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.

[Davey Do]

maxthecat said:

There probably has been excessive pooping due to overeating gummy bears

Yes, maxthecat! Gummy Bears stolen from doctors' Christmas stockings!

[SpankedInPittsburgh, DNP, RN]

I knew the Gummi Bears were behind this fecal crisis

[NurseSpeedy, ADN, LPN, RN]

Well, unless she's monitoring each person as they come in and out of the bathroom and smells in between each use it's going to be impossible to prove (sarcasm).

As someone who suffers from colitis I'm going to use whichever bathroom I can get to in time. Boss would just have to understand that poop happens. Would she prefer it in the toilet or on the floor? And if she prefers the floor then she can take report on my patients so I can go clean up in the "approved" bathroom. Yeah, I wouldn't work for a company that placed a nurse who is afraid of the smell of poop in charge.

[SummitRN, BSN, RN]

I've worked two places where the bathroom in the tiny lounge had a sign like this:

Because the odor would fill the lounge where people were eating...

As long as it is not too far to the other bathroom, its not too much to ask. But if you gotta go you gotta go.

[klone, MSN, RN]

brownbook said:

Okay, thanks to a few recent fake posts on Allnurses I have learned to check the name of the poster. I even made a list of posters I know are trolls or agitators.

But Klone! This has to be "fake news". Maybe Allnurses needs a new heading, Fake or True, you decide.

Sadly it's not. It's a legit email announcement that SOMEONE I know very well just received.

[Davey Do]

SpankedInPittsburgh said:

I knew the Gummi Bears were behind this fecal crisis

"Fecal Crisis"

That reminds me of an old Jacob Rockstar-RN Psych Nurse Action Figure episode...

[NurseSpeedy, ADN, LPN, RN]

SummitRN said:

I've worked two places where the bathroom in the tiny lounge had a sign like this:

Because the odor would fill the lounge where people were eating...

As long as it is not too far to the other bathroom, its not too much to ask. But if you gotta go you gotta go.

I never even thought of it as a bathroom next to the eating table type of thing (half the places I've worked didn't even have a separate place for employees to eat. Those that did were probably a closet previously and did not had a toilet).

Yes, IF the bathroom in question was next to the kitchen table so to speak it's not a crazy request. Ick.

[Davey Do]

I'm sorry. I had to go to the bathroom and didn't see the typo.

[Crush]

klone said:

Sadly it's not. It's a legit email announcement that SOMEONE I know very well just received.

Seriously sad.

Of course the person who sent out that e-mail should receive a mystery gift with a clothes pin for their nose and some poop pouri. Butt, I dare them to tell me where to poo. If the time is right, the closest bathroom shall be where the dumping shall take place.

Yes, there are legal guidelines and I suppose those guidelines were created because someone else has had this happen.

[WestCoastSunRN, MSN, CNS]

So it's not really "official" in my unit, but we all have an understanding. Some of us have code words to indicate the need to leave the unit... but all of us are in agreement about not pooing in certain places. We'll make sure you get to poo... just not in THAT bathroom.

[SpankedInPittsburgh, DNP, RN]

Like Moses (or Charlton Heston I get those two confused) said

"Set my feces free"

[Davey Do]

klone said:

And if you DO poop in the non-poop bathroom, you'll be "talked to."

Sounds like they're being real anal about it.

Get it? "Anal"?

Is this thing on?

No. Really. Thank you.