To Pee Or Not To Pee

[blas87]

That, is the question!

So far, that one is going ok at CS (it's a thread in CoC), but I feel we are less inhibited here. A few comments have kinda hit a nerve with me, because I have a shift lead who (please read this carefully before you rageporn) was in trouble BEFORE for not letting people go to the bathroom or trying to get them in trouble for going to the bathroom between their break times. Now she must just silently rage when someone walks off to use the bathroom, I've seen her do it. Quite frankly, I think it's funny, considering the dumb twat gave herself a bladder infection once because she put the work before a simple few minute bathroom break that could have prevented it from happening.

As long as someone is not caught doing something else other than using the bathroom, why do people get all adament "I learned to hold it and deal with it!" Well, goody for you.

I understand me working in a factory, and someone waiting on customers, is slightly different, and I can understand that it's probably easier for me to make a case than a person who works on a cash register, but it shouldn't be that hard. It's a human bodily function.

[Andara Bledin]

It's a vital bodily function, somewhere in urgency between breathing and eating.

I, personally, can go for most of a day without going. Most of my family, however, has to have a rest break every couple of hours. And I don't begrudge them their breaks.

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[Ginger Tea]

My bladder saved my life, I could have bled to death or lost way more blood than I did if I had not gotten out of bed to go to the toilet.

So when nature calls, I don't let it go to answering machine. (I should have that as my sig)
I don't smoke, but smokers are allowed (within reason) to have a few out of break fags, me working in a giant fridge, my bladder even after 8 years of doing the job, still runs on super speed and one day I had gone 8 times in the first two hours.

Not being allowed to leave would involve someone or something expensive being pissed on.

[SongsOfDragons]

I can't believe employers can seriously think that they can forbid or restrict loo breaks. Do they have brains of cheese? There will be accidents!

[bara]

I have no problem with people taking bathroom breaks, I have a problem with excessive bathroom breaks when they arent bathroom breaks.

[crashhelmet]

I have no issues with bathroom breaks either. When people use them to go flirt with someone in a different part of the building, go outside to smoke, or some other way to get out of doing their job, it irks me.

[blas87]

That's exactly it.

Someone who drinks a lot of water, is going to pee a lot. Well, I guess coffee drinkers pee a lot, too.

Unless you've actually seen a person just go screwing around instead of going into the restroom, then get over yourself already.

[woodensunshine]

I commented on your post on CS. I hope you didn't take it like I was saying that you should learn to hold it. I learned to hold it, but I was not happy about it.

When I had to use the restroom, I had to find someone to cover my register and, towards closing, that was nigh impossible, so I did learn to hold by bladder. However, this was a source of frustration. There are four cash registers in that store (not counting large appliances and electronics). I'm that the customers could find another register in the five minutes it took me to pee.

[blas87]

I'm in a position where we aren't supposed to leave machines alone, either. Not that anything horrible will really happen, but that they want everything to stay running, all the time, no gaps, ya know?

And it pisses me off that three minutes of lost production is more important to them than what could happen. Not everyone is prone to bladder infections, I understand, but it's not worth the risk. Or the fact that the more you have to pee, the longer you hold it, the harder it is to concentrate and move around or sit still.

I say screw it. I have to spend literally half of a day at my job, multiple days a week. I will not give up drinking water, or using the bathroom when need be, because it makes someone else mad that I'm interfering with them looking good by having the most production numbers.

[woodensunshine]

I've never been more pleased to work at a desk job. I have to go to the bathroom a lot, because of stomach icks, so it's nice to be able to just go!

I can't believe one of the supervisors is crazy enough to give herself a bladder infection.

[blas87]

Well, she's not my supervisor, she's the shift leader. Basically, the person in charge of telling everyone which machines to run and what to do. They never pick anyone who actually knows what they are doing

She's certainly....special. In a sense that I'd love nothing more than to never have to see her again. But, she's bulletproof, and I'm not. So, there ya go.

[powerboy]

Luckily, I can go to the bathroom whenever I want. Unless someone is using it. I am my own boss.

I never had a job, where I could not go to the bathroom, when needed.

But back in middle school

I had one class that whenever I stepped foot in it, I had to go to the bathroom, no matter what. Everyday, it was like that. I would literally walk past the bathrooms to go to that class. The teacher would always get mad. But I could not help it. After a couple of weeks, I would have to hold it, until after class seeing as she would not let me go.

[aurelemsrealm]

When it comes to restroom breaks, I'm not negotiating. If nature is calling, I'm going. Since I work in a c-store, I often work alone. I don't get regular breaks because some customer always wants something.

I no longer smoke to get my nicotine fix since I now use snus. So, I don't take smoke breaks. I only take a food break if I am working with another coworker because it never fails that some customer will show up if you try to eat.

The point is that I don't take regular breaks at work. So, I take what I need when I need it. Most of the time, I just work at a slow and steady pace.

[firecat88]

At school, even if I was right-smack in the middle of class and there was a lecture going on, even if the closest available bathroom was on the other side of the building, I tended to drop everything to use the toilet if I had to. Some of my profs were understanding, but I got dirty looks from one of 'em. Ask me how much I cared.

Because of my spina bifida, I'm absurdly more susceptible to kidney problems than most people, so I'm on a strict pee-every-three-hours schedule. Sometimes more than once in said three-hour periods, depending on how many times I've had to refill my water bottle in that amount of time or if I'm about to leave the house and I know that I'm either going to be in the car a while or the bathroom where I'm going is...not so great, if existent at all.

Long story short, I say that if you've gotta go then, by all means, go. Holding it is unhealthy and uncomfortable.

[Peppergirl]

I have no problem with people taking bathroom breaks, I have a problem with excessive bathroom breaks when they arent bathroom breaks.

I agree with this, but if the person is actually going into the bathroom and wasting time (texting, calling friends, updating facebook), how does one prove they're playing around?