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Re:Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds by cmrdporcupine on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:45PM (#24355740)
You think you can just take a bathroom break every time you like when you're working retail? Most people I know have worked a retail job or service industry job where they have assigned break periods, and bathroom usage outside of those would be impossible, or very frowned upon.

I guess some people in this industry had parents with enough money to avoid ever having to do a non-tech industry job? That would surprise me.

Some manual or skilled labour jobs would permit random breaks, I guess. But most people I know worked service industry. You don't get to just leave a cash register unattended because your bladder says to.

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Re:Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds by Falling3 on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @02:12PM (#24356017)
My original comment certainly didn't have much nuance in it, but I would certainly draw a distinction between a reasonable need to schedule bathroom breaks around job duties and the need to raise one's hand and ask someone's permission, which they can arbitrarily deny.
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Re:Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds by goostavos on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @02:02PM (#24355912)
I worked various crummy retail jobs for 4 years.

In my experience, the problem of needing to go to the bathroom while also needing to man a register was overcome by a quick "yo, could you cover me for a sec?" to a coworker.

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