Bag It?

It never ceases to amaze the depth of stupidity that Telco management can subscribe. This time it is urine bags. Yes you heard that right. Urine bags.

DENVER — A supervisor with telecommunications giant Qwest apparently decided to confront the issue of lengthy bathroom breaks by workmen, but it didn’t sit well with union officials.

Union officials in Colorado said a Qwest supervisor tried to cut down on lengthy bathroom breaks by telling workmen to use disposable urinal bags in the field.

The manager distributed disposable urinal bags to 25 male field technicians, telling them not to waste time leaving a job site to search for a public bathroom.

A company spokeswoman told the Rocky Mountain News there’s no policy that requires field technicians to use urinal bags while they’re out on a job.

The Communications Workers of America local hasn’t filed a grievance.

One local administrative director said that while the union deals with a “a lot of silliness in corporate America,” this one takes the cake.

Management has really not thought this one through. I have several ideas for using a full urine bag and I am not even a CWA member. I thing the Union guys could think of a whole bunch more. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

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