• Employee Restroom Breaks

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 22 11:08:55 2024
    At Walmart today, an employee was at a urinal looking at his
    Smartphone with his other hand. I suspect across American, employees
    are taking too many restroom breaks.

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Tue Sep 24 21:12:29 2024
    On 2024-09-22, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:
    At Walmart today, an employee was at a urinal looking at his
    Smartphone with his other hand. I suspect across American, employees
    are taking too many restroom breaks.

    Could've been worse - he could've been at a urinal while looking at his smartphone with BOTH hands!

    Amazon locked down bathroom breaks somehow and everyone was outraged at
    the draconian heavy-handedness.

    Not sure what the truth is, but there are certainly many sides to it.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 24 18:57:03 2024
    On 24 Sep 2024 21:12:29 GMT, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid>
    wrote:

    Not sure what the truth is, but there are certainly many sides to it.

    I know of one texter who grew up on texting...very compulsive at
    responding, in his adult life.

    If he worked at a place like Walmart, he would be taking extra
    restroom breaks. It's an addiction....hooked on texting.

    Amazon locked down bathroom breaks

    A BBC report cited workers at the company's Coventry warehouse in
    England who said they are constantly monitored and "upbraided for an
    idle time lasting just a few minutes".



    As the workers of online retail giant Amazon hold strikes in the
    United Kingdom over pay, some have shared their ordeal of working in
    "severe" conditions at the company, with shocking claims that even
    their toilet breaks are timed. A BBC report cited workers at the
    company's Coventry warehouse in England who said they are constantly
    monitored and "upbraided for an idle time lasting just a few minutes".

    Two workers associated with UK's general trade body GMB revealed to
    BBC that Amazon uses a mechanism to recognise "great performance". BBC
    quoted Darren Westwood and Garfield Hilton saying that managers can
    even throw questions over workers' toilet trips. "The robots in the
    warehouse are treated better than us," one of them claimed.

    https://www.hindustantimes.com/business/at-amazon-we-are-questioned-over-toilet-breaks-workers-shocking-revelation-101674786870982.html

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 25 13:19:23 2024
    On 24 Sep 2024 21:12:29 GMT, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid>
    wrote:

    Could've been worse - he could've been at a urinal while looking at his >smartphone with BOTH hands!


    Pee-wee Herman would not do it that way.

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