My old manager at the sports bar I worked at lost it on a kitchen guy who clogged up the toilet and filled the air with putrid shit clouds daily before we opened. Us girls were on the hook for cleaning it up and it smelled awful for customers too. Dude had to have IBS or be lactose intolerant and eating bricks of cheese or something.
When I was an IT contractor, my biggest client was a mortgage company. It was all women, and they took their bathrooms seriously. They had 3 individual bathrooms, they were inevitably so clean you could have eaten off the floors, they were warm and smelled good, they always had some kind of spray that wasn't too overwhelming, and the toilet paper must have been quadruple-ply. It was like wiping your ass with a bunny. I was there for probably a half day 3x/week, and I never turned down an opportunity to poop there. It was glorious.
It's possible. But it only happened in the mornings before his shift. I don't remember noticing it if he had a night shift. So unsure if it was medical, food intolerance, or volatile coffee shits. The whole situation could have been handled better. I think the manager lost it because it messed up his bathroom experience more than anything. Not really fair to make your female coworkers unclog your toilet, either.
Employees who take multiple long-as-fuck on-the-clock shit breaks every day (and that is a common occurrence) usually have other things that will necessitate firing them.
I drink a lot less caffeine these days so my bathroom usage has plummeted. I just surf the web at my desk on my phone. Winning.
I’ve never worked in food service, but is it normal to make servers clean the bathrooms? Isn’t there some kind of hazmat regulation around that or something?
Clocks in and takes a dump for 15 mins every single day? 100% yes. It's "shower, shave, shit" Not "Shower, shave, clock in, shit"
We had somebody who would “have to use the bathroom” -fifteen minutes after start of shift -fifteen minutes before and after each break -fifteen minutes before and after lunch -fifteen minutes before end of shift
I don’t know about you, but I can’t just mentally decide when I take a shit. I have to have a cup of coffee first and then I’m ready to rock about 30 minutes later. My first job out of college I worked in the operations/corporate office of a regional bank. I would get there at 8 AM which about when I had to go first thing. Unfortunately one of the SVPs would also need to go at a similar time. There was a week where I would come out of the bathroom and he would be going in. The week started out with a pleasant greeting as we passed each other. By Friday, he had an angry look on his face and barely made eye contact as he went after me for the 5th day in a row. I asked my dad about it and his response was, “Can’t you just be normal for a little bit?”
Yeah, but here’s the thing - were you otherwise good at your job? Because if you do your shit well, then they’ll let you do YOUR shit well. But when somebody’s taking four or five shit breaks a day, and also fucking up every other part of the job…yeah, that shit (those shits) don’t fly.
It's not the dump taking. It's the taking a dump every fucking day right after he clocked in. I told him that his new start time is 8:15am so he can continue to get to work at 8am, crap and then start working (aka, getting paid) at 8:15am. No issues with him being ready to work at 8am after that.
Probably. It was a common enough requirement that no one I worked with (and in my years there, there was a lot of turnover) ever said anything. Welcome to locally owned restaurants in the south. They do whatever until a lawsuit is threatened. Same reason we didn't have an up to code handicap stall until a woman in a wheelchair got stuck in it and needed help from a server to get out.
My boss just fired one of our electricians because he basically felt like he could take as many cigarette breaks whenever he felt like. We have fair and designated break times, no punch clocks, nothing to complain about. My boss is extremely an fast-thinking, fast-talking engineer with a mind-boggling memory and knows everything that goes on in his shop. So, he pro-rated the guy based on the extra time he took off the floor and garnished his paycheque. This guy took offence to that (bad move) and the next thing I heard was “Then how about you just FUCKING GO HOME and steal time there!!!” and fired him on the spot. My boss had every reason to be upset and every right to fire him, it’s not like electricians make minimum wage. Especially since the asshole had been there maybe two weeks and thought he could do what he wanted.
That’s one of the first lessons that teens learn in the food service industry: if you want more breaks, start smoking.
Back in the day when I worked at lowes, I would sometimes have to work a 530am-230pm shift and it was brutal. I hated that job and hated getting up that early even more. The good thing was that we weren’t closely supervised during the day. So I would stop at Dunkin’ on the way in and get a massive iced coffee. I would chug it and essentially give myself the shits for the better part of the of the morning. By the time I felt better, it was probably close to noon and finishing time was right around the corner. I would be in and out of bathroom all morning. Probably close to an hour of my time spent.
I worked as a cook years back and it was always the dishwasher that was responsible for the shitters. A side note, as much as I bitched about Wal Mart yesterday, I've got to give credit where it's due... B of A got my new debit card to me today. A little over 24 hours after I reported it, a new one was in my hands. Pretty impressive.