A restaurant manager has sparked a heated social media debate after asking women staff to hold back their periods so as to keep the restaurant running.
Posted on Twitter by @ask_aubry, the Reddit post read: “AITA? I am a restaurant manager and I have an employee who has been going to the bathroom regularly this week, she tells me that she has her period, so I decided to call all of F employees and asked them to put a tampon before their shift or to holding back their period (if it’s possible).
“They told me the AH now. I just want the restaurant to keep running, but I like my team (we are low staff so they’re precious!) AITA?”
OMG why did I think about that? Just hold in my period when I'm working. 🙄 pic.twitter.com/3w7vWVZqzJ
— AskAubry 🦝 (@ask_aubry) April 18, 2023
The post sparked debate, with many users commenting that the manager is very wrong, and clearly understands nothing about the subject.
One user wrote: “I can’t imagine why this restaurant is low-staffed. Mmm … no, nothing comes to mind. Who wouldn’t want to work there, with such an amazing and educated manager? Impossible to imagine that people are not begging at the door for a chance to have him as a boss”.
A second user wrote: “Lmao you actually asked your female workers to put a tampon in prior to shift. Lmao you think one tampon works all set no need to deal with it again for 8 hours. Lmao that he thinks all can and do wear tampons. Lmao.”
A third commented: “To be fair, he said “if it’s possible” so he clearly has no idea what he’s asking, and some part of him is aware of that. Someone just needs to sit down and have a talk and tell him that’s not really how it works. At least this time it’s not coming from a lawmaker.”
Other users shared their own experiences with their managers.
“I had a manager ask me as I was headed to the bathroom in front of a guest where I thought I was going because we were busy. I said in my loud speaking voice “to change my tampon” the looks my manager got from the guest were priceless”, wrote one user.
A second said: “My former (male) manager used to time us in the bathroom once and asked a co-worker why she’d taken 7 minutes in there. She responded by explaining in great detail that she’d gotten a tampon stuck and it took a while to get it out. We did not hear another word about bathroom visits.”
A third wrote: “I had a boss ask to see my tampons because he didn’t believe it was possible for me to be on my period longer than a week. I quit right then.”
