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They're referencing the site guidelines, so this statement is demonstrably false.
Please define substance-free so we can have an objective discussion on it.
Just accept that your comment did not live up to the guidelines set by this site, and try to learn from that.
A lot of workers have nowhere to pee, for example bus drivers. Often they avoid drinking water for this reason, allowing themselves to be chronically dehydrated.
One day, I was digging around in the back of the truck looking for some acetone and grabbed out a bottle of some yellowish brown liquid. Suddenly, head installer starts freaking out a bit going on 'no no don't touch that.' After a moment or two it dawned on all of us what it was...
So after hastily tossing the bottle aside and a round of 'what the fucks!!?' from everybody, our coworker explained how he was worried about using the bushes in case some came up and filmed it and put it on youtube.
Yeah...peeing locations can definitely be an issue at work in general.
Worked in gas station, tons of people stop just to use restrooms.
Worked in gas station, tons of people stop just to use restrooms.
We also had homeless people use restrooms to bathe, and drug addicts use the bathroom as a place to quickly take a hit. Also had people defecate on the floor, write messages on the wall with feces, etc. Because of this, multiple places I worked didn't provide restroom access to the public. It sucks for people who simply and respectfully use the restroom. But at the same time (in one specific location at least), it was a matter of having to clean up fecal matter or drug paraphernalia or not letting the public use the restroom. My sub-living-wage job simply didn't pay me enough to put up with that crap.
That being said, if you let 'customers' use your restroom, you should let gig workers do the same. They aren't your direct customer, but show them a modicum of respect and dignity.
There needs to be infrastructure for true public restrooms in urban areas.
Uber et al needs to make mandatory access to its drivers a condition of doing business with the food service.
A lot of workers have nowhere to pee, for example bus drivers. Often they avoid drinking water for this reason, allowing themselves to be chronically dehydrated.
A few years ago I was doing granite work. On installs, if the customer's plumbing wasn't hooked up, we'd have to find a bush somewhere...or so I thought. One day, I was digging around in the back of the truck looking for some acetone and grabbed out a bottle of some yellowish brown liquid. Suddenly, head installer starts freaking out a bit going on 'no no don't touch that.' After a moment or two it dawned on all of u…
i mean, it's just a joke, nobody really has these in an air-conditioned office, and these desk workers are generally still pretty well taken care of, all things considered. by the time one is 5 years in, one should be able to go 12 hours without ever leaving their chair, it's just part of the on-the-job training.
To make things worse, gyms are shutdown. They were a reliable 24/7 location if the driver had membership. There needs to be infrastructure for true public restrooms in urban areas. Uber et al needs to make mandatory access to its drivers a condition of doing business with the food service.
Otherwise Starbucks has become the national public restroom, which their president commented on in print a while back:
Starbucks: No Purchase Needed To Use The Restroom
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/11/610337214...
The most egregious example that doesn't have a restroom is the downtown Market St. McD. Tourists literally ask for one every 10 minutes there, get told no, then it quickly dawns on them they have a serious problem to deal with.
Worked in gas station, tons of people stop just to use restrooms.
Worked at grocery stores and gas stations. A lot of people stopped just to use the restroom. We also had homeless people use restrooms to bathe, and drug addicts use the bathroom as a place to quickly take a hit. Also had people defecate on the floor, write messages on the wall with feces, etc. Because of this, multiple places I worked didn't provide restroom access to the public. It sucks for people who simply and r…