After a Particularly Lengthy Bathroom Break a Boss Forces His Employee to Take PTO to Cover Time Lost; Hilarity Ensues in the Comments

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Nov 5, 2023 12:00 AM EDT

When nature calls, nature's calling. There's nothing you can do to stop it. Except, apparently some companies have found a way to wield their money-grubbing powers against employees whose bowels act first and ask questions later. Apparently the lesson in our next story is to watch where you spend company time, but for those of you who enjoy your freedom to choose your when you take your bathroom breaks, heed this fateful tale. 

Remember back in elementary school when the teachers would scold the kids who didn't use the restroom during recess? Well, for all of the children who suffered bladder-damage at the hand of a snarky rule-following Miss-so-and-so's out there, this story is for you. In this particular tale, one man with an irritable bowel felt the full force of the corporate stranglehold around his neck after taking a particularly lengthy bathroom break. As it was an emergency, he thought nothing of it– until he saw the red faced fury of his boss at his desk upon return. Scroll for this fiber-filled story of bodily functions at their least convenient moments, which nearly cost one employee some of his PTO time. 

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    My boss made me take paid time off for taking ал *** *bathroom break Yeah you read that right. I won't get into too much detail but because of something I ate at work for lunch that day I had to use the toilet after and it
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    Posted by u/thekingofyoutube 7 hours ago My boss made me take paid time off for taking a ….... Yeah you read that right. I won't get into too much detail but because of something I ate at work for lunch that day I had to use the toilet after and it was... well, not good news. I was on
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    the_... for longer than normal, around 30 minutes. So anyways, I get back to my desk, and my boss had been looking for me for the last half hour. He asked where I was and I told him that I was using the bathroom.
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    "For the last 30 minutes?" He says to me. Like... yeah buddy, I was taking a , who hasn't taken one that long before? Does he really want me to go into graphic detail about it?
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    Anyways, he then scolds me for taking another 30 minutes off right after my half hour long lunch break. I tried to tell him that it was an emergency but he wasn't having it. Eventually he
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    tells me that we're not allowed to take that much time off in the middle of the day without requesting it first and tells me that he is going to have to take 30 minutes of my PTO for the time I spent in the bathroom.
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    Like... ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? I WAS TAKING A AND YOU ARE GONNA USE MY PAID TIME OFF FOR THAT!? this job man. I barely get any time off to begin with. I guess I'll just send my boss a PTO request the next time I need to take a dump.
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    RueWanderer 7 hr. ago Request a few days of PTO and for the reason just put "bowel movement", since that's apparently a valid reason now
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    Healthy Direction659 · 6 hr. ago . Better yet have all your coworkers do the same thing.
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    Mystic Ranger - 7 hr. ago Self Employed + Full Time Childcare Time to start leaving at exactly endtime and arriving exactly on time. No more covering for others or anything extra.
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    The_Quicktrigger · 6 hr. ago Also time to work your wage. Meet your job goals and not a single point above. If they don't value OP enough to with making it an problem, then OP shouldn't give them anything above what they pay him for
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    reddrick 5 hr. ago Also work slowly, make a lot of mistakes, start conversations, and waste other people's time. Make sure that 30 mins of PTO costs them more than 30 mins of productivity.
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    . Fixerguy415 · 6 hr. ago Any time a boss comes at me about bathroom I simply tell them "I have a choice about where it's happening, not so much when or how long. You want me to use the bathroom, or my desk, or your desk?
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    billy_lam26 6 hr. ago : on Haha yeah I've used the old "I will gladly drop my pants and the ground if you ever complain about my bathroom breaks, and then afterwards you are free to explain to the company, the union, the ministry of labour if need be, and HR why exactly an employee was forced to defecate all over the floor instead of in a toilet". Never bothered me since.
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    Wactout 5 hr. ago my pants in a shop meeting before. Told the foreman I needed to use the bathroom really badly. (I have ibs-d). He told me I could wait. My couldn't. So I stood there with liquid gold running down my leg as the other mechanics were retching. I got written up for insubordination. I don't miss that job.
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    andychef 4 hr. ago Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime; that's why I on company time
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    aeroxan 4 hr. ago . OP should make sure the PTO deduction is documented for 'excessive bathroom break' or some BS like that. Then bring that to the DOL.
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    MaddBaggins. 4 hr. ago I'm reading this thread. at work while 6 Reply Share fjoralb95 4 hr. ago Me too.
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    gimmethelulz. 4 hr. ago It boggles me how many employers spend time thinking about their workforce's bathroom habits. I had no idea this phenomenon was so widespread.
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    purpldevl 3 hr. ago This woman had a tally and total of the time I spent in the bathroom for the past few days. I was sitting here like, "Yes, if I feel a bubblin', I'm going to the restroom. I'm not myself for the going to sake of time management."
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    baconraygun 2 hr. ago I once had a boss wait outside the bathroom, knocking every few seconds. I couldn't' hear what she said through the door, so I just kept saying "Just a minute!" When I was finally done (it was some ) she held me there for over ten minutes yelling at me. It was so incredibly dehumanizing.
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    purpldevl 2 hr. ago "Everyone look under your seats! You get an OSHA violation, and YOU get an OSHA violation! And YOU get an OSHA violation!"
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    . Please_do_not_DM_me · 6 hr. ago on you (lol) for Not sure they can taking a d mp. OSHA was pretty clear, when I read the regulations, that you need to be able to go without time restrictions if that's what's needed.
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