Queensland Health lauded for social media campaign raising awareness of the dangers of ‘holding it in’

Was it ever not OK?

  • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.ukEnglish
    341·
    2 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.eeEnglish
      20·
      2 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.caEnglish
    272·
    2 months ago

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

    Highly recommended.

  • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
    132·
    2 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.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 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.

  • _____@lemm.eeEnglish
    61·
    2 months ago

    I don’t poo at work. No bidet, no shower, no go.

  • Adderbox76@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    2 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.

    • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
      51·
      2 months ago

      If the ultimate goal is to protect your health, holding it in us clearly worse than smelling a little bit of shit. You’re position is, quite literally, irrational.

      • Granbo's Holy Hotrod@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 months ago

        No, I hate that I can work from home and be comfortable but because C-Suite invested in the local lunch spot I have to sit in an office and have teams meetings with people in the cube next to me. You wanna shit with friends, go ahead. I like my bidet and soft TP.

        • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          I like my bidet and soft tp too. Although the to in my office isn’t bad, but it’s certainly more the bidet that I miss. Definitely prefer to shit at home, as most people do.

          But the implication of your first post was that it’s somehow unhealthy because the shit is now “inside you.” Which is what I was addressing, not the non stated claim that you simple prefer it for bidets and toilet paper.