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<blockquote data-quote="Brownnblue" data-source="post: 565269" data-attributes="member: 1941"><p>Good gravy, I can not let my my wife one up me!! </p><p> </p><p>Again, apologies for the delay in response.</p><p> </p><p>Let's say you run a company of about 15+ employees. While you pay them a excellent wage, you also demand that they work extremely hard to achieve management's ambiguous and often unrealistic goals. You communicate this subject of "restroom abuse" rather sternly to the group, citing your financial statistics while giving no real answers to what constitutes "appropriate restroom duration". You make a very deep impression on a couple of your newer employees, they feel that in order to avoid being put on the radar they will try to avoid the restroom altogether by limiting their fluid intake. Lo and behold, on a hot summer's day these two employees experience severe dehydration problems. Ambulance run. Emergency room visit. Probably some time off. Probably an OSHA visit. Does this add up to the $10,000 that you were throwing around in your previous post? No, probably not. But could your numbers also be viewed as inflated? You bet.</p><p> </p><p>I am not going to argue your point about making personal calls on company time. I am also not going to argue your point about going to the vending machine for orange cheezy doodles on company time. But that is not really what this post is about, now is it. I believe that the employee should already know that leaving the work area for the aforementioned activities on company time is not allowed. An emergency? Now that is a stretch. One could make the argument that an emergency is the reason the individual is in the restroom in the first place. Simply put, the respect and dignity that should be granted an individual to take care of a basic human function should outweigh the extremely remote possibility of any type of act of God emergency.</p><p> </p><p>It's business. And clearly, this business is operated by human beings who need to be treated with dignity and respect, and who need to take care of basic human functions as the need arises.</p><p> </p><p>If your complaining employees have not figured out that at UPS, a good hourly employee gets more work, I am sure they will come to that conclusion more sooner than later. I also have every confidence that if you really feel that an employee is stealing bathroom time, that you will find a way to get rid of that employee, one way or the other.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brownnblue, post: 565269, member: 1941"] Good gravy, I can not let my my wife one up me!! Again, apologies for the delay in response. Let's say you run a company of about 15+ employees. While you pay them a excellent wage, you also demand that they work extremely hard to achieve management's ambiguous and often unrealistic goals. You communicate this subject of "restroom abuse" rather sternly to the group, citing your financial statistics while giving no real answers to what constitutes "appropriate restroom duration". You make a very deep impression on a couple of your newer employees, they feel that in order to avoid being put on the radar they will try to avoid the restroom altogether by limiting their fluid intake. Lo and behold, on a hot summer's day these two employees experience severe dehydration problems. Ambulance run. Emergency room visit. Probably some time off. Probably an OSHA visit. Does this add up to the $10,000 that you were throwing around in your previous post? No, probably not. But could your numbers also be viewed as inflated? You bet. I am not going to argue your point about making personal calls on company time. I am also not going to argue your point about going to the vending machine for orange cheezy doodles on company time. But that is not really what this post is about, now is it. I believe that the employee should already know that leaving the work area for the aforementioned activities on company time is not allowed. An emergency? Now that is a stretch. One could make the argument that an emergency is the reason the individual is in the restroom in the first place. Simply put, the respect and dignity that should be granted an individual to take care of a basic human function should outweigh the extremely remote possibility of any type of act of God emergency. It's business. And clearly, this business is operated by human beings who need to be treated with dignity and respect, and who need to take care of basic human functions as the need arises. If your complaining employees have not figured out that at UPS, a good hourly employee gets more work, I am sure they will come to that conclusion more sooner than later. I also have every confidence that if you really feel that an employee is stealing bathroom time, that you will find a way to get rid of that employee, one way or the other. [/QUOTE]
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