Posted on 03/21/2008 1:25:57 AM PDT by kingattax
DENVER (AP) - Union officials in Colorado say a Qwest supervisor tried to cut down on lengthy bathroom breaks by telling workmen to use disposable urinal bags in the field.
The manager distributed the bags to 25 male field technicians, telling them not to waste time leaving a job site to search for a public bathroom, the Rocky Mountain News reported Thursday.
"We deal with a lot of silliness in corporate America, but you've got to admit, it takes the freakin' cake," Reed Roberts, an administrative director at the Communications Workers of America District 7, told the newspaper.
Roberts did not return a message left by The Associated Press.
Qwest spokeswoman Jennifer Barton said, "There's no policy whatsoever" requiring field technicians to use the bags.
"They are there for convenience, and they are there because employees asked for them," she said.
The union has not filed a grievance, Barton said, and she could not discuss the details of the allegations from the communications company's field worker in the sparsely populated area near Montrose.
Roberts said he had complained to Qwest's corporate labor relations department. He said the company has made an issue of the amount of time wasted by workers returning to the garage or central office for bathroom breaks.
But he said it appears this manager "took it upon himself to cut down on the time technicians spend to go to the bathroom."
Neither Roberts nor Barton gave the name of the supervisor involved.
Qwest and other companies have for years offered portable urinal bags to workers who could find themselves in the field far from a bathroom.
The bag's manufacturer, American Innotek, said it provides the bags to various industrial companies, including electric utilities, municipal public works and telephone companies.
Ryan Hiott, a regional director for Innotek, said the Federal Emergency Management Agency ordered 2.5 million bags after Hurricane Katrina.
Does a Union whiner pi$$ in the woods? Apparently not.
Funny, they complain about something they’re told to do while being paid that they do into 20oz Mountain Dew bottles on their own time.
And it’s not as though they’re being told to catheterize themselves.
Tree?
"Wear a diaper, Mary"
wow, union employees complaining about something.. In other news, the sun is coming up today.
I wish I got paid time and a half to piss in a bag because I’d never leave my desk.
A bag? They’re apparently in the woods! Is it illegal to take a piss in the woods in Colorado?
wow.. a #3 in bag.. How appetizing.
Every worksite I have ever been on had porta john requirements once you have more than a handful of people.
Now if they could do something about those smoke breaks....
Some homeless folks were literally squatting on an abandoned property in Minneapolis where the plumbing was shut off, so they were doing their business in plastic bags and tossing them out the upstairs window where about 20 of these bags were caught in the tree outside. I should've taken a picture.
I'm impressed. Lot of times they just do it on the floor and live in it.
Suppose the guy uses the bag in the back of his truck, someone looks in the window and sees him, then calls the cops.
The guy will be charged with a sex crime for urinating in public and is put on the sex offender registry for the rest of his life.
I'll stick with hydraulic brakes, thanks. :-)
People used to ask about the coffee can w/a brazed on handle hanging in the back of the PG&E trucks. circa 1975
Dont push me, cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to loose my head
Its like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
A road crew in Washington state collected these jugs of urine. In one year, a single, small county in the state collected 2,666 jugs.
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