In Norway only 8 minutes allowed

[MEKer]

In Norway, if you work at this company, red lights flash to the manager if you are in the bathroom more than 8 minutes!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Right on! Whooo-eee! Could get interesting!!!


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1244418.html

[hover]

Being as pee-shy as I am, and with my last employer's bathroom being right off the conference room, and the current being right off the main lobby / foyer (well, the one that's not funked up nasty), I'm lucky if I make it to 4 minutes, I'm so self conscious...power dump and outta there. But yeah, there should be alarms for the people who milk it. I mean take too long.

[DeathFromBelow]

Yay my country!

Or not...

[colcifer]

Eight minutes a day is a bit stingy. Somethings just should not be rushed.

Also, the idea of this is creepy.

[cewillm]

I'm still mastering the art of the office poop. It's not easy. But Rule #1 is that you NEVER actively poop with coworkers in the bathroom, which means that you can take some time in the can.

Rule #2, by the way, is to quickly do your business and get the heck out of the bathroom if you sense an Office Pooper doing his or her thing. Taking a stall near an active Office Pooper is reserved for the highest of emergencies, such as foul Mexican for lunch.

[fhm555]

Once worked for a place that had a 5 minute timer instead of a light switch in the employee restroom.

You could take longer, but you did so in the dark.

[carlos840]

That's pretty mental to!

"One boss in Norway was reported for requiring female employees to wear red bracelets during their menstrual cycles, Norway's Chief Workplace Ombudsman Bjorn Erik Thon said last year, according to the Daily Mail."

[DigMe]

^ that's sick.

Also, I could not work at that place.

bc

[Sonic_Death]

That article title is severely misleading.

Apparently the system only tracks your time away from your desk, so it is 8 minutes away from your actual desk per day. Wherever you go isn't tracked as far as I can tell.

"Managers are alerted by flashing lights if an employee spends more than eight total minutes per day engaging in personal activities away from their desk."

Still pretty ridiculous. People who work there cannot consume Mexican food at all.

[Duke21]

This can not be true, such a rule of max 8min in the toilets will be illegal in Norway.

[Unrepresented]

After eight minutes, I'm just getting started. I like to do things once, and do things right.

[sneha1965]

It may be that they don't trust people to not spank the monkey to cell phone porn.

[Duke21]

We're I work people can be missing for 8 days before we really notice, but then I'm living north to the polar circle

[Stinsok]

What about after a night of Chili and Krystals?

[Duke21]

Originally Posted by Stinsok

What about after a night of Chili and Krystals?

It is minus 18 deg Celsius outside now, so a bit chili!

[jordy_on_bass]

This seem's a bit harsh, I suffer from irritable bowel syndrome and on a bad day, I can be unloading on the 'porcelain throne' for up to half an hour...surely you could site medical reasons if you take a few more minutes??

[fourstringdrums]

When I used to work at Verizon, if we weren't logged in when we were supposed to be working (breaks were entered into the system), the supervisors were alerted to this fact. It was down to the second, meaning if you were supposed to be plugged in at 12:00 and it was 12:01:01 you were considered to be having "red time". The same went for breaks. Supervisors were alerted if you were going into your break.

I have a weak bladder meaning I sometimes have to go frequently and when I do sometimes it's difficult to go. I also have digestive issues, so bathroom breaks weren't always quick. I was frequently reprimanded for how much time off a day I was taking, even though they knew my issues.

[runmikeyrun]

Remember the way ALL companies run their policies on stuff that's timed- they eventually want more work done in less time. So soon 8 minutes will become 7, then 6, then 5...

Hospitals have tracking devices on their nurses and techs to see which room they're in. These devices also track how long they are in any one certain area. This also includes bathrooms. Where does invasion of privacy start and how long are people going to put up with it?

[Steve]

Originally Posted by Sonic_Death

That article title is severely misleading.

Indeed it is.

Not to defend the practice but, those sort of time and motion efficiency studies and practices have been around, seems like forever,

"We have 150 employees. If each of you spends one minute a day extra at the water cooler....that's....eleventy million million hours of lost productivity a year at a cost of a bazillion dollars to the company. That's enough money to give each employee a 30k dollar a year raise"....blah, blah, blah.

I wonder how long it's going to take people to get the message that "The collective" whatever it may be, does not give a dookie about the individual.

[Bloodhammer]

Powerdump. If your eyes aren't bulging out of their sockets, you're doing it wrong.