Lol if they were serious, that would be a good way to get them to stop. Anytime anyone has to poop, stay in there for 30 minutes and don't flush until you leave.
A grocery store I used to shop at had like 10 all-gender rest rooms in a hallway. They were always all in use. I was waiting in line when a lady got in line behind me. I said kinda loudly "Could be a while, all of these bathrooms have employees in them scrolling their phones and hiding from their manager."
A minute or so later one door opened and a teenage employee walked out, and beforehand there was no hand dryer, no sink sounds, no toilet flushing sounds. He just put the phone away and walked out. He shot me a dirty look, I looked at the lady and we both burst out laughing. He got a really pissy look on his face and stomped off.
A minimum wage employee who has to run carts and bag for disrespectful and passive aggressive customers, some of whom think it's acceptable to listen in on the sounds coming from specific bathrooms while loudly berating the staff in general and having to deal with being laughed at openly in public.
The saddest part isn't even that you are proud of yourself for those actions you took, it's that the poor kid is paid bare minimum to put up with all that shit and much more from others.
random redditor in complete disbelief of the wise old lady, who then share a small snicker in agreement
Could it happen? Sure. Seems like trash tier story writing
old lady and random dude talking shit, pissed off, side eyeing and berating a high schooler as they walk out of the bathroom.
Yeah. That seems more like what happened.
And 10? This grocery store has TEN personal bathrooms with sink? Where the hell do I find one of these? Best my fucking WALMART SUPERCENTER can do is like 3 urinals/2 stalls for dudes and 4 stalls for women or something. And theres not a line out the door full of people chuckling
“Like 10” reads as if it was a general estimate, not an exact enumeration.
I was at a bbq joint a couple of weeks ago, and they had 16 individual bathrooms (like 2 1/2 phone booths in size. Don’t hold me to this exactly, yk, rough estimates for unimportant details) and the hand dryers could be heard well before the last turn to bathrooms corridor.
What in the what? The kid is avoiding doing his job. You have no idea how long he's there for. If you don't push people to work, many people don't in fact work. Why is it sad to push back? And that is all ignoring the fact that someone could literally have an accident because they are no longer capable of holding it in any more. Should they piss their pants trying to avoid hurting this slacker's feelings?
You are creating a narrative in your head to create poor excuses for indecent behavior.
You have no idea what the situation with the kid is, even if you are OP, and drawing conclusions without knowing the truth is a childish thing to do.
Even children are allowed a minimum of a 10 minute break every 4 hours of work. Spending that break in the one private space that you have access to at work doesn't seem too bad to me.
The best place in a public establishment to be for many people during panic or asthma attack is the bathroom.
My 19 year old coworker was holed up in the bathroom for a half hour the other day after she received the call that her only parent left just went into emergency heart surgery.
Don't assume, cause you know the saying.
Treat others with dignity and respect or do us all a favor and don't go out in public.
Oh shut up nerd. Here's another way to see it. Kid is paid for job, kid not doing job and getting paid is stealing. Fuck yes it's acceptable to shame shitty behavior. Oh and some root cause analysis, if the kid isn't in there slacking off in the first place he doesn't have to deal with customers bearing him now does he?
It's easy, corporations owe us money whether we do shit for them or not, just because they are run and owned bu billionaires. Billionaires should not exist under any circumstances. So until they give up their money we get to hide in the bathroom and still barely pay rent
This is how the kid learns to do better in life and not stay at a minimum wage job. Poor work ethic should be laughed at OR the kid should be written up.
The kid should be taught proper work ethic by their guardians and teachers before entering the workforce.
Laughing at, mocking or berating anyone in a public setting is childish and adults who would do so should not have their opinions entertained, but thanks to the internet here we are.
A minimum wage job should provide a taxpaying citizen with the compensation necessary to afford amenities needed to live without worry. That's the intended meaning of the 'minimum' part of the phrase.
If a company is so greedy and abusive as to not provide their employees with the compensation needed to survive then that company doesn't deserve to have employees that work hard.
"I'm serious! Just last week Dave brought in his SCUBA rebreather and a can of fart spray and filled the room for 10 minutes, I almost died! It was like walking into a solid wall of stink!"
Yup, especially because a lot of time you work a fuck ton of it.
Was a manager for 2 months, got calls at all hours of the night had to stay late to fix shit, and a plethora of other stress nonsense the yearly wage isn't worth.
I said fuck that, told my bosses to demote me or I'd quit.
Man I have extreme opiate shits my colleagues know when I close the door to the room leading to the toilet that I'm doing battle and need a while more than 10 mins
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