in Massachusetts, workers have the right to a 30 break after 6 hours of work.
i work overnights, alone, in a very busy store.
since we are now the only store that's open all night long for miles and miles, we've become even busier.
and now we even recently started offering doordash/uber eats etc, which makes us even busier. all night the stupid mobile order alarm is going off. i sometimes get 15+ per night. (i gotta go through the store and gather everything from the order, scan them all an bag them up so they're ready for the driver to take and go.)
its honestly a lot of busy time with very little down time, between that and all my regular tasks i don't even have time to go to the bathroom usually, unless it's a really quick piss.
even then, when i lock the front door and put a sign up that says “be back soon, bathroom” people are banging on the door, yelling and swearing that i made them wait.
it's even worse if I need to take a shit! since our bathroom gets nasty quick, cuz people are disrespectful, i will clean the toilet before i sit.
i got stomach issues, so it's pretty common for me to need 5+ min in the bathroom. people DO NOT LIKE THIS.
I've received threats and just nasty anger from enough people that i don't shit at work anymore. it's just not worth it, being here alone at night.
if i bring up the fact that i want a break with my boss, the “solution” I'll be given will be “lock the door for 30 min and put a sign up”.
that's not gonna work. that shit will never fly. ever since covid, people have gotten 10x more crazy.
anyways I'm just venting here i guess cuz i don't have a real solution. ty for reading.