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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOn a scale from 1 to 10 (with 10 being dead wrong), how wrong is this??
Chicago Company Counts the Minutes Workers Spend on the ToiletEmployees who exceed 6 minutes of potty time each day face discipline. Union and company owner at odds over contract terms.
Does your boss count the minutes you spend on the potty?
The folks who run WaterSaver Faucet Co. in Chicago do, and the five dozen factory workers there are so fed up with crossing their legs on the job that they've filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board.
The workers, who build faucet stations that go into high schools, university labs and healthcare facilities, say they are allowed only 6 minutes per day for toilet breaks, according to Teamsters Local 743, and anyone who exceeds their allotted toilet time is reprimanded.
The company implemented a toilet-tracking system earlier this year that requires employees to swipe a keycard to use the bathroom, Steven Kersten, owner and president of WaterSaver Faucet Co., told the Chicago Tribune.
http://lakeview.patch.com/groups/business-news/p/chicago-company-counts-the-minutes-workers-spend-on-the-toilet
I'd be soooo reprimanded!
-JB
zappaman
(20,606 posts)Sometimes it takes more than 6 minutes to stock the lake with brown trout.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)After a big lunch.
PeteSelman
(1,508 posts)Someone isn't doing their job.
Hekate
(90,777 posts)Hopefully the NLRB will have something to say about this.
PeteSelman
(1,508 posts)Someone negotiated this travesty into the contract. I hope they got something major in return.
Hekate
(90,777 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,376 posts)Hekate
(90,777 posts)St Ronnie took the cake. And all the frosting too.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,376 posts)That's what Taft Hartley did - pulled the teeth of organized labor. Reagan was just yanking the crappy dentures.
moriah
(8,311 posts)I think they'll win their complaint.
Ms. Toad
(34,086 posts)I have a daughter whose potty needs vary tremendously because of IBD - and when I had uterine fibroids, 3/4 of the month I spent the entire day running from my office to the potty and back again.
Except that I think 9 is being generous...
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)women need not apply.
very wrong.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Joanie Baloney
(1,357 posts)Response to Joanie Baloney (Original post)
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MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)It's wrong.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)
while you're filling out your deposit slip.
Maybe bathroom signs would be in order
. Let's see
. How about, "Don't fudge on your paperwork!"
Joanie Baloney
(1,357 posts)You've got a real humorous streak there, MMM.
Did anyone else chuckle when they read that the company's name is WaterSaver???
-JB
Orsino
(37,428 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)minutes between classes to "go," and that was after decades of having class-passing time only THREE minutes!
Ms. Toad
(34,086 posts)in a day that lasted fewer than 8 hours. This is 6 minutes TOTAL - for the entire 8 hour day.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,086 posts)But the point is that you were comparing a combined bathroom break of six minutes to the 4 minute break you had (on all the school schedules I'm aware of) 5-7 times a day. Six minutes +a lunch break in an 8 hour day is not comparable to 20-28 minutes + a lunch break in a day which is almost certainly shorter than 8 hours.
Takket
(21,620 posts)6 minutes??????????? sometimes 6 minutes just doesn't cut it............... let's not elaborate any more than that.
BainsBane
(53,056 posts)and I once again count my blessings over how lucky I am to have the employer I do.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)or to develop UTIs, kidney damage, constipation, etc.
Win-win!!!!
Aerows
(39,961 posts)worrying about how long somebody spends in the bathroom has a productivity problem - and it has nothing to do with the employees.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)If that's what you build your business model on, you are an idiot. I'll bet there are far too many useless managers and most people would quit that job in a heartbeat if they could.
elleng
(131,077 posts)icymist
(15,888 posts)Wow! You have something like a colostomy? I'm sorry, you only have six minutes to fix your problem. Crohns disease? Total, six minutes in a eight hour shift! Gotta have that big BM? Sorry after six minutes have passed by! Better hold it! Diarrhea? Forget it! Don't even get me talking about those born with an infortated anus! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperforate_anus That's a 'hidden' disability and we don't see it!
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)showing how much time women need to use the toilet compared to men, and it's more. Most women who work are dealing with monthly periods as well as everything else.
Also, women are at risk of urinary tract infections if they don't go to the bathroom frequently enough. Any policy that prevents that puts their health at risk.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)But, the way I would handle it is to go home when my six minutes were up. I would first of course encourage everyone to do the same thing at the same time on the same day, but that's just me.
rock
(13,218 posts)Somebody really knows his shit!
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)From the company president on down?
Oh. I thought not.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)TheKentuckian
(25,029 posts)Throd
(7,208 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)The camels back is getting overloaded big time here
We gonna have to remove the politicians that have allowed shit like this to become the norm. GOT'f*nV