Employee asks to work remotely while office bathroom is out of order, boss denies request: 'I’ve been skipping food and water from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. on office days'

One of the hallmarks of an unnecessarily harsh work environment is when your concerns as an employee are not taken seriously. This can manifest itself in a variety of scenarios. For instance, you could raise serious questions about how a process is handled and have your opinions be completely disregarded. You could pose questions about unfair or even unsafe working conditions and have those valid ideas ignored or even rejected.

This case, which primarily centers on the latter scenario, involves an employee whose health condition requires her to have quick and easy access to a bathroom should the need arise. This, of course, seems pretty easy to work around. However, when the women's bathroom on her floor was out of order, her needs were entirely rejected based on the fact that her condition wasn't "serious" or "visible." Talk about an easy avenue to jeopardize your legal standing as an employer! Keep scrolling below for the full saga and for the best reactions from members of the online community!

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To make matters even worse, when the employee requested to work remotely while the bathroom was out of order, her supervisor told her that she could make it work for one day. She even went so far as to threaten the author by saying that if productivity should plummet during this time, they may need to re-evaluate her performance abilities. Again, talk about an easy way to get sued!
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