Right to use bathroom interfered with in Britain

[chequita guevara]

This happens a lot in the US in sweatshops. I know of both garment and food processing factories that do not allow employees to use the bathroom (or if they do, they are clocked and docked). Delta Pride Catfish and Tyson Chicken are two such places where this occurs.

UR, workers in the stockyard slaughterhouses in Chicago used to urinate on the spot. Like everything else, it got mixed in with the sausage.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

That's half-arsed. A real man would just climb onto his desk and perform a straining and tortured bowel evacuation.

Being British, everyone else would pretend it wasn't happening.

[red_jon]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi


So in other words, the British are incapable ofgoverning themselves and needs a group of people from the continent to make adjustments for them?

Pretty much. At least it's stopped us prosecuting gay people for having consentual sex in groups.

What's the plan for America?

[Wezil]

What about those who abuse bathroom breaks as a method of dodging work? Not only is it unfair to the employer but also your fellow workmates.

It's easy to rant and rave about how unfair the employers can be (and they can be), but what about the 'bad' employee?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
UR, workers in the stockyard slaughterhouses in Chicago used to urinate on the spot. Like everything else, it got mixed in with the sausage.

Oh yum, extra nitrogen.

[Shi Huangdi]

Originally posted by Wezil
What about those who abuse bathroom breaks as a method of dodging work? Not only is it unfair to the employer but also your fellow workmates.

It's easy to rant and rave about how unfair the employers can be (and they can be), but what about the 'bad' employee?

As long as it is not extreme, such as taking like a 4 15 minute breaks once a day, I would think employers need not busy themselves in the business of deciding how long is too long in the bathroom?

[Jack_www]

What the hell? Workers get docked pay for just going to the bathroom?? I am just gald that were I work I can go to the bathroom when ever I need to, and no one docks my pay. Allthough I work a public school and I have to use the bathroom the students use, so you can imagine how bad they are.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Wezil
What about those who abuse bathroom breaks as a method of dodging work? Not only is it unfair to the employer but also your fellow workmates.

It's easy to rant and rave about how unfair the employers can be (and they can be), but what about the 'bad' employee?

What the hell?

How you know they are dodging work?

Some people may not be eating enough fibre and so it takes them literally 15 minutes to take a dump or something!

Give 'em a break slave trader!!!

[Dis]

my job involves going from location to location fixing things. Sometimes I am in the bad areas of town like gangland neighborhoods. I'm also in white trash neighborhood. Those bathrooms are beyond disgusting. I like working in the good areas of town

Some of the bathrooms I have been in were so disgusting I didn't even want to take a piss in them.

[Urban Ranger]

Sounds like the kind of management that should only be found in history's trash bins.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Wezil
What about those who abuse bathroom breaks as a method of dodging work? Not only is it unfair to the employer but also your fellow workmates.

It's easy to rant and rave about how unfair the employers can be (and they can be), but what about the 'bad' employee?

It's a fairly simple task to see if a worker's productivity is suffering. Should an employee be taking unreasonable breaks, it will become self-evident in his work output. Then management can reprimand the employee based on an actual loss in quality/quantity of work, not some stupid time limits on going to the bathroom.

Any manager worth his salt wouldn't care how long an employee went to the bathroom, so long as he did his job with the expected level of proficiency. That's called keeping good workplace morale, which is far more important and effective than timing people's ****s.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Oh yum, extra nitrogen.

Better than when you got the sausage the day after some poor slob fainted. Workers did occiasionally disappear while at work. You ought to read Upton Sinclair's classic novel The Jungle. It's about the harsh life of immigrants in America and industrial capitalism, but his depiction of the worker who became sausage had a such an impact on America that the Federal government had to start inspecting meat.

Of course, some folks would like to go back to the days of unregulated mystery meats. Most of us call them idiots, but they like to call themselves Libertarians.

[Urban Ranger]

che,

Sounds like an interesing book I should read some time. Nice backhanded slam against the Libertarians.

[Dis]

in any case they should at least allow one bathroom break per hour with a limit of 10 minutes.

In the U.S. they have what we called "breaks". These aren't just smoking/bullsh!tting breaks. You are to use this time to use the restroom as well. Once you are off break you cannot use the restroom. Although if it was an emergency they would probably make and exception if you are sick and about to vomit. Or explosive diareha

[Chemical Ollie]

Why can't you call thing by their proper names? I have never seen a bath tube in a public bathroom or a bed in the restroom.