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A lot of workers have nowhere to pee, for example bus drivers. Often they avoid drinking water for this reason, allowing themselves to be chronically dehydrated

A lot of workers have nowhere to pee, for example bus drivers. Often they avoid drinking water for this reason, allowing themselves to be chronically dehydrated.

srtjstjsj 6y ago
At least for government employees, if not all non-office workers, government should simply mandate to that any building open to the public must allow use of its bathrooms.
- martinald 6y ago
  This is actually a result of the opioid crisis more than anything. If you leave your bathrooms open then you'll get a lot of people using then to use drugs. And a lot of them will overdose in those bathrooms (which is a serious problem for staff).
  - mPReDiToR 6y ago
    This problem was so bad that a lot of places installed blue lighting to make it difficult to see veins to use for injections. So the story goes.
grawprog 6y ago
A few years ago I was doing granite work. On installs, if the customer's plumbing wasn't hooked up, we'd have to find a bush somewhere...or so I thought. One day, I was digging around in the back of the truck looking for some acetone and grabbed out a bottle of some yellowish brown liquid. Suddenly, head installer starts freaking out a bit going on 'no no don't touch that.' After a moment or two it dawned on all of us what it was... So after hastily tossing the bottle aside and a round of 'what the fucks!!?' from everybody, our coworker explained how he was worried about using the bushes in case some came up and filmed it and put it on youtube. Yeah...peeing locations can definitely be an issue at work in general.
- princeb 6y ago
  in finance people joke about the 'broker's bottle', which is what the sales people use under the desk if clients and markets both require their non-stop attention. i mean, it's just a joke, nobody really has these in an air-conditioned office, and these desk workers are generally still pretty well taken care of, all things considered. by the time one is 5 years in, one should be able to go 12 hours without ever leaving their chair, it's just part of the on-the-job training.
- eschulz 6y ago
  It makes sense, especially if workers are on a project in a residential area. I've heard of drunk people being threatened with the sex offender list when they were caught urinating on a bush after dark. People might take drastic steps if strange men are urinating in the lawn adjacent to where their kids are playing.
  - grawprog 6y ago
    True enough. Though, any jobsite we were on lacking indoor plumbing also typically didn't usually have children actively living in them when we were there working. But I do see the point.
    - eschulz 6y ago
      I live in a vibrant residential Chicago neighborhood where developers are constantly tearing down old houses and building new ones. The largest two demographics here are small children and Polish speaking construction workers.
villgax 6y ago
& there goes their kidneys
cozzyd 6y ago
Pretty sure there are usually for places for bus drivers to pee at layover points. I believe the CTA even constructs toilets or deploys portapotties for this purpose, if there is no amenable business or institution (for example, https://www.google.com/maps/@41.924152,-87.8020309,3a,75y,237.17h,74.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1smcGzgOx2Y-YjSuvareGqzw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@41.924152,-87.8020309,3a,75y,23... sure looks like a toilet). Now, it's possible that COVID has affected some of these agreements (e.g. if the institution is a museum or something that is temporarily closed) and of course some of the bus routes are long and sometimes drivers must have to go in the middle.

A lot of workers have nowhere to pee, for example bus drivers. Often they avoid drinking water for this reason, allowing themselves to be chronically dehydrated.

srtjstjsj 6y ago

At least for government employees, if not all non-office workers, government should simply mandate to that any building open to the public must allow use of its bathrooms.

martinald 6y ago
This is actually a result of the opioid crisis more than anything. If you leave your bathrooms open then you'll get a lot of people using then to use drugs. And a lot of them will overdose in those bathrooms (which is a serious problem for staff).
- mPReDiToR 6y ago
  This problem was so bad that a lot of places installed blue lighting to make it difficult to see veins to use for injections. So the story goes.

grawprog 6y ago

A few years ago I was doing granite work. On installs, if the customer's plumbing wasn't hooked up, we'd have to find a bush somewhere...or so I thought. One day, I was digging around in the back of the truck looking for some acetone and grabbed out a bottle of some yellowish brown liquid. Suddenly, head installer starts freaking out a bit going on 'no no don't touch that.' After a moment or two it dawned on all of us what it was... So after hastily tossing the bottle aside and a round of 'what the fucks!!?' from everybody, our coworker explained how he was worried about using the bushes in case some came up and filmed it and put it on youtube. Yeah...peeing locations can definitely be an issue at work in general.

princeb 6y ago
in finance people joke about the 'broker's bottle', which is what the sales people use under the desk if clients and markets both require their non-stop attention. i mean, it's just a joke, nobody really has these in an air-conditioned office, and these desk workers are generally still pretty well taken care of, all things considered. by the time one is 5 years in, one should be able to go 12 hours without ever leaving their chair, it's just part of the on-the-job training.
eschulz 6y ago
It makes sense, especially if workers are on a project in a residential area. I've heard of drunk people being threatened with the sex offender list when they were caught urinating on a bush after dark. People might take drastic steps if strange men are urinating in the lawn adjacent to where their kids are playing.
- grawprog 6y ago
  True enough. Though, any jobsite we were on lacking indoor plumbing also typically didn't usually have children actively living in them when we were there working. But I do see the point.
  - eschulz 6y ago
    I live in a vibrant residential Chicago neighborhood where developers are constantly tearing down old houses and building new ones. The largest two demographics here are small children and Polish speaking construction workers.

villgax 6y ago

& there goes their kidneys

cozzyd 6y ago

Pretty sure there are usually for places for bus drivers to pee at layover points. I believe the CTA even constructs toilets or deploys portapotties for this purpose, if there is no amenable business or institution (for example, https://www.google.com/maps/@41.924152,-87.8020309,3a,75y,237.17h,74.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1smcGzgOx2Y-YjSuvareGqzw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 https://www.google.com/maps/@41.924152,-87.8020309,3a,75y,23... sure looks like a toilet). Now, it's possible that COVID has affected some of these agreements (e.g. if the institution is a museum or something that is temporarily closed) and of course some of the bus routes are long and sometimes drivers must have to go in the middle.