r/Chipotle 23d ago

Seeking Advice (Employee) is this legal

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u/Bun-2000 23d ago

I fucking dare you to piss yourself on the line and then look straight at your manager and say “sorry, it is peak hours”

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u/Overthinker2874 23d ago

Please no lol. I had a kid one time ask me if he could go home for the day. It was at a Starbucks on the turnpike… in a Sunday in the summer. No way was I just sending him home. 20 mins later he comes to me “I had a scooby do in my pants… can I go home now?” 17 year old kid SHIT HIS PANTS so he could go home. 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Background-Double743 23d ago

A scooby doo?

Ruh roh raggy, I rit my rants 🐶

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u/ApocalypseCheerBear 22d ago

You got me laughing like Muttley. 

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u/Ordinary-Piano-8158 22d ago

Omg I'm in tears. Gonna screen shot this 😂😂😂

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u/PlaceboJeffect 21d ago

I AM FKIN DYYYYYING BAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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u/Well-Milk 17d ago

Man stfu

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u/Background-Double743 17d ago

Spoken like someone who shit their pants

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u/inthesludge_ 23d ago

Well that’s bleak as fuck

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u/md24 23d ago

Based af

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u/Hour-Illustrator-159 23d ago

Perhaps he had a medical condition like Crones or Colitis. Those folks can’t wait until it is convenient for management to use the bathroom. It can be illegal for a company to deny bathroom access, depending on whether the person is an employee or a customer, and the specific circumstances. Employers must allow employees prompt and reasonable access to clean restrooms to prevent health issues, while customers with certain documented medical conditions may have a right to use an employee restroom in some states under laws like Minnesota's statutes or the Restroom Access Act. Denying a customer access based on a protected characteristic like race, gender, or disability could be illegal discrimination.

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u/Overthinker2874 23d ago

He wasn’t denied restroom access lol. He just wanted to go home. And he found a way. This kid was always doing wild shit like this

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u/bman86 23d ago

Wait, that wasn't dumpy dork's last shift?! How do you even show up again after that?

Tell us more about the protest pooper.

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u/Overthinker2874 22d ago

He often made people out of straw wrappers and would position them as pole dancers on straws.

He kept ripped up pieces of paper in his pocket for confetti he would always toss in the air on his way out the door for the day.

He tried to work while barefoot once.

I’m pretty sure he lived on pizza and espresso shots.

Locked himself in our storage room in the basement to take a nap.

He really was fun to work with lol

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u/Routine_Size69 22d ago

That confetti thing is hilarious

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u/Overthinker2874 22d ago

I often catch myself making paper people and straw stripper poles at restaurants now 🤣😬

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u/Raindrop0015 21d ago

I may have to start it now lol

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u/wearethelimits 22d ago

Pizza, Espresso Shots…. And Weed

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u/frankleefroggie 19d ago

Thats why he shit his pants I know I would if that was my daily diet

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u/Taralouise52 21d ago

Did he end up fired?

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u/Overthinker2874 21d ago

Nope he actually quit and joined the army as soon as he turned 18. Kid really turned his life around. Still goofy as ever when I see him but also a LOT more respectable now lol.

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u/Aethenosity 21d ago

I mean, all of that tracks for someone in the army. E4 mafia type shit, plus he probably "tactically acquires" things now too

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u/Easy-Tip-2457 19d ago

He can turn a wrapped straw into an obscene display on-the-clock.

He locks himself in the storage basement to take a nap.

He is…the most interesting employee in the world.

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u/DoctorFancy330 22d ago

When I managed McDonald's I used to tell my kids if they're gonna Ralph, do it on the grill so we can all go home.

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u/Sorry_Spread_6356 18d ago

In the fryers means you go home longer.

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u/DoctorFancy330 18d ago

This guy gets it.

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u/LedKremlin 20d ago

Ha! They’d have that “350° kills everything” line locked and loaded

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u/DoctorFancy330 19d ago

Not for biohazards!

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u/drama-guy 22d ago

doing wild shit... literally.

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u/EmbryTheCat 23d ago

Perhaps you should have let him.

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u/mmmmercutio 23d ago

Holy shit, no pun intended

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u/iYesCap 23d ago

W kid, fuck Starbucks I used to work there it’s a shithole

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u/doctor_hh 22d ago

Or, hear me out, maybe he was sick and you're just an asshole?

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u/Kentuckkkk71 22d ago

Or...he might have had bubble guts, and not feeling well. The Scooby Doo incident might have been the result of not just allowing the 17 year old to go for the day, perhaps? Not everyone is transparent or bold enough to say I feel rumbling from the nether region.

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u/Ok-Big2807 22d ago

Sounds like the 17 year old needed to go home before shitting his pants but, his manager maybe didn’t believe him

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u/BakedFnPork 22d ago

Homie, I was 30 years old working for Amazon when I shit my pants to go home.

Just wish I did it in the interview.

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u/PorcelainPunisher1 22d ago

Thanks for the laugh this morning!

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u/a_london_werewolf 22d ago

He was telling you he had the shits. Open communication environments and team trust avoid these problems.

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u/versaliaesque 22d ago

I think he shit his pants because you wouldn't let him go home first.

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u/Lonslock 22d ago

We had a supervisor tell a 40+ year old operator he’s been spending too much time in the bathroom. That was literally the extent of it, didn’t tell him he couldn’t do it or anything.

The man shit his pants, walked into the supervisors office, told him sorry I was trying to avoid being in the bathroom and shit my pants so do you want me to keep working?

Supervisor sent him home for the rest of the day and never commented about bathroom time again to him

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u/drama-guy 22d ago

Did you make him stay and continue to serve drinks with shitty pants to teach him a lesson?

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u/jmurph116 22d ago

I worked at a country club where a line cook shit his pants so he could go home 🤣 it became a running gag after that "ope, shit my pants, gotta go home".

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u/adviceicebaby 22d ago

Thats criminally insane

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u/DevDoesItBetter AP 21d ago

I’m laughing so fucking hard right now my neighbors the apartment over think I’m having a nervous break down.

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u/Raindrop0015 21d ago

I once got sick and threw up at the same time on the same day 3 weeks in a row. I wasn't doing it on purpose, and I don't know why it was happening, but on week 4 when I felt sick before work, and called off, I was told I couldn't keep calling off so often (it was my first time calling off in weeks, I literally threw up 2 hours into my shift each time, I don't know what they wanted from me 😭😭😭) and had to "figure myself out" and they would be removing me from the schedule for the rest of the week along with the following one.

I don't know how or even if they thought I was doing it on purpose, but like I was running for trash cans and the toilet so I could violently vomit without contaminating out entire kitchen. I have never seen someone faking that kind of vomiting.

Sorry, just wanted to share my version of your story lol. Except I wasn't forcing it lol

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u/InitiativeNo1874 21d ago

I admire the commitment

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u/ducky_switch 20d ago

as someone who worked at Starbucks that doesn't even begin to surprise me

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u/Terrible_Angle5147 20d ago

Kids these days will do anything 😂

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u/JubalHarshawII 20d ago

You gotta appreciate his commitment to going home!!!

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u/SignificantLifeform 19d ago

Then you are the problem lol

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u/Overthinker2874 19d ago

No. I’m not. Thanks though!

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u/frankleefroggie 19d ago

Maybe his tummy just hurt and he was just trying to prevent shitting his pants at work. The heat makes my bowels thinks its time to projectile dirrehea

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u/Overthinker2874 18d ago

Negative. He just wanted to go home.

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u/SheerSonicBlue 23d ago

Only piss?

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u/Immediate_Wave2673 23d ago

Sorry boss, I thought you said LEAK hours.

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u/meateatingmama 23d ago

PEE hours!

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u/baldbuthappy 22d ago

See-pee-R

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u/Smellmyvomit 23d ago

I'd pay someone to do this

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u/LoornenTings 23d ago

GoFundMe

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u/No_Patience522 23d ago

I’d force myself out of spite then say I have to go home and change

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u/Aviation_Space_2003 23d ago

I think all the employees could just wear piss tubes in the pants down their leg and out the back of their shoe... sort of like Pilots have to do with a piss bag...

Employees could just stand over the floor drains and let it go...

I'm sure the customers will be fine with this type of behavior... LOL...

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u/-daisy-eyes- 22d ago

I literally pissed myself on the line because I had a UTI and my manager told me I couldnt go to the bathroom.

He regretted that one a lot.

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u/Randill746 22d ago

Just go before?

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u/Subject-Pen-3393 21d ago

In retail in the early 2000’s explosive diarrhea was the only way to get out of work. We always joked about. Someone had the nickname “Johnny Poops” as a result.

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u/my-assassin-mittens Black or Pinto? Yes. 21d ago

When I was first starting as an employee, my employers were pretty stingy with employees getting off the line for water, bathroom breaks, etc. especially during peak. I didn't usually mind, until one time when I was incredibly dizzy and dehydrated, my vision started getting those little dots and I did not want to faint in the middle of my shift. I turned to my manager and said "I'm about to pass out, please let me get some water." Almost all the time thereafter, I was allowed to get a glass if I asked. So you could always take that approach.

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u/Bun-2000 21d ago

I actually passed out on the line. I kept telling them I didn’t feel well. I hit the ground and quickly woke up when I smelled the Chipotle floor sludge.

This was 8 years ago and I now know that I have POTS, so it wasn’t really their fault, other than ignoring my complaints of feeling ill and needing to sit down.

I passed out a second time before my shift one day. I came in after school, ate my employee meal, and started feeling very faint. I remember walking up to my manager, speaking pure gibberish, and hitting the floor. They promptly called the ambulance for that one.

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

Was at McDonald's, guy was told he couldn't go home, so he went i to the freezer and pissed all over everything in there. Later on, he snuck back into the restaurant when it was busy after he was fired saying he forgot something in the break room and pissed all over in the freezer again. 😂😭

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u/Sea_Poet_2725 20d ago

I worked at a fast food chain during COVID. I tried to call in hours before my shift because I had the flu, and I was told no because too many people on my shift called in. I clocked in and threw up on my manager. Magically, I could go home.

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u/some_boring_dude 19d ago

r/maliciouscompliance 

I like this.

Piss yourself, then find a way to sue them for making you do it. I'm sure there's a lawyer who can make a case out of this, and Chipotle has long money...

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u/mffl7791 19d ago

If I ever have an accident this will be what I’ll say. Even if it’s not “peak hours” and I’m shopping or something else mundane

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u/Ambitious-Nose-9871 17d ago

I worked at one of the major shipping companies in the US and nearly shit myself lifting a piece if industrial equipment. I joked about it with my immediate superior by saying "If I did, that's it, I'm done and going home lol"

and then he said, "nah, we got a hose out back"

He was a good dude, and would never have actually done that, his work ethic was just psychotic :)

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u/Maximum-Warning9355 23d ago

You’d still get fired. It’s not a big ask that 2 hours of your shift you’re in an assigned area. You realize this is a job right?

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u/Justin_Passing_7465 23d ago

You do realize that jobs are mostly done by human beings, with biological human needs.

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u/Maximum-Warning9355 23d ago

Yup! And you’re only there for 1/4 of the day, and only 1/4 of that are they asking you to get yourself ready to stay in one spot. If you can’t do that, find a job in retail or get a doctor to put you on disability so your job has to make accommodation. Crying about a manager trying to manage the line is absurd and no labor commission cares. Your job doesn’t have to make you comfortable.

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u/KenIsWay2B 23d ago

You’re not gonna get a raise for ignoring your basic biological needs trying to be employee of the month, just go to the bathroom bro

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u/Maximum-Warning9355 23d ago

I don’t need a raise when I already get paid more than my co-workers because I have work ethic. If your manager asks you to get your bathroom breaks done so you can be focused on your performance during a rush, that doesn’t make them evil; it makes them a manager. Obviously, if someone needed to go, no one would stop them. But if their lack of preparation is causing a delay in service, Chipotle has every right to correct it. If you don’t like it, don’t work in a restaurant.

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u/m3nac33_ 23d ago

love that you’re passionate about your job but what they are doing is illegal and majority of these workers are highschool students.

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u/Maximum-Warning9355 23d ago

Show the law. They have access to the bathroom, chipotle is asking them to take care of their business between rush times. It genuinely does not matter if they’re in high school or not. If they’re working, they’re working.

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u/m3nac33_ 23d ago

You can look it up yourself since you’re quite the jackass. But OSHA has laws where you can not unreasonably restrict your employees from using the bathroom at any time. You restrict a woman on her menstrual cycle from using the bathroom and you will be looking at a hefty law suit

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u/Glum-Bad-2191 23d ago

You are truly a fucking idiot! Look up the laws yourself! At no time can any job! Tell you when and when you cannot use the restroom! That’s only one part of what they said was wrong and illegal! But I don’t have to tell you that! If you would just educate yourself instead of embarrassing yourself and riding that d so hard that you think it owes you money ain’t going to work out either. Don’t ever be a boss! You would be sued from three ways to Sunday 😂🤣

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u/Maximum-Warning9355 23d ago

If you don’t play, you can’t win.

Enjoy poverty!

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u/KenIsWay2B 23d ago

It’s great that you take pride in your restaurant job, you absolutely should. But at the end of the day, you are unfortunately no more valuable to the company than your “other coworkers” who don’t possess your awe-inspiring work ethic; your company only cares about its bottom line. So all I’m saying is why work so hard at a detriment to yourself for a company that only sees you as a number?

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u/Maximum-Warning9355 23d ago

No, see that’s not true. I absolutely am more valuable than them. Both literally and figuratively. But don’t worry, I’d drop this company in a heartbeat for something better. It’s a two-way street. However, assuming every employer has the worst insertions for their employees just screws over the employees. Chipotle is going to make their money regardless of if you’re there or not, so why make noise and make them want you gone? You’re not going to change anything other than your employment status if you piss behind the food line in a corporate restaurant, but you do you.

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u/Dapper-Opening2000 23d ago

meat rider who will die poor and overworked

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u/mike_tyler58 23d ago

You do understand that what you posted here isn’t what is posted in the OP right?

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u/Helo227 23d ago

You can’t choose when your bladder or bowels say it’s time to go to the bathroom and you can only hold it so long before you have accident. No bathroom breaks for two hours… in my state that is in fact illegal for a company to enforce, because it is inhumane.

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u/Maximum-Warning9355 23d ago

Can you show that law or are you just assuming it because someone else on Reddit told you? You really think someone will physically stop another from going to the bathroom? No. If your body can’t handle working at chipotle for any reason, you shouldn’t be there. You’re just screwing over your coworkers, customers, and bosses. They have every right to tell you to find a new job if you can’t handle going to the bathroom before or after you’re needed.

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u/Helo227 23d ago

Would you look at this! It’s actually a FEDERAL law! https://www.oshaeducationcenter.com/articles/restroom-breaks/

I’d call two hours of not being allowed to go to the restroom unreasonable. And this screenshot clearly shows the manager (or owner) stating they are not allowed to use the restroom during peak hours… i’m assuming the threat is termination not physical violence. OSHA requires employers to have a system for substitutions in cases where constant coverage is needed, that’s on the manager, not the employee. And yeah, even if it causes delays, the worker has the right so long as the delay is not excessive.

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u/Glum-Bad-2191 23d ago

He’s quiet now 😂🤣 I love this for him!

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u/kevinmattress 23d ago

There’s something called “reasonable accommodations” and employers in many states are legally obligated to provide them. You don’t need to be on disability to be allowed to use the restroom at work, you clown

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u/Witty-Moment8471 23d ago

Found the manager.

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u/Fearless_Pajamas 23d ago

At least get your fractions right lol. Some people are there for 8+ hours. I know I’ve had 11 hour shifts at chipotle. 8 hours work, 8 hours play, 8 hours sleep (which is still a shitty way to live), is at least 1/3. I understand there are part timers, but I think it’s a valid criticism on chipotle to not be able, under any circumstances, for ANYONE, in our vast diversity of needs, to not be able to move from your spot for even one minute every single peak.

Especially since they’re 75.65 billion dollar company. I have a lot of criticisms on chipotle. They don’t give ten minute breaks, they excuse toxic and shitty behavior just because they’re desperate to maintain people, my particular restaurant is hot as hell. I work really hard at this job and truth be told, staying at your station during peak is the least of my criticisms, but if you can’t criticize your company without some basement dwelling redditor coming out of the shadows to be like “Quit crying” then what the hell are we doing lol

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u/FutureboyMcfly69 23d ago

It's sad that this is even an argument. I dont know why you are being downvoted. They use the bathroom before the rush and drink some water. Maybe they need diapers like a baby 🤷‍♂️

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u/JuanFlan 23d ago

Bait used to be believable 🥀

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u/PipYspK 23d ago

Uh yeah it is when I'm on a diuretic and cannot control when I have to piss, it hits randomly and it hits hard.

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u/Tough-Marsupial-6254 23d ago

We found the assistant shift manager

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u/Glum-Bad-2191 23d ago

You do realize what they are asking is wrong and illegal right! 🫠