Community Chat

[straykatz]

Should an employer be allowed to limit the amount of time used for bathroom breaks....and my primary question after reading the following article is "Should an employer be allowed to track who goes in and out of the bathroom and how often?"

https://gma.yahoo.com/company-limits-worker-bathroom-6-minutes-day-union-201335976--abc-news-person...

[mima]

I just saw that on tv. I'm sure some people abuse the workplace by going to the bathroom to place calls, fix their makeup or whatever.

I don't know where the line should be drawn though.

[terrier3]

This is ridiculous.

If you can't trust your employees enough to use the bathroom responsibly, what kind of a place are you running?

[nun ya]

Some places now have people put their cell phones in a locker before they clock in.

[straykatz]

I once had an supervisor (new job - been there less than 1 week) take me aside and tell me that I needed to time my restroom breaks to my official breaktimes.....like I can control exactly what time I need to use the restroom....I went back to my desk...and stewed and stewed and stewed over her words....at lunch time I walked out and never went back.

[terrier3]

On 7/17/2014 straykatz said:

I once had an supervisor (new job - been there less than 1 week) take me aside and tell me that I needed to time my restroom breaks to my official breaktimes.....like I can control exactly what time I need to use the restroom....I went back to my desk...and stewed and stewed and stewed over her words....at lunch time I walked out and never went back.

Good for you!...that would have just been the start of a very bad situation for you.

[straykatz]

On 7/17/2014 nunya said:

Some places now have people put their cell phones in a locker before they clock in.

I can see that happening...cell phone usage has gotten way out of control.....there are people who simply can't survive without constantly talking on their phone to someone or texting all the time....I come from a generation that did not have cell phones in my youth or early phase of my working career so I fail to understand why people are so obsessed/glued to their phones...it affects everything/everyone around them whether they care to admit it or not.

[kittymomNC]

If anyone ever thought they could tell me how many times or how much time I could spend using the bathroom, they could also wave goodbye to me!

[Lipstickdiva]

I don't know what the answer is either. I work on a campus that is home to a very large medical facility, although I don't work for them. We have a condo unit inside a building owned by them and we share a common bathroom.

There have been times I have had to wait to use the bathroom because one of their employees was inside the bathroom talking on her cellphone!

I didn't read the article and I know I should but my thought is, what if you are having an "issue" that day? Would they rather have you stay home?

[brii]

If people are using the bathroom for other things, I can understand why employers would want to limit that sort of thing.