must ask permission to go to the restroom - Page 2 - Brown Cafe

stevetheupsguy · 07-01-2009, 06:30 PM

Anybody with a sense of Modesty, would mind this tactic.

UpstateNYUPSer · 07-01-2009, 06:35 PM

Anybody with a sense of Decorum would mind this tactic.

dilligaf · 07-01-2009, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by UpstateNYUPSer

Anybody with a sense of Decorum would mind this tactic.

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Originally Posted by stevetheupsguy

Anybody with a sense of Modesty, would mind this tactic.

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Originally Posted by UpstateNYUPSer

Anybody with a sense of decency would mind this tactic.

City Driver · 07-01-2009, 07:14 PM

we are an open dock and its just piss, and the piss is goin on the concrete outside

it dont bother me......if i step in a little piss with my boots its not gonna bother me, i stepped in much worse

bigbrownhen · 07-01-2009, 07:59 PM

Sorry dude, that is nasty. I can understand a tree out in the country, but not where someone could step in it. I have stepped in worse as well, but cows and dogs aren't the smartest creatures known to man.

buni g · 07-01-2009, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by City Driver

honestly if your on the dock or in the yard and you only have to piss, the best thing to do is just piss between 2 trailers that way u dont have to walk all the way to the bathroom

overnite didnt even care when we did that, its 10x quicker and your just pissing on concrete

we had a dock worker fired for doing just this. i find this practice along with piss bottles to be disgusting, lame and LAZY. think about it driving down the road piss in a bottle oops got some on my hands grab the steering wheel and continue on with your drive next driver get to hold onto your urine. oops pissed on the seat next driver unwittingly gets to sits on your urine. are you diaper trained or what. wow i was ranting i won't apologize.

back to the original post. yeah i guess they have a right to know where you are but i don't see how they can deny you. we have guys that will sit in the can and text msg the whole time maybe thats why they are pressing the issue.

buni g · 07-01-2009, 08:12 PM

hell come to think of it we had a driver fired for doing that at a customer site (had him on candid camera) he got his job back though cause they took longer than 10 days (as per the contract) to decide what to do.

Mike23 · 07-01-2009, 08:30 PM

Here's how you screw with our prepuberty sups in this situation.

Fill a bottle with apple juice and tell'em you really have to go. If he says no, go get your bottle and poor it infront of him. You COULD get in trouble for it but never heard of anyone being in trouble for pouring out apple juice

I had one of those little punks tell me he wanted to 'take it across the street' with me. I was tempted to call the 800 # on'em but why bother? They don't get fired or relocated. They get told to say they're sorry and they'll never do it again...Maybe he wanted to buy me an ice cream?

I wish UPS would hire a young manager who's danglers have actually dropped (trying to come up with a new term for that is tough! Hope it doesn't get edited

). Or even better, sups who don't live with their mommy and daddy anymore. Maybe then they could get a grip on reality.

MonavieLeaker · 07-01-2009, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by UpstateNYUPSer

Here at UPS we have indoor plumbing.

Lulz

trenjct · 07-01-2009, 10:05 PM

Don't touch. Leave area. Notify supervisor..... so he can call for the HazMat responder to clean up the nice biological specimen you just left all over your work area.

JimJimmyJames · 07-02-2009, 12:05 AM

I believe management has the right to know that you are using the bathroom. But they cannot deny the use. So I would tell my supervisor that I am using the bathroom but I surely wouldn't ask his permission to do so.

thelus · 07-02-2009, 01:33 AM

i say take a dookie on the sups clipboard

tieguy · 07-02-2009, 04:01 AM

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Originally Posted by City Driver

we are an open dock and its just piss, and the piss is goin on the concrete outside

it dont bother me......if i step in a little piss with my boots its not gonna bother me, i stepped in much worse

you had a lot of sympathy here when you started this thread. this response won't score any points. People do not want to smell your urine much less step through it or touch it.

bubsdad · 07-02-2009, 04:30 AM

The only "valid" reason for relieving yourself between two trailers would be that you are just too lazy to walk to the restroom. You don't have to have permission to use the restroom, but you have to notify your supe that you are going to use it. I can understand why they have a problem with it. There are those employees who abuse this just like anything else.

over9five · 07-02-2009, 05:08 AM

I agree with informing the sup you will be in the restroom.

But asking permission implies that the sup is able to deny the request. That's where there is a problem.

I have to believe that any problem of people abusing restroom use has to be very few and far between. Perhaps these employees need to be spoken to privately instead of beginning a ridiculous policy.

paidover95 · 07-02-2009, 05:20 AM

we had a sup tell a guy about 15 years ago during a ojs ride he couldnt go the bathroom until his approved break time.so he peed in someone front yard after making the delivery,was fierd,then reinstated on his driving job by the union

ORLY!?! · 07-02-2009, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by City Driver

yes you read that right

we got a 19 year old supervisor on the dock who thinks that hes the terminal manager...he announced at the meeting that you must ask him or another supervisors permission to go to the restroom or to get a drink of water, for all jockeys and dockworkers...he said this is because we are not suppose to be going to the restroom or the breakroom to get water unless we are on break (and the breakroom is the only place with drinking water)

its basically the biggest crock of s*** ever and wont hold up for a second.....we all told him we will not be following this, you cant tell me or anybody else when or if we can go to the restroom, or if we are in there for too long

i believe in obey now grieve later, but not on this situation, this is just ridiculous

stewards and business agents already been notified and they all said that he can not do this

No, just go.

If you gotta go you gotta go man! If they retracked then this person could claim they are working them as slaves.

Theres no way a person in a work place cloud claim anything on someones natural calls of nature. I go when I please, nouth said.

jennie · 07-02-2009, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by evilleace

You guys should ask him to write you a bathroom pass like in elementary school so the other supervisors know you are allowed to go to the bathroom.

I am cracking up, I say that all the time "hey, you got a hall pass" hahaha, because they do look at you with cross eyes if you gotta go, maybe the stupidvisors<<(never heard that one) wear depends and go in there pants.

Mike57 · 07-02-2009, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by KidUPS

Employer has a right to know where you are at at all times in case of emergency. Work as directed. Now he must be accountable to being present at all times (unless he is working with a group of mang. employees.)

Yes, That is correct . Just say I'm headed to use to restroom, then let him/her know when you get back!

fethrs · 07-02-2009, 04:29 PM

I usually say I'll be right back, but if sup shouts out "Wher are you going?" so half the building can hear, I shout back "To go pee, you want to watch?" My sup doesn't like that but the guys get a laugh out of it. I don't like to do it but sometimes I needs too.

tieguy · 07-02-2009, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by over9five

I agree with informing the sup you will be in the restroom.

But asking permission implies that the sup is able to deny the request. That's where there is a problem.

I have to believe that any problem of people abusing restroom use has to be very few and far between. Perhaps these employees need to be spoken to privately instead of beginning a ridiculous policy.

Its possible our 19 year old jim casey has not discovered this secret yet.

tieguy · 07-02-2009, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by ORLY!?!

No, just go.

If you gotta go you gotta go man! If they retracked then this person could claim they are working them as slaves.

Theres no way a person in a work place cloud claim anything on someones natural calls of nature. I go when I please, nouth said.

thats your right. However where you can get your but in trouble is by not informing the supervisor that you are going. You at least have to follow that part of the instruction. If the sup is stupid enough to try to deny you the trip then thats on him. Just go with no conversation and you open up the failure to follow instructions bag of tricks.

Also keep in mind that there really is nothing in the contract that says we have to pay you for the time you're in the bathroom or break room. So they can insist you code yourself out to break if you go. The whole issue gets ugly at that point.

thus my point that I think City and his group needs to police thierselves to ensure they are not abusing the privledge of being paid for the time you go to the bathroom or break room.

What'dyabringmetoday??? · 07-02-2009, 06:43 PM

Another great topic to waste a lot of time on. Maybe if supervisors worried half as much about taking care of the customers as they do about whether or not we should be paid to pee, we would be much better off.

Customer: How come we get a different driver and delivery time everyday?

Supervisor: We had to make sure they were not peeing on our time. Sorry.

MonavieLeaker · 07-02-2009, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by What'dyabringmetoday???

Another great topic to waste a lot of time on. Maybe if supervisors worried half as much about taking care of the customers as they do about whether or not we should be paid to pee, we would be much better off.

Customer: How come we get a different driver and delivery time everyday?

Supervisor: We had to make sure they were not peeing on our time. Sorry.

Lawl

tieguy · 07-02-2009, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by What'dyabringmetoday???

Another great topic to waste a lot of time on. Maybe if supervisors worried half as much about taking care of the customers as they do about whether or not we should be paid to pee, we would be much better off.

Customer: How come we get a different driver and delivery time everyday?

Supervisor: We had to make sure they were not peeing on our time. Sorry.

we sometimes forget that an important part of taking care of the customer is controlling cost.

You could also make the argument that the sort may not be making its service committments to get everything moved and processed on time if they have people constantly in the bathroom or break room instead of doing thier jobs.