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Being able to use the restroom when you need to is a perk?
by jsprogrammer 10y ago
Being able to use the restroom when you need to is a perk?
- golergka 10y agoYes. I don't know how they organized scanning books, but in a lot of jobs it makes total sense. Do you know how a conveyor belt works, for example? Soccer players earn millions of dollars, but they still can't go to a bathroom break in the middle of a game.
- jsprogrammer 10y agoI do know how a conveyor belt works. Have you heard of contingency planning? A soccer player is out on the field for, 45 minutes? Have you seen contracts that restricts a player's ability to use a restroom?
- golergka 10y agoOK, just in case my point is not obvious: these are _examples_. These examples are illustrating a thesis that certain jobs can have good reasons for restricting employees access to the bathroom. Of course, I don't have any idea of what goes into soccer players contracts, because that's not the point.
- jsprogrammer 10y agoYou claimed your illustrative example as actual fact. 45 minutes would be no different than having to attend meetings during which you would not be allowed to leave to use a restroom.
- mucker 10y agoExcellent point. I've had to work in retail. You don't just get to go to the bathroom because someone has to man the front desk. This is a fact of the business. If you don't like it, feel free to go somewhere else. No one is stopping you.
- lollegag 10y agoI'm not going to sugar coat my words. It's this sort of treatment that drives people mad enough to buy powerful guns and use them on lots of people before using them to end their own lives. Why would anyone think it's okay to immerse people in some kind of compulsory pavlovian nightmare? Go somewhere else? Like where? Panhandling in streets? Waiting for cold and disease scrape another life off the sidewalk? What planet keeps sending us these middle-management assholes who just ache to watch someone wet their pants on the job?