My husband is a tradesman, so will spent 9/12 hours a day, sometimes more out of the house. He is NOT ALLOWED to leave the customers house without permission, his van, laptop, etc are all tracked and leaving a house or discrepancies in where he is, is a sackable offence.
He also has IBS, which 90% of the time is managed but the he will randomly get attacks.
He is not paid for his 30 minutes lunch but he also is officially allowed to move his van, so is supposed to take it where he finishes the job for 30 minutes, any time above this is sackable, 80% of the week he doesn't even get lunch because they office keep sending him work and he doesn't want to inconvenience the customer, plus if he says he can't go to the next job before the time suggests he can get in trouble again.
He hardly ever asks to use a customers loo, but clearly the rest of you have bowels and bladders of steel because I know I can't told it in for 9 hours, let alone more.
It is clearly an issue for customers, he often gets told no, usually from the same customers who won't allow him to use the front door, he's even been told to use the outside toilet before, you know the ones with haven't Been used since before the war and have no water.
He does everything in his power to try and avoid customers loos but that isn't always possible.
It probably sounds like he complains about it, but he doesn't, it's me that find others people's behaviour shocking.