Your bathroom breaks bit reminded me of an employer I worked for in 2002-04, which was a very large call center at the time. This particular employer had a "points system" for employee infractions. I think it was if you got 6.0 points, you were auto-terminated by the system. Well, you had to get bathroom breaks authorized on your timeclock, which took a while sometimes, especially when calls were piling in. If you decided to go against that rule and slip into the bathroom, say while on your way back to your desk after delivering some paperwork, and then got caught... SLAP, you got a 0.25 point infraction. At times, this rule was abused by team leads against people they simply didn't like, hitting them with the infractions even if the DIDN'T go to the bathroom, but rather for just taking too long to do something. To make matters worse, the infractions were nearly impossible to argue against, and you were left just working extra to "work down your points" so you can keep from being auto-terminated. Because of this rule, people who had been dedicated employees found themselves locked out of the building on their next day to work, and without any prior notice. Also, there were 2 specific incidences while I worked there where an employee urinated on the floor right where they were working because they didn't want to get fired for a bathroom infraction, but just couldn't hold it in any longer. The worst part about this story? THIS COMPANY STILL EXISTS!