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Back in the 50s and 60s there was a service station on every American corner. All stations had public restrooms. You only need travel a couple of blocks to find another public toilet. Needing a bathroom quickly was never an issue back then.
It's different today. You have to find a fast food place, and those most always are distances apart and not in the rural areas unless it's a town. Many businesses won't let you use their restroom unless you're a customer.
I was in a thrift store that caters to busloads of seniors on walkers and canes. It had a sign on the front door, "Bathrooms are for employees Only". That's rude if you ask me.
Maybe this in only in New York State? What are other states like? Maybe those who are more horrified by the Amazon employee's behavior have better access to public restrooms?
I owned a retail store.
Government regulations prohibit you allowing the public into the restrooms unless you meet the government criteria which is not financially feasible for many small business owners. Or even many business locations which aren't set up for that.
For example, NO I am NOT going to remodel my rest rooms to make them handicap accessible. And NO I am NOT going to hire extra people or pay extra hours to clean up after people's filthy habits. And NO, I'm not going to manage the waiting line and all that other nonsense that goes on, AND the potential for theft. And NO I am not going to pay people to escort the public down the hall, through the merchandise storage room, and back to the "employees only" area for a half hour.
Maybe employees who have gi issues better not get those types of jobs or stay home if they're sick.
I worked for the phone company and you get assigned breaks and that's IT. If you have an illness, it's all taken into consideration in the big picture of your performance and behaviors but you definitely can NOT regularly get away with that claim on a regular basis to shut down your phones and go to the restroom. No absence or tardiness is tolerated, either.
If you're too sick to work your shift, go HOME and you'll address your attendance later.
It's stated in the HIRING guidelines in the very beginning of the hiring process.
BTW, I moved quite a bit the past ten years and it's SHOCKING how many moving men show up at 8 am and ask to use my bathroom. NO, you can go down the street to Publix.
ORGANIZE your morning, better, jeeze.
OTOH, I have an HVAC service where they're not even allowed to accept water. They have to carry it on the truck.
Somebody write a program that is synced to the driver's uniform.
It alerts the drone when the uniform is unfastened and establishes contact with the driver to access the situation and is at the ready with a scoop and hazardous waste container to show up in a moments notice!
Apply for a utility patent, then bring it to the Shark Tank!
Employees in those type of jobs, as well as everybody else should be prepared for situations like this and have them in your trunk.
At least poop in a container that has a lid, or even on flattened cardboard or a newspaper, bring the ends together at the center to make it a tote, then put that in a trash bag or container with a lid.
If disposing of it properly is a little to much work however, have a fancy pre-wrapped gift box, wherein the lid is wrapped separate from the box, like they do in Movies/TV, at the ready.
Do your business inside, put on the lid with the bow already fastened on top with an envelope that has 27th Anniversary Gift boldly written on it.
Leave it on your front seat with a window open just enough so a thief can slip their hand inside to release the lock.
The thief steals the box and opens it later to reveal the customary gift for a 27th anniversary...a sculpture!
With what? What if you don't have anything to pick it up with? If you "pick it up", what then? You'd need a plastic bag to store it. Do you carry those in your pocket or purse while working? I don't.
Even if you do have a plastic bag in which to carry it, then what? It's going to stink until you find time to dump it somewhere. You're at work. Meanwhile, you're on a time schedule with deliveries to make. You can't just toss the plastic bag into any outside store trash bin. If you carry it into a store bathroom, then what? You can't flush the plastic bag, only the contents. What do you do with the empty bag?
Just think things through. Please.
Everyone has at some point in their life had the overwhelming urge to poop immediately. Rather than fouling someones property like an animal, most of us manage to find a toilet or somewhere private to relieve ourselves. We make use of our sphincter muscle & hold on.
This driver had a van & could quite easily have found a box, paper or a plastic bag to open his bowels in private.
And yes, as a matter-of-fact I do have a plastic bag in my pocket as we speak. You see, my DOG has the filthy habit of laying a dump in public whenever the urge strikes him. He's a big dog & he lays whoppers. And I'm one of those types, who you'd probably consider strange, who actually picks up after his dog. AND I carry it home & put it in the garbage.
Just think things through. Please. If we all just squatted & layed a log whenever the urge struck, our streets would look like a filthy, uncivilised 3rd world country with rampant disease, like the place from which the driver probably originated.
Is she going to think its acceptable to just walk into someone's house and use their bathroom? If she sees nothing wrong with going outside on the street, then she's going to have no problem wandering around people's houses looking for their bathrooms.
You think that someone like this knows how to use a bathroom?
Nature called. He was in the city, not close to a toilet. Needed to hurry to get back to work
No news here
Maybe that’s ok & typical where you live, but it’s not acceptable in most of the U.S! I lived in Chicago where it is filthy and people didn’t do that kind of thing there!
Nature called. He was in the city, not close to a toilet. Needed to hurry to get back to work
Since she was in a city, I doubt she was more than a mile away from a gas station, grocery store, fast food restaurant, or some other building with public restrooms.
I live in my van and usually use public-restrooms for BMs. But I do keep a good plastic-bag for emergencies.....it is not that hard.
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