Was it ever not OK?

  • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    Disclosure: I’m in the UK where the worker protections are half-decent.

    was it ever not OK?

    It was not OK to not take a jobby on work time when you had the opportunity!

    I’ve worked shifts where my relief staffer has been in twenty minutes early (long commute, unpredictable traffic) so I’ve handed the shift over, and ensured that the remainder of my time was spent losing half a kilo of weight in five minutes. Conversely, it feels far more productive to leave the house half-needing to give birth to a brown otter, and nip to the bog once your feet are clear of your workload that you’ve taken on from the previous shift to go and perform the bowel movement while being paid for it.

    Shitting in my own khazi on my days off feels like voluntary work now.

    Sensibly though, any manager who controls bog time is just a bit of a fanny. Unless someone is obviously taking the piss like spending four hours of a ten hour shift, then people will perform better once they’ve laid a cable whenever they’ve needed to.

    • dmention7@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      American here. I’m choosing to believe that this is just a normal, everyday amount of poop-related slang for the UK, and that you’re not playing it up for comedic effect.

  • modifier@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    I am literally - and I’m 100% serious - pooping at work right now.

    Highly recommended.

  • OpenStars@discuss.online
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    3 months ago

    Amazon charges you for every minute spent in the lavatory, so best not to be too awfully thorough wiping and washing your hands…

    Side-note: it’s so funny to substitute different words for toilet there - if I said shitter how would that read differently?:-)

  • Carrolade@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Now, I’m sure she’s pretty used to the fame, but that’d still have to be a little weird for her to read.

    “Remember that everyone poops. Visualise someone famous on the toilet (like Taylor Swift),” is the first recommendation.

  • Adderbox76@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Can’t do it. Gotta poop at home. Thankfully I’m in a small community where getting home and back again is quick enough to not be missed.