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Chicago Company Limits Employee Bathroom Breaks to Six Minutes a Day

Paul Constant
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It's pathetic when salaried fucks talk about wage earners. Their sympathy and concern is so fake and transparent.
dnt trust me on July 17, 2014 at 1:18 PM Report this
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They get twenty dollar gift cards at the end of the month if they don't use the toilet. How much do diapers cost?
Pope Peabrain on July 17, 2014 at 1:25 PM Report this
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slog tough guy #1 weighs in @1.

ayn rand is fiction, you know. no one like ellsworth toohey ever existed.
Max Solomon on July 17, 2014 at 1:31 PM Report this
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How does this work with the ADA? If someone is otherwise a good worker but has a medical condition requiring frequent trips to the bathroom, how would the company be required to handle that?
keshmeshi on July 17, 2014 at 1:37 PM Report this
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While I think this country has become too litigious, this is screaming for a lawsuit. Say someone has Crohn's disease? An ostomy bag?

The company is clearly run by assholes (surprise!) like 90% of the business world.
IndicaDogwalk on July 17, 2014 at 1:37 PM Report this
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How you handle the issue is go at it case by case. If someone is spending a lot of time in the bathroom to the point where management feels it's affecting their productivity, their immediate superior should talk to them about it and ask them to try and reduce the amount of time wasted.
What this company is doing is hassling their workers so that their managers don't have to do their job. It's easier for them to enact an idiotic policy than to actually pay attention to workers individually, but it's not good business overall. Draconian rules like this are going to kill workplace morale, driving away talented and experienced employees and making the remaining ones grumpy and even less productive.
ɥsɐןɯouǝʌ on July 17, 2014 at 1:44 PM Report this
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So, come and give your coins to me
Write your name here in the record book
The authorities will want to look
If you've been regular with me
If you've paid the proper fee
For the privilege to pee.
http://youtu.be/hmHekGAO080
opticsdoug on July 17, 2014 at 1:48 PM Report this
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Nobody got a giggle from the name of the company versus their retentive policy?

Well, all right then.
rob! on July 17, 2014 at 1:50 PM Report this
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@3

Aw Maximillian Sweety, you know I have a soft side
; )

I know you won't answer this, because you MAX Big Tough Guy too, but what do you think of that Israeli Politician woman calling for all the mothers of Palestinians to be killed? Put together me and you toughness, and we don't stand a chance against that bitch.
dnt trust me on July 17, 2014 at 2:01 PM Report this
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They can go ahead and fire my ass. If i'm paying the price for a night of Indian food the next morning, then I'm going to take as long as it takes. Unless they want us to work drenched in feces.
brandon on July 17, 2014 at 2:03 PM Report this
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See this is what happens. First they come for the birth control methods that are paid for under the insurance you work for AND NOW THEY'RE COMING FOR YOUR BATHROOM TIME. Just claim that your religion has mandatory 10 minute bathroom purges, problem solved.
watchout5 on July 17, 2014 at 2:19 PM Report this
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@11, maybe that is the solution: have all the employees simply stop going to the bathroom and stay at their work stations. Could get pretty smelly and I'm sure there would be some health violations.
Cato the Younger Younger on July 17, 2014 at 2:21 PM Report this
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@1,@10 kill yourself now.
JonnoN on July 17, 2014 at 2:33 PM Report this
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@10: talking big out of self-centered fear is not being "tough". come ask me when she goes and starts killing Palestinian women herself. then I'll tell you she's a monster.
Max Solomon on July 17, 2014 at 3:35 PM Report this
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People in the middle directing their ire downwards instead of upwards is an old phenomenon, with a long and pathetic history.
schmacky on July 17, 2014 at 3:37 PM Report this
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Back in the day, the supremo at Northwest Airlines had the doors taken off the bathroom stalls, for the same reason.
Toe Tag on July 17, 2014 at 3:47 PM Report this
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There are a lot of shit jobs where this kind of thing is common. I worked fast food briefly and the only time you could use the bathroom was during your break or lunch.
fletc3her on July 17, 2014 at 3:51 PM Report this
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@12

The only problem with your proposal is that the Supreme Court just ruled that the religious beliefs and rights of the corporation as defined by its owners supersedes the religious beliefs or rights of the lowly workers.

Remember they protected the religious beliefs and rights of Hobby Lobby, not the religious beliefs and rights of their workers.

Yep, the Supreme Court set a new hierarchy for religious rights wherein a corporation's religious freedom is equal only to its owners and is superior in all other respects to the religious rights of any and all other human beings.

To add further insult to injury, the Supreme Court also stated that the corporation and its owners have the right to direct the spending of its employees earnings. Your health care insurance is considered part of your earnings; in fact, in some states you have to pay taxes on it. But, under this ruling the corporation gets to spend it for you.

Welcome back to the plantation; it's like you never left.
on July 17, 2014 at 5:50 PM Report this
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I see females on the picket line. Women have periods that require frequent changes of pads and 'pons, Mr. Kersten. This isn't something you can save up for your break for most women at least a couple days a month. Sit on the expensive stuff, ladies, that policy might change right fast.
Kuda Bux on July 17, 2014 at 7:31 PM Report this

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