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Peeing in a bottle wasn't the thing that was reported. Emptying a bottle of urine in front of the customer's home was the problem.

The driver should have emptied the bottle into a toilet on his next break (or after his shift). Or, failing that, dump it in the woods out of the way.



Perhaps he had to urinate again, and did not have an additional bottle? What then should he have done?

If you'll notice, we're now heading down the path of playing out ever-more-elaborate strategies for individual delivery drivers to maintain homeostasis without offending the delicate sensibilities of the people they serve, instead of questioning why this is a problem in the first place.


The solution to this problem is not "dump a bottle of piss out on someone's lawn," it's "expand labor laws to cover this very obvious human rights issue and then hammer Amazon with it until they shape up."

Workers need bathrooms, and employers have to pay for them.


We agree on the best outcome. What should workers do in the meantime?


"And in the mean time, report all violators to Amazon" is the implicitly unsaid thing that people here are disagreeing with, not the obvious statement that labor laws should be expanded and enforced.


Let's not escalate this into imaginary situations. He didn't dump piss on anyone's lawn.


I don't know if it's employers that have to pay for them. Society needs available bathrooms; they don't need to be gated behind employment or being a customer


I used to do apartment maintenance and I considered asking someone to use their bathroom completely unprofessional. I peed in bottles and never thought it a big deal.

A simple question, do you always offer water and a restroom to blue collar workers who enter your home? If so, you are in the 1%.


Oh, I agree. Everybody deserves regular breaks during the workday. People have to eat, drink, pee, etc. Lack of such breaks doesn't, IMO, excuse peeing in my yard.


It wasn't in anybody's yard, it was in the road. And they didn't pee there, they emptied a bottle.


So it's the yard now? Even if it was the yard, while that is definitely a dick move, getting a delivery worker fired over it is more of a dick move.


Well, this is where we are. Delivery drivers are being crunched to make deliveries. Having someone pee in your yard just comes with the territory. Don't try to get them fired if they do that. I assure you many dogs pee in your yard any given day.


Drunk tech workers pee on the street in front of my house near Dolores park all day long, should I be calling the cops on them?

I could probably snap a few photos and call the employer based on their backpacks too.


>The driver should have emptied the bottle into a toilet on his next break

I mean, if that were even a remote possibility he wouldn't have filled a bottle, would he now?




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