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How about punishing those who abuse it, instead of making life miserable for EVERY worker? But then again, I suppose you pro-corporate types get more jollies out of punishing as many as possible to show off how powerful you are Each day america gets worse and worse.
If this is the company: Wastewater - Pond Liners - Geomembranes; they pride themselves on contaminate solutions - just don't contaminate their bathrooms! Of course contamination has to go someplace. Like others have already pointed out, if you don't have time, you don't wash your hands. If that is the company; I don't think I would be quick to buy any faucets.
But, on bathroom breaks being abused; it is always a game between management and some lazy employees. Sometimes it isn't laziness - it is just the employees are moon-lighting on other jobs to make ends meet (they are tired - not really an excuse). It doesn't matter whether your talking about bathroom breaks, break breaks or lunch breaks - somebody will push the limits. The company, in turn, will fight back. Many times innocent, hard working, employees will pay the ultimate price for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It could be our laws today and why it is so hard to fire one particular individual?
What about pregnant women or women who are menstruating? Those are situations where you need a lot more bathroom breaks than usual!
Which reminds me.... One summer during college, I worked in a call center. It was hell. Every minute was accounted for. We had to toggle a setting on a time clock to a different setting depending on if we were on an inbound call, a call-back, in a meeting, taking training, had system issues, were mentoring, etc. There was also a setting for bathroom breaks.
Management reviewed this data and would call you out for discrepancies, i.e., if you routinely took twice as long as the rest of your team for the exact same 30 minute team meeting. My manager once called me into his office to chastise me about the fact that once a month, I took twice as many bathroom breaks as usual. Then, he turned pink with embarrassment as he realized exactly what was going on.
I thought this was pretty common in phone rooms, I know the 2 call centers I have worked in throughout my life had this same type of policy, whether it was 2 minutes in between breaks where you could not be available or on the phone or a total of 5 minutes down time outside of breaks they are all very strict on any extra breaks. Which could be the whole reason I have worked a combined 5 months in phone rooms.
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What about pregnant women or women who are menstruating? Those are situations where you need a lot more bathroom breaks than usual!
Which reminds me.... One summer during college, I worked in a call center. It was hell. Every minute was accounted for. We had to toggle a setting on a time clock to a different setting depending on if we were on an inbound call, a call-back, in a meeting, taking training, had system issues, were mentoring, etc. There was also a setting for bathroom breaks.
Management reviewed this data and would call you out for discrepancies, i.e., if you routinely took twice as long as the rest of your team for the exact same 30 minute team meeting. My manager once called me into his office to chastise me about the fact that once a month, I took twice as many bathroom breaks as usual. Then, he turned pink with embarrassment as he realized exactly what was going on.
Exactly what I was thinking!! You can't expect someone who has her monthly visitor only 6 mins a day in the bathroom or women who are expecting especially in third trimester!
Wow - that is insane that you were called out, I'm glad he figured it out though and was embarrassed... he deserved to be!
that policy is meant to weed out women. Older people as well. I'm just curious what the demographics of that workplace actually are. I think the EEOC might have issues with this employer, as the policy clearly targets people of a specific gender and age.
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But then again, I suppose you pro-corporate types get more jollies out of punishing as many as possible to show off how powerful you are 
Each day america gets worse and worse.
One summer during college, I worked in a call center. It was hell. Every minute was accounted for. We had to toggle a setting on a time clock to a different setting depending on if we were on an inbound call, a call-back, in a meeting, taking training, had system issues, were mentoring, etc. There was also a setting for bathroom breaks. 
