15
Honestly, I just need a place to vent. I work at home for a call center and they’ve been making sure on busy days to say to reach out to a manager on duty if you’re going to be offline for more than five minutes.
I feel like for women this is even worse than men, although some men obviously have GI issues. A lot of women get constipated around their period or may need a bit of extra time to clean up (on top of the other things) in the restroom. And of course the very day it happens again that they post that message I’m having movement issues and am in the bathroom for 15 minutes. I don’t want to reach out. What the fuck am I going to say? “I’m sorry, I didn’t want to strain too much while I was shitting, but my meds back me up and I’m really uncomfortable.”
The idea that I should need a medical accommodation if I have a longer poop once in a while is infuriating. Or what if I’m new to using a menstrual cup? I’m not actually using one myself but I’ve heard there’s a learning curve there.
There should be a certain amount carved out each day, and not just two 15 minute breaks (especially for ten hour shifts) for people to use the damn BATHROOM. This company didn’t used to be as bad about this but ever since work from home, which in my case was forced on me against my will permanently because my office closed, they’ve wanted to make sure that everyone is giving them every single minute they could.
Totally get it! I work in a male dominated field. They can take 30 minute craps, but I’m shit on for needing to pump.
Ugh that infuriates me for you. We have a decent allowance for pumping but my company still pisses me off about this stuff
I'd challenge it this way - the person who decides that 5 minutes is how long it takes is only doing one thing in the bathroom. The policy discriminates against women and people with a disability.
Ugh i worked for a call center from home and my boss was a fucking nazi. I empathize with you. It was awful and the worst part was that my boss was a control freak douchebag, but the other supervisors were way cooler and laid back. I hated that boss so much.
I have one of the “cool” managers in the department and I’m struggling. I’d be fired if not, no doubt. I never had a problem in office because my managers could see I was at my desk doing my job most of the time and if not I was doing something related to my job.
I get I need to be on the phone a certain amount of time. And sometimes maybe I do take a few minutes too long between calls. But I also am within the top like five of the highest fucking surveys in the department. I just checked yesterday and I had FOUR bad surveys during the entirety of 2023. Four. Out of the entire year. And they were company policy shit I couldn’t help.
You’d think that you know, you’d prefer someone with 78 or so percent schedule adherence who has everyone leave happy almost than someone with 99 percent adherence who has a handful of bad surveys every month but corporate doesn’t know how to look at it like, “oh this person steps away for two minutes when they have a particularly irate caller and then comes back with a good attitude for their next call.”
I don’t know how you did it if you had the asshole boss, truly.
It was fucking horrible. I finally had to tell her that after bad calls, I was taking time to calm down and she could stuff it.
That didn't do much and I ended up quitting and going on welfare temporarily just to get the fuck away from her
If anyone ever says anything to me about my time in the restroom, they are going to regret ever asking, and will likely never ask me again.
They will be getting the worst 💩 blow out story I can dream up.
Fuck all managers that that do this. It is dehumanizing. If you want employees that don’t need a restroom, design a damn robot.
It really is fucking dehumanizing. Employers would get better quality work if they quit that bullshit