I got written up for letting my coworkers hear me go to the bathroom?

[Anonymous]

Let explain. I work in a drugstore, and no I'm not a manager. Yesterday we had a big rainstorm and a bunch of people called in, including the store manager. I was in charge because I was the only one on the floor. The store was busier than we expected, and we had 2 cashiers up front, one in beauty, one in electronics, and one other girl with me helping with the truck. Every 5 seconds, one of the cashiers would call for me to help them, find something, price check something, etc, on top of me trying to do my own job. It was hectic. I went 5 hours straight without a bathroom break after my big ass cup of morning coffee, so I sent a message to everyone that I would be in the bathroom for no more than 3 minutes. I got immediately bombarded with people asking if I could just quickly do something BEFORE I went to the bathroom, got stopped once on the way past the beauty counter, was sent a personal "urgent" message trying to undo my pants. I quickly told them nicely to stop and reminded them I was going to the bathroom. I took off my headset but I could still hear them talking, so I turned on my microphone and peed. It lasted over 30 seconds from how bad I had to go. I knew it'd be loud.
Everything seemed to calm down after that. I wasn't bothered as much and when I needed to go help, nobody would look me in the eye.
I didn't think it was that big a deal and it obviously worked, but when I went in this morning I got a write up. Now I wonder if I went too far?

Updates

11 mo

I want to add, not sure if it matters but they didn't believe that I was actually going to use the bathroom, they thought I was just going to "sit on facebook" cause they're older and thought it was just looking for an excuse. So I mostly did it to prove to them and to shut them up

[Leapfrog00]

You did what you had to do. I have diabetes and I know what it's like to be in a situation where if you don't go, you start losing patients, and other people around you don't have a clue.

People are stupid. Scaringly stupid. If that was me, I'd be filing a complaint with someone for unsafe work conditions or something because that can be dangerous not going to the bathroom when you have to, and then writing you up because you were still doing your job, still listening in case you were needed, those employers should be kissing your ass for showing enthusiasm.

I had a friend that worked at a Sheetz that used to pull shit like this all the time, and write people up and fire them for the dumbest things, one which I might add, was this one pregnant girl who was sweeping the floor and there was this one machine she couldn't operate because she was pregnant, so they wrote her up for not finishing her job.

This company you work for though, they should be ashamed of themselves for sure!

[BCA6010]

You should've just gone to the bathroom as soon as you first said you were going, and ignored your coworkers for a couple minutes. Turning on/up your microphone was, charitably speaking, very immature. If you were working somewhere else or under different management, that could easily be turned into a firable offense.

[SaoirseS]

Someone has a weird imagination. I put this in the category of stuff that didn’t happen.

[OlderAndWiser]

You're probably right!

[OlderAndWiser]

You intentionally turned on your microphone so they would hear you pissing? Did you go too far? You went MILES too far! That is weird AF!

[Stazz76]

You turned on your microphone isn't clear. As in amplifying through speakers to everyone in the store, including customers?

[slatyb]

No, your manager is an idiot. IIWY I would look for another job.

[LiamJHayden]

Look up the laws where you live and see about the laws on timely breaks. It is entirely possible that the management violated your legal rights.

[gag37627]

Haha you are funny as hell. I don't know about the culture there, if they are cool, they would find it cool

[KrakenAttackin]

Sorry but you earned this wrote up. If you were a man you would have been fired.

[Emanon25]

Not a big deal