I'm sick to death of people....

[Food Lady]

According to the LAW, yes I do. Bye!

Absolutely, what I was thinking!

[Food Lady]

TMI.............alert When I was very much younger and afraid to assert myself, I was having "women's issues" but the superviser refused to allow me a break ALL MORNING as we were short staffed and I didn't dare just get up.I did try asking a couple of times but was told I mustn't leave my department due to shoplifters and there was nobody to cover even for five minutes. By the time I was allowed a break after five hours, my light grey uniform trousers, as well as the chair I was sitting on, were ruined.And I was horribly embarrassed and I cried. I can still feel the embarrassment as I write about it. That's why people need regular breaks.

One time my female supervisor (who should've known better) denied me my break because I'd been in the bathroom too much and thus had used up my break time, in her opinion. Well, I told another supervisor my opinion, which was that I couldn't help it if I was hemmorhaging, and I said it in front of some of the guys for effect. I have no shame when need be.

[chainedbarista]

SC: I don't care! Why should you get a break when there are customers to be waited on?

Me: Because quite frankly I think I deserve one!

madam, after dealing with one too many people just like you, i need more than a break, i need a damned vacation.

ugh, people who won't break bills because they have change; i check to see if i have enough change, if i don't, i apologize and pay with the bill. no muss, no fuss and no drama.

as for the twat with the chocolate bars, better sillly than stupid. and speaking of stupid, hooray for your manager for sticking it to that assclown! woo, i think i'd at least buy him some lunch for that.

[Whiskey]

Well, I told another supervisor my opinion, which was that I couldn't help it if I was hemmorhaging, and I said it in front of some of the guys for effect. I have no shame when need be.

I've done this. "Well, you can let me go to the bathroom, or I'll just bleed all over the floor and everything else. I can't stop nature. "

I bleed like a gunshot victim when its that time. Thank you depoprovera for solving that issue.

[Marmalady]

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By the time I was allowed a break after five hours, my light grey uniform trousers, as well as the chair I was sitting on, were ruined.And I was horribly embarrassed and I cried. I can still feel the embarrassment as I write about it.

Oh god, I bet you can. Poor you. What is it with these people?

[TelephoneAngel]

Oh god, I bet you can. Poor you. What is it with these people?

What was worse, one of the guys who knew what had happened, spent several weeks embarrassing me further by keep deliberately saying things to me like "It's been BLOODY busy today hasn't it?"

[zombiequeen]

I've done this. "Well, you can let me go to the bathroom, or I'll just bleed all over the floor and everything else. I can't stop nature. "

I bleed like a gunshot victim when its that time. Thank you depoprovera for solving that issue.

Same here. Except I still do...it's just every three months now and I'm sooooo evil when it gets to be that time.

and TelephoneAngel, I've had the same thing happen to me, but I was standing and serving for about an hour, and I had a puddle on the floor at my feet. Three of my coworkers were about to rush me to the hospital because they thought I'd had a miscarriage. I ended up just going home and I got the next day off too because I was too weak to walk by the end of that shift.
How come some people don't care about girly problems? Do they enjoy making us cry during this emotional time in our lives?

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

According to the LAW, yes I do. Bye!

I did a labor law search and since my state has no independent labor laws on breaks we fall under the Federal Laws, but:

"The federal law on meal breaks is contained within the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The FSLA does not require employers to give employees meal or rest breaks, including lunch breaks."

Which means that where I am the law does NOT require for me to get any kind of break whatsoever, my employer has every right to work me 8 hours without one if they want (we do get breaks as a matter of company policy, but that's separate from the law).

[TelephoneAngel]

Which means that where I am the law does NOT require for me to get any kind of break whatsoever, my employer has every right to work me 8 hours without one if they want (we do get breaks as a matter of company policy, but that's separate from the law).

I don't beleive anyone, male or female could regularly go for eight hours at work without needing to pee.that would count as a "rest break". When I'm at work I have to pee every three hours or so.

[Wenchie]

I don't beleive anyone, male or female could regularly go for eight hours at work without needing to pee.that would count as a "rest break". When I'm at work I have to pee every three hours or so.

My company is nice... they don't require us to use our official break time to use the bathroom. I was so used to evil-medicaid-hell where I worked for 7 1/2 years where we made jokes about them assigning us catheters... they were that nasty about us using break/bathroom time. My job now? They're like "just remember to put your phone on DND when you walk away so it doesn't ring while you're gone!"

[zombiequeen]

Where I work in the summer they remind us to use the bathroom because we cannot leave during serving time.
It's funny about twenty minutes before serving, the manager would go "Did everybody go potty? C'mon, now's the time to do it!"
All we were required to do was let someone know we were going, at least us cooks did. Servers could go anytime they had a chance to.

[Kristev]

Restroom breaks are covered by OSHA.

[Mytical]

Restroom breaks are covered by OSHA.

Not to mention normal decency. I've had all my stuff out of the cart, on the belt, was the only person in line. Seen the cashier doing 'the dance', and told them. "I can wait or go to another line if you need a break." because..you know .. its the HUMAN thing to do.

[Marmalady]

What was worse, one of the guys who knew what had happened, spent several weeks embarrassing me further by keep deliberately saying things to me like "It's been BLOODY busy today hasn't it?"

I'd have reported him for that. Some things just aren't funny, and deliberately adding to a CW's distress is one of them.

[vikingchyk]

Is this why I get funny looks when I DO go return something to its proper place? It's like it's unnatural to look at something, realize I don't want it anymore, and go put it back where it was.

When I return things like that, people ask me for help, as if I work there. I probably don't help myself, since I sometimes tidy up displays, just on general principles I've never worked retail, but I was a library volunteer (mostly did reshelving) and it irks me to see things messed up due to others' laziness. Except at my house. A clutter bomb went off in there