# I have to pee so very very badly... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 19, 2001, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-pee-so-very-very-badly/62570 "2001-04-19T18:25:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2001, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-pee-so-very-very-badly/62570/1 "2001-04-19T18:25:20Z")
…but I can’t take my break yet. I’m chained to my phone in a cube farm. My butt is sweating from sitting in this chair. Helpdesk is glamorous work. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-pee-so-very-very-badly/62570/2 "2001-04-20T00:37:27Z")
So…didja go yet? ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-pee-so-very-very-badly/62570/3 "2001-04-20T01:06:09Z")
Hello from a fellow cube farm worker! You’re an adult. You should be able to get up and go to the loo whenever you need to. I certainly do. They certainly can’t stop you… ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-pee-so-very-very-badly/62570/4 "2001-04-20T03:46:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Persephone \* > \*\*So…didja go yet? \*\* Oh I WENT alright!! > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Juliana \* > \*\*Hello from a fellow cube farm worker! > > You’re an adult. You should be able to get up and go to the loo whenever you need to. I certainly do. They certainly can’t stop you…\*\* WHAT!!! WHAT are you TALKING about woman!!! Its the NUMBERS… THE NUMBERS! The numbers have to be right!! If I take to much break time… or if my CALLS last to long and DEAR GOD dont go longer then 13 minutes (whether the problem is fixed or not)!!, or THE AFTER CALL TIME THE AFTER CALL TIME! Don’t BREATH! Take another call, and do WHATEVER it takes to get them off the phone as fast as possible because DEAR JESUS the company you work for gets paid BY THE CALL not by the quality or the customer satisfaction!! THE NUMBERS MAN! If I would Pee it would fuck up the NUMBERS!!! Damn… I wish this was in the pit. ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-pee-so-very-very-badly/62570/5 "2001-04-20T03:48:25Z")
Oh sorry… I really dont feel as psycotic as I appear. …really… I’m muuuuuch better now. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-pee-so-very-very-badly/62570/6 "2001-04-20T05:39:26Z")
Just do what I do when I need to pee/smoke/flirt/wander aimlessly… Log off the phone and reboot the pc. If questioned claim an application froze. Good thing I’m friends with the tech guys 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ghandi5569](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@ghandi5569](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ghandi5569)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-pee-so-very-very-badly/62570/7 "2001-04-20T05:42:49Z")
pee on the phone…you’ll get to pee when you have to (regardless of what Dude-With-Numbers says). Literally on the phone, mind you. (ignore that…that was ghandi’s evil side coming through) ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-pee-so-very-very-badly/62570/8 "2001-04-20T13:00:36Z")
Your catherization is scheduled for Saturday at 3. You can stay at your desk now. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-pee-so-very-very-badly/62570/9 "2001-04-20T15:36:34Z")
Be careful with this, as much as we revere scientific innovators around here, you wouldn’t want to have happen to you what happened to [Tycho Brae](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=67717). It’d be a hell of a MPSIMS story though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-to-pee-so-very-very-badly/62570/10 "2001-04-20T15:56:16Z")
Dude, man! When I gotta pee, I go pee! I don’t give a damn if the helpdesk phone is ringing completely off the desk! See, right now, I have a UTI (I know, TMI) and I gotta go when I gotta go. And holding too long can contribute to UTI’s, too! (Or so they tell me…) Anyway, how much good can you be to the customer of you’re too distracted by your bladder to focus? I know, “the numbers, the numbers…” Well, I get paid by the hour to work Helpdesk calls. Wanna come work with me?