Company Limits Bathroom Time to 6 Minutes a Day (employee, 2014, average)

[MPowering1]

The company in this article has limited bathroom time to six minutes a day and has decided to reward people with gift cards if they don't take any bathroom breaks at all during work time.

This sounds like something you would read on the Onion. How happy will they be when people start developing health issues because they're not going to the bathroom when they need to?

The controversy goes back to last winter when WaterSaver installed swipe card systems on bathrooms located off the factory floor.



The company said it had little choice because some employees were spending way too much time in there, and not enough time on the manufacturing line.

This seems to be a trend lately. Instead of addressing the employees that are the real problem, management implements a new rule for everyone. It's ridiculous. They need to grow a spine and deal with problems head on instead of doing stupid things like this.

I hope every employee gets a doctors note saying the employee must be allowed to go to the bathroom when they need to go to the bathroom, but you know that won't happen because people will want to get those gift cards.

[jessxwrites89]

Ugh. I'm actually surprised they can do that. What about the people with OAB or other health conditions?

[Mr_Geek]

That's a really crappy thing to do.

[Golden_Monkey]

Originally Posted by Mr_Geek

That's a really crappy thing to do.

I bet it really pi$$ed off a lot of people.

And that's the poop.

[Golden_Monkey]

Yeah, CEO Steve Kersten really dumped on his employees.

[bored chick]

i don't understand how they expect people to be at work for 8 hours and not have to go to the bathroom at all.

if you drink water you will be in the bathroom 5 times a day. do they not want their employees to drink or eat anything all day, either?

[MPowering1]

This is also from the article:

"The company has spreadsheets on every union employee on how long they were in the bathroom," said Nick Kreitman, the union representative at WaterSavers. "There have been meetings with workers and human resources where the workers had to explain what they were doing in the bathroom," he said.

These employees have to swipe cards when they enter and exit the bathroom and then management either gets, or creates, spread sheets on each employee. What a waste of time.

And as far as the reward system - maybe they should throw Cheerios in the men's room toilets for the guys to aim at, and give them gift cards if they don't miss the toilet.

It's demeaning to the people who aren't wasting time.

[AV8n]

Actually, they limited bathroom time to an average of 66 minutes a day. They are guaranteed 60 minutes per day for breaks, which they can spend sitting on the crapper or checking Facebook or whatever. In addition, the employer requires that bathroom breaks outside of normal break times not exceed a total of 60 minutes in a 10 day period. So if a guy had Mexican food one night and Montezuma's revenge the next day, he can spend up to two hours in the john that day - he just needs to stock up on Pepto the rest of the pay period.

What's sad is that they have to reward people who don't spend excessive time in the bathroom and instead can be depended on to actually do their jobs.

[sjdemak]

Another reason why working for other people sucks you cant even use the bathroom these days.

[G-fused]

Originally Posted by bored chick

i don't understand how they expect people to be at work for 8 hours and not have to go to the bathroom at all.

Catheter.