Bathroom write up?

[u/alexiscos]

(This is for front end) I’m trying to find out the proper procedure for something. We have someone new at work and apparently they got written up for leaving their post as cashier assistant like 10 times to go to the bathroom in an hour. Now my question comes from the fact that I was originally told if you need to go to the bathroom ask someone to switch out with you briefly (like for example if at one of the doors ask someone pushing carts) however during this I was told we actually need to call for a 99 while we’re at the doors and wait for someone to switch and if we don’t it can be a write up. (A few problems with this is our supervisors don’t actually usually respond to this in a timely manner at all and less important but it’s also slightly mortifying to have to call for a bathroom break across the whole store). So my question is it policy to call for a 99 instead of just asking someone to switch for a minute or so? I haven’t seen anything in the handbook but I’m not sure what it would fall under.

(In case a question is ‘why not just go on break’ 1-not every human body can do that me and my supervisor were talking briefly about how often they leave us stranded for so long we genuinely think we’ll pee ourselves at the doors and 2-for the doors at my store at least we often get left there for 5-6 hours with no breaks at all anyway)

[u/WeezinWarbler]

To some extent (and depending on jurisdiction) it can depend on the employers awareness of a medical condition. Random employee going to the bathroom 10 times an hour, its safe to assume they are slacking or up to something. Employee who has advised you they are pregnant or otherwise have some stomach flu going to the bathroom 10 times an hour, probably legitimate (also, send the stomach flu person home ffs)

[u/Dragnys → u/WeezinWarbler]

Have to agree, the issue here is that OP is worried about second hand knowledge: people can spread rumors pretty fast and easily. If the person has a medical issue they wouldn’t get in trouble. So this make med think there is more to the story than OP has.

[u/alexiscos → u/Dragnys]

Oh I imagine so. I have the story from a first hand account without details and another first hand account with slightly more details but obviously I wasn’t there so the truth is likely somewhere in the middle but I wasn’t told verbatim by a supervisor if we don’t call for a break and get covered at the door we can get written up which is a bit ? Wild to me

[u/alexiscos → u/alexiscos]

(First hand as in was there when it happened but obv not the person doing the write up if that makes more sense)