Are you stuck at work with no access to water or restrooms in your entire town? Do you need to drive to the next town over just to use a bathroom? How can you handle this situation? Join the conversation and find out more!
Water Out in Town, Work Restrictions
Are you facing the challenge of no water in your town while being stuck at work?
No Restrooms or Water Available
No Restrooms or Water Available
What to do when there are no restrooms or water for the next 4+ hours.
– No water or restroom access in town
– Work won’t allow employees to leave
– Drive to next town for fast food bathrooms
– Return after using restrooms
Report the violation to Department of Labor.
Report to the fire department.
Health department would like to know too. Without water you can’t practice proper hygiene protocols.
I’d just go home and use my bathroom. Wouldn’t be tempted to go back until the water was back on.
Fill the toilets and don’t flush.
All of them.
Just go there and stay. You had the runs. Get paid to poop.
Pretty sure that’s an OSHA violation…
OSHA would love to hear about this.
Since it’s the next town over I’d just say I had to go to the bathroom repeatedly and drive around goofing off all day.
You aren’t enslaved. Leave.Â
Call the department of labor and the health department. Also, don’t clock out if you have to drive to the next town over to use the bathroom.
OP, in most civilized countries, there are legal limits to how long employers can mandate their employees remain on site in case of a major utility failure. Where I live, it’s 2 hours. Most likely, what your employer is doing is illegal, and not to mention, incredibly unsafe.
Sorry it took me so long to get back, boss. When I got to the next town, their water was out too. And the town after that and the town after that.
Get Taco Bell and start committing war crimes in the work bathroom. It’s called Natural Consequences.
What a horrible time for you to have diarrhea OP. I’m so sorry…
Call OSHA
Are you working at a hospital, emergency dispatch, 911, fire etc? Â If not you should be closed and sent home.Â
nope, that’s quite literally illegal, you need to call osha NOW.
That’s a health code issue
I belive that’s illegal, call the DOL, they’ll be really interested in that.
Illegal. Everyone should punch out and leave immediately
In Ohio, it’s illegal to detain anyone in a building that doesn’t have water.
One time when I was in high school, our school tried to keep going through the day when our water was out. A classmate called the health department and told them our school didn’t have water, and they were still holding classes.
We were out within the hour!!!!
This is where malicious compliance comes in. Go ahead, go take your bathroom break clear across town. Make sure they time you so you add that spade full of dirt to the managers management career
They want you to drive your own vehicle? Have a fender bender along the way, explain where you were going to your insurance company, then sue tf out of your employer when your insurance refuses to pay because you were conducting business in a non-commercial vehicle.
Take ALL your bathroom breaks. maybe have everyone carpool, to save gas. Of course, that means you have to wait for everyone to finish… But they told you to.