I work as a vendor in one of the big grocery stores. Not one of the blue ones. They have been doing a lot of remodeling and the main bathrooms have been closed for both workers and the public. There are portable bathrooms outside, but they are not usually open until after 7am. Sometimes later if the staff forgets. I get there between 2am and 4am so I can pull my stock and do as much work as possible before the store opens without getting in the way of any of the other workers. The only available bathroom is in the back room, but it is also locked because someone did some graffiti. In order to use the bathroom while I am working, I have to ask permission from the guy who runs the back room, who is already rude to me as much as he can get away with. Several times in the last week, he has stopped working, told me that he is not even on the clock, grumpily awarded me the privilege of emptying my bladder, and gone back to work. On the white board with the schedules, it says his shift runs from 4a-12:30p. I just want to use the bathroom when I’m working. I wouldn’t even know he’s breaking the other law if he didn’t tell me himself. I don’t like having to defend myself. Especially at work. I am definitely in the Portland area. I wish he could just win several million dollars, so he could quit his job and never bother me again. If there’s anyone out there who cares about this shit, please help.

8 replies on “Workplace bully and federal laws”

  1. I don’t understand. Employers must provided workers with a bathroom. You don’t need to ask. If you do, I suggest you piss on the floor and quit. However if you are using the bathroom to get high, which I have seen people do at work, then you should be fired.

  2. OHH NO!

    I think I know who you’re talking about? Navy Guy? Modulated truck?

    Got those plug earrings, almost as big as his weenar?!

  3. are there

    no Bottles

    in this store

    for you to empty

    and then Refill with

    Any Liquid of Your Choice?

    B. one might Always

    document this impeccably

    sue the basterds for an arm

    & several legs, settle for a lousy

    Half a Mil and spend That on taunting

    Mr. Keymann

    when Life gives

    you Lemons

    make some

    fucking

    Juice.

  4. @1

    “I don’t understand.”

    We’re unsurprised.

    “Employers must provided workers with a bathroom.”

    well, Pee, they Are providing him one.

    a Locked one.

    “You don’t need to ask.”

    The Door Is LOCKED.

    “If you do, I suggest you piss on the floor and quit.”

    and do What,

    go on Welfare?

    “let’s see here, in your

    Previous Employment. you

    Urinated all over your Employer’s

    Wonderful Linoleum, walked out the door

    And Never Retuned. do I have that about right?”

    “However if you are using the bathroom to get high, which I have seen people do at work, then you should be fired.”

    if you Hang Out in the Bathroom long enough

    you’ll Likely see things that’ll Curl

    your Hair.

    Good comment.

  8. speaking of creating Victims:

    @7 — you ‘wouldn’t Know’?

    let’s recap:

    “If you [I, A] do [need

    Permisson to Use the

    Fucking Bathroom],

    I suggest you piss on

    the floor and quit.”

    –PSmith55 on October 4, 2024 at 6:46 AM

    I repeat myself:

    ‘and do What,

    go on Welfare?’

    you give out

    your maladvice

    as if it were Free

    but it’s worth less

    &’ll likely cause an Aw-

    ful big Bump in Portlandia’s

    unemployment & welfare numbers.

    c’mon, Pee.

    get With

    the Po-

    grom.

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