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

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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.

Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

TMI maybe, but I don't always know when I'm going to poop.

Sometimes I think I just have to pee, but the urge hits and I just can't help it.

We keep spray in our bathroom, but some people hate the spray and say they would rather smell the poop!

One hospital where I worked... the aides would use peppermint oil.. cotton balls soaked in peppermint oil, then put in a medicine cup and just placed somewhere in the room. I HATED the smell of that stuff, so bad. I actually preferred to just smell the poop!

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NurseCard said:
I actually prefer to smell the poop!

We know. After all, you are the spokeswoman for that cologne.

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As the only male on my unit, I often "take the charts back to PCU" around 3am.

I think they're on to me.

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klone said:
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."

A key phrase here is "because of odor".

Solution: Through an empirical study, find which employees poop stinks and which employees poop does not stink, then give them separate restrooms.

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aprilmoss said:
This thread reminds me of one of my favorite Scrubs episodes:

All I got from your link was a still from the movie Groundhog Day, aprilmoss.

Maybe this is the one you were talking about:

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
TruvyNurse said:
Davey Do you are KILLING ME!!

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Specializes in retired LTC.

Before nsg, I worked secretary in a paving/concrete company. Whenever I passed by the BR, I used to notice that one employee was always outside the door and when seen, REAL QUICK made like he was drinking from the water fountain there. He was sooo obviously obvious it was funny to watch him.

I used to wonder what he was doing, maybe like spying on the gals going in & out the BR or timing them. Or maybe there was some camera nearby or audio or something. Couldn't figure it out. The other gals noticed it too.

Problem was the guy was the owner's future intended son-in-law. Never figured out what kind of work he really did. Guess that was the privilege of marrying the boss' dtr.

What we gals did was whenever one of us went into the BR, we would start/take turns flushing the toilets and we would start running the faucets full blast. Like something from a spy movie, we felt like we were being spied on but we really couldn't be really sure. Nothing was going on - there were only a couple of gals in the office. No union issues or inner office discord.

But there was G outside the BR.

Knowing what exists today, we'd be having harassment or pervert kinkiness issues. And talking with HR.

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Specializes in Practice educator.

I'm sure he can't...Did make me laugh though.

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Maybe I'm in the minority, but if one of your restrooms is in the employee break room (ours was, and there were other restrooms nearby as well) where people are eating, please take your business somewhere else. Exception-if you have colitis or some other uncontrollable issue, okay fine, if you must, but the rest of you, that's just rude.

DH and I went to one of our favorite Mexican restaurants recently, and when we walked in, we could smell sewage. I'm not a queasy person at all, but that's just gross. No way to eat while smelling that. We looked at each other, turned around, and walked right out of there.

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This is hilarious! How about, well I initially went to do number one but then number 2 came out. Sorry!

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I'm just here for the comments

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Specializes in School nursing.

One the joys of being a school nurse is being in an office with a bathroom that becomes the "poop" bathroom. I'm not sending a kid home to poop, so I just deal with it. It is not a very fun bathroom to walk into a lot of the time.

I buy a lot of de-odor spray.

But honestly, with the amount of time it can take to "dump" so to speak, I have debated buying a Squatty Potty.

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