Is it legal for your boss to dictate where you poop?

[klone]

As in, there are two employee restrooms, and the boss has requested that if you're going to poop, you should use the restroom in the "dirty utility area" because of odor. And if you DO poop in the non-poop bathroom, you'll be "talked to."

Asking for a friend.

[NotAllWhoWandeRN, ASN, RN]

Crush said:

I do recall seeing somewhere that the sugar free gummy bears have quite the laxative effect.

Sugar alcohols can indeed be a real bear.

[TriciaJ, RN]

Crush said:

I have a co-worker who clogged our employee toilet. Had to maintenance. We were having to run upstairs to use the one on the floor above us. I remember maintenance saying it was the biggest one they'd ever had to remove. Called it a "tree trunk." We were all holding it together with professionalism till he said that and we all kinda lost it laughing. I'd say that alone would qualify for the poop Olympics.

A "tree trunk"? And it was passed without an epidural?

[3ringnursing, BSN]

Okay did I ever tell you the story of a PCT I worked with like ... a really, really long time ago?

He worked at a car dealership years before (like a really, really time time before that). So the boss would select one of the workers to get to drive a tricked out car to a sister dealership up in Phoenix on occasion. Everyone loved to be selected.

So one day the boss gets all the employees together to draw straws - yup, the guy telling the story wins. He's all excited, but the boss shakes his head and says, "No ... follow me".

They go to the customer's bathroom, and it is a little tiny space. The boss cracks the door - apparently the last guy to use it was very sick, and only got to pulling down his pants ... and sprayed on the wall, floor and toilet in liquid charnel house effluvia. He didn't win driving an amazing fully loaded car - he had to clean the bathroom.

Immediately his stomach rebelled. He wondered if quitting would be better - or if burning down the bathroom would be a more expedient solution. He did neither - he cleaned it. But he left not long there after though, and survived to tell the tale.

Moral of the story: Beware of gifts.

[StarBrownRN]

I wonder if we work in the same facility... I almost died of laughter when I saw a sign saying "Do Not Defecate"

Like how do you even enforce something like that?? Poo-police??

[SpankedInPittsburgh, DNP, RN]

I would go on the cabbage, cheese and cheap beer diet just to use that rest room as frequently as possible

[Davey Do]

StarBrownRN said:

Like how do you even enforce something like that?? Poo-police??

[Davey Do]

klone said:

My hus....friend wanted me to share with you all that the day after the no-poop proclamation came out, he did in fact poop in the non-poop bathroom.

Let us celebrate with joy.

[JenTheSchoolRN, BSN, RN]

I was at a party this past weekend and this story came up. I have awesomely gross friends and it turned into a hilarious 1 hour discussion.

[Crush]

Next they'll tell we can't pee at work if we ate asparagus prior to or on shift.

So I showed this to my friend at work and she told me about this video about going at work. It was hilarious.

[3ringnursing, BSN]

Davey Do said:

Those few words of Sour Lemon's reminded me of a story:

One of the psychiatrists was in the GeroPsych nurses station and said he badly needed to use the restroom. We informed him the staff restroom was closed for repairs. Staff, in the meantime, was using the locked seclusion bathroom next to the nurses station that was behind two locked doors.

I went to unlock the doors and was fumbling with the keys when the psychiatrist said,"Hurry up, Dave or I'm going to be incontinent!"

Maybe he actually meant he was from Europe - you know, from in the continent?

[Davey Do]

3ringnursing said:

Maybe he actually meant he was from Europe - you know, from in the continent?

[3ringnursing, BSN]

SpankedInPittsburgh said:

I would go on the cabbage, cheese and cheap beer diet just to use that rest room as frequently as possible

Don't forget cheap Mexican food!