Bonus question, do you have a favorite work resteoom that’s out of the way and less likely to be disturbed?

I think my record is about 15 minutes and my favorite restroom is located on an unoccupied floor. Currently there scrolling lemmy ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

  • TwoTiredMice@feddit.dk
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    2 months ago

    I had a job as a human broom in a power plant. I had to dust off all the handrails at the plant. I can’t really remember, but I think it took a week to get all handrails dusted off, and when I got back to the beginning you could not see any difference. I was hired for 6 months. I could go a whole day without meeting any other employees. I had my own shed outside the plant with my own toilet.

    I spent the first 2-4 hours sleeping, then an hour or two cleaning, listening to music, and then spent whatever time I needed on the toilet during a day.

    Not the worst job I’ve had, haha. Quite chill.

  • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」@piefed.ca
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    2 months ago

    Not me but:

    Brooo omg my older brother SLEPT in the bathroom of a warehouse for TWO HOURS 🤣

    Like dude hid in a stall and just… wait how the fuck can you even sleep in the position?

    He never got caught lol

    My mom was like: “They’re gonna catch you slacking and then drag you out jn front of everyone to humiliate you”

    Mom told me that back in China, they micromanage every employee and you could never get away with being “afk” for 2 hours lmfao…

    But is a big place in that warehouse so its hard to notice someone gone for 2 hours…

    Then they started doing bathroom signout sheets… like wtf… are we still in K-12 school??? (it’s a unionized place too not sure whats going on now lol)

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      @WongKaKui @edg 15 years ago I had few friends working in a warehouse half of the people that worked there sleep while the other half worked, then they switch places… they even had some kind of hidden bedroom made of cartboard

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    2 months ago

    If you have a good recording of someone quietly sobbing to play you can avoid people hassling you

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    2 months ago

    Yes, my job has multiple offices in the area and I know where the secret shitters are in each of them. I’ve definitely occupied one for 15 minutes before.

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    I used to work in a kitchen and shit was stressful. I’d regularly have panic attacks in the bathroom for like an hour at a time

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    The worse the job is, the more my manager clocks my breaks, the more time I spend in the bathroom.

    Office job pro tip: Don’t ever let someone see you go into a bathroom. Even if you are only in there for 30 seconds, if someone sees you go in, then spots you again in the hallway half an hour later, they may assume you were in there for half an hour. I had to answer to this stupidity on my performance evals twice.

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    2 months ago

    I used to work in a sheet metal shop years ago back when I was an alcoholic. I was super hungover one day and just took a nap in the stall for an hour and change.

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    I haven’t needed to. I do a bit of driving around to our field locations so if I don’t want to work I make up and excuse to drive to a site an hour or 2 away, do an “on site audit” of our gear and travel back. The whole time I can listen to a podcast or an audiobook.

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      2 months ago

      I like doing that but have been too busy recently. I’ve also done it just do I can get lunch at a particular place.

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    2 months ago

    Literally on the potty now, not pooping. I don’t typically go for long periods of time but I go a LOT. Sometimes up to ten minutes if I’m extra sad.

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    40 minutes. I was hungover as fuck. I was visiting one of our locations abroad and nobody really knew me, plus I had an agenda that was mostly solo-stuff, so it was relatively easy to just hide until I was fit for work.

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    2 months ago

    My legs fall asleep after like 20 min so I would love some advice on extending my stay

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    2 months ago

    TL;DR; 4 hours every day for 3 months.

    Not the restroom but, a long time ago, a company tried to make me quit and fuck me in the ass in the process because of management issues to say the least. I was essential to the company and I knew it and they knew it, and they could not sue me because the boss was a famous bully in town (he still is).

    I once told them I would quit, and during the mandatory “3 months notice” (in France, equivalent to your 2 weeks notice in the USA but legally mandatory), I was watching movies and playing games in my car during lunch from 11 AM to 3 PM. 4 hours of pure fun and entertainment every day, which was half depression, and half watching every TV show out there.

    The software dev contract in France is usually “you have no specific hours, you don’t clock in/out, you’re free to organize your own time, but we don’t pay you overtime.” My boss told me that I was basically a slave because of that, and refused me some more work from home because he was petty. I took that as a hint that I could work whenever I wanted to. One lawyer friend of mine confirmed that it was legit as long as I quit. I did that as a small message to my bosses and middle managers, aka “fuck you and fuck you forever.”