s maybe) and we are in our early thirties. He has a consulting business (retired) and spends about 50% of the time out of the office.
Here is the problem. We had kind of an unspoken rule that you take #2s downstairs in the bathroom at the back of the building. When the guy was moving in, we even made a joke about it, trying to let him in on the practice without sounding too weird.
The bathroom upstairs is right in the middle of all of our offices and he is tearing it up every morning. Bad. I know this sounds childish but it is a major issue.
The guy is older and very professional, so it is hard to joke with him about it. Normally I would just call him on it and be done with it, but he isn't the kind of guy to react well to it.
I am not passive aggressive by nature, but this situation has made me that way. I am scared to tell him to take his bowel movements downstairs, but I cannot work like this. I am here posting about it instead of finishing a proposal I need to send later today.
I need a GD gasmask, this is awful.