“I got my packages, I got my van, I’m about to start my route,” said the driver on Friday in a TikTok video with 587,000 views, posting anonymously as @iagtjuice3. “But I stop at the gas station, you know, get a little snack for the road, get a little beverage.”
He went on, “My stomach was hurting, I really had to use the bathroom—I used the gas station bathroom.”
When he exited the restroom, the driver said his supervisor was standing outside, “posted up.”
“What’s going on? What’s up? How you doin’?” he reportedly said to his supervisor.
“Go home,” his manager allegedly said.
According to the employee, his manager asked, “Why are you wasting time there? You’re on the clock.”
The driver allegedly answered that he needed to defecate. His supervisor asked why he hadn’t defecated at the warehouse, to which the driver replied, “I didn’t have to sh*t then.”
“Moral of the story, I got sent home for taking a sh*t, so Jeff [Bezos], please contact me,” said the employee.
In 2018, undercover investigator James Bloodworth reported that fears of time-wasting forced warehouse employees to use a “toilet bottle” system in Staffordshire, England.
“We know that drivers can and do have trouble finding restrooms because of traffic or sometimes rural routes, and this has been especially the case during Covid when many public restrooms have been closed,” the company said in 2021.
“I love how jobs are like ‘you have designated break times’…ok tell my stomach that [because] it has a mind of its own,” one user commented.
“Why do jobs act like us grown adults can’t use the bathroom when we need to? Y’all [going to] diaper me up or can I go potty?” said another viewer.
