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.

[choughlesRN]

THAT I can understand. Same idea as not using the bathroom in a patient's room.

[wondern, ASN]

Devil's donuts...

[HannahMarine30]

We can barely dictate where our patients poop. ?

[Crush]

So my co-worker and I were talking about odors on the floor ( not fecal ) and she pulls a bottle of Poo-pouri from her scrub pocket. We got on the subject obviously of those commercials. I love the poo-pouri commercials, they are histerical. Spent the last part of our shift watching YouTube commercial videos for it.

[nursekayde1978]

This is usually the case. The lounge is already small and there is one rest room. The hospital has so may little hide aways..Find one and claim it as your throne!

[EKUGRAD, BSN, MSN, RN, CNS]

I worked at a state psychiatric hospital for 8 years. This was a "worst of the worst" facility for psychiatric care and forensic evaluation. The nursing units were organized around a central locked nurses station. There was a staff toilet in the center of this small station where everyone came and went as the day progressed. It was a definite NO-NO to poop in the nurses station toilet ! We had a tech who was of Korean/Vietnamese heritage. She went #2 in that toilet one evening and we had to evacuate the chart room. We were still paper charting, some of the charts turned brown and curled up. A few vultures circled the building for a while, thinking something had died. It set off the RADON detector in the basement. After that we had security come to the unit if someone headed to that toilet with a newspaper in their hand. We tried to get OSHA to help but they declined, saying they are overwhelmed with these requests all the time. Same with the EPA. So, anyway, forget the boss. Respect your co-workers sensibilities and poop as far away as possible, preferably at home.

[EKUGRAD, BSN, MSN, RN, CNS]

I thought only nurses would have a forum for discussing poop adventures but Buzz Feed has even more !

[EKUGRAD, BSN, MSN, RN, CNS]

It's all ***** and giggles until someone giggles and *****.

[SpankedInPittsburgh, DNP, RN]

They actually sell Poo-pouri? I thought it was a joke. We are so uptight & self-conscious that we don't want people to think our poop smells like poop??? WOW!!! To quote Dr. House "Everybody Poops".

[malenurse69, MSN, NP]

I'd take a nice fat dump on the boss's desk. Is this a joke?

[SpankedInPittsburgh, DNP, RN]

That would be rude. You gotta do it in a desk drawer

[wondern, ASN]

No matter how hard I try to hide it I always leave a little evidence...