'I've noticed you took 3 bathroom breaks totaling 17 minutes. The team average is 12 minutes': Micromanager times employee's bathroom breaks, calls them out for taking too long

Some things in life are sacred, even at work. Nobody can make you feel bad for your trips to the bathroom. That's time for you and you alone. Nobody gets to know the details. It's your body, and you have a right to take care of your needs, and it's nobody else's business. This is generally understood by most people. We might all expect too much of each other and cross boundaries, but most of us know not to cross the bathroom boundary. 

Nobody likes to be micromanaged. We're adults, and most of us are used to having to manage ourselves. We know what we're doing, or at least we like to feel like we know what we're doing. When people treat us like children, it doesn't motivate us. It does the opposite of motivating us. I can't think of anyone who would thrive under micromanagement. It's just never a good strategy, even with kids. If we feel competent and independent, then we will be competent and independent, and everybody wins. It's one of Newton's laws of physics. 

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