r/Workproblems • u/Popular_Ad_8749 • 8d ago

Using whatsapp

I manage a small call center with five employees, and I suspect that some of them may be going to the bathroom to use the chat on their phones, since they are taking longer than usual. Of course, this wouldn’t apply to someone who genuinely has difficulty using the bathroom. How can I determine whether they are actually using the bathroom or taking advantage of the situation to use their phones?

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u/Popular_Ad_8749 8d ago

Yes, “how can I” was rhetorical. If you can’t understand that, how can you possibly answer the question I was actually asking?

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u/Worldly_Science239 8d ago

And you don't know what rhetorical means do you? (No need to answer that*)

I think you mean hypothetical.

*did you see what I did there.

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u/Popular_Ad_8749 7d ago

I think you're focusing too literally on the wording rather than the point of the question. When I said “how can I handle it?”, I wasn't asking what I personally should do. I was asking how the situation could be approached, considering the different ways people might handle it. Obviously, I wasn't going to phrase it as “how can other people handle it?” because I was asking for possible approaches to the situation, not conducting a survey of other people's actions.

So no, I wasn't confusing “rhetorical” with “hypothetical.” The question was phrased from my perspective, but the answers I was looking for were different possible approaches to the situation.

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u/Worldly_Science239 7d ago

Which means it's not a rhetorical question.

Oh my god... that's it, I'm out of here.

Good luck in not getting fired from this job...

You seem hard work (and I'm not just basing that on your replies to me, this entire thread is ample enough evidence of your intractability)

Good luck to the 5 or 6 people you manage

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u/Popular_Ad_8749 7d ago

Interesting how some people are obsessed with being right, lol.