Re: Employee Restroom Breaks

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