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Another company, WaterSaver Faucet, began tracking employees a few years back, punishing those who spent too much time in the office loo, while offering those who didn’t use the company-provided commode at all a gift card for up to $20 after a month.

Those seeking information on the program can sign up on the commission's WaterSaver listserv.

Rudy Dixon, a 33-year veteran of WaterSaver, says, “Right now, you’ve got to write in and write out to go the bathroom. Then when you go to the bathroom, you’ve got to punch in and you’ve got to punch out. That’s not right. You can only use the bathroom twice a day.”

You’d expect a company called the WaterSaver Faucet Co. to care about what happens in the bathroom.

In of the most absurd, enraging disputes in recent labor news, unionized employees of Chicago’s WaterSaver Faucet Co. protested earlier this month for a new contract — and for an end to the company’s reputed new draconian policy on bathroom breaks.