'Toilet training not essential for this job'

Reuters ^ | August 2, 2003

[sarcasm]

Buenos Aires, Argentina - Supermarket cashiers in Argentina are being forced to wear nappies to keep them from taking toilet breaks at work, a union says.

Female cashiers in western Mendoza province must wear adult diapers in case "cold, nerves, pressure or stress" provoke incontinence, union official Jorge Cordova told local news agency Diarios y Noticias on Thursday.

Cordova refused to name the supermarket but he did say the chain is backed by foreign capital, said Sandra Varela, Mendoza's labour sub-secretary.

"The truth is, it's difficult to imagine a line of 20 adult cashiers wearing diapers for eight hours," said Varela, who is investigating the matter.

"In seventeen years as a labour lawyer, I've never heard anything like this before," she added.

[MotleyGirl70]

What a crappy job.

[TheBattman]

So Wal Mart has stores in Argentina now?

[MotleyGirl70]

Reminds me of an older SNL skit...

"Oooops I crapped my pants." (adult diapers)

[MotleyGirl70]

LOL!

[MotleyGirl70]

This story stinks!

[gitmo]

And these people are handling customers' food?

[MotleyGirl70]

"The truth is, it's difficult to imagine a line of 20 adult cashiers wearing diapers for eight hours," said Varela, who is investigating the matter.

Ewwww, how does he plan to investigate?

[July 4th]

Cashier comments to customer, "Oh, Huggies! This is my favorite brand."

[Senator Pardek]

...union official Jorge Cordova...

Er - perhaps this guy should get into a different kind of work - he can't even get a concession from the employer concerning the wearing of diapers?!

[Momaw Nadon]

Not a bad idea where I work.

Some of the "adults" who work there need remedial lessons on how to use a bathroom properly.

Lessons included should be how to flush a toilet, how to wash one's hands, how to lift a toilet seat, and how to wipe one's ass.

I'm not kidding.

[PaulJ]

Get a job here and urine trouble!

[snopercod]

I'm surprised they don't stick brooms up their a$$es so they can sweep the floors while they check out customers.

[JennysCool]

"Clean-up on Aisle Three" must be a real picnic in this place.

[dead]

Er - perhaps this guy should get into a different kind of work - he can't even get a concession from the employer concerning the wearing of diapers?!

LOL!

He can always move to America and become the Republican Senate Majority leader.

[MotleyGirl70]

Good thing me and my sister don't work there we would be fired so fast for making wise cracks (ooops no pun intended)!

[DeaconBenjamin]

A reference to Tauzin's quip?

[dead]

No. I don't know what Tauzin's quip was.

It was just a reference to the history of the current and prior men who have held the job.

[DeaconBenjamin]

During the 1996 elections, Clinton went on MTV and was asked boxers or briefs. Tauzin joked that if Dole had been asked the same question, his answer would have been "Depends...."

[The_Media_never_lie]

Lessons included should be how to flush a toilet,

My employer solved this problem and installed an electronic flushing toilet. Now when I go somewhere that isn't equipped with an eft, I sometimes forget to flush. It's not my upbringing but my employers fault.