For the employees of a meat packing plant in England, it is the worst of times, but certainly not the best of times.
A local labor union is saying that Brown Brothers is forcing employees to clock out when they make trips to the bathroom, a practice the union calls “Dickensian.” This is seen as an affront to the common worker, who proudly gets paid for his or her 20 minutes on the can a little after lunch. How else can one catch up on the news?
Perhaps even more Dickensian of Brown Brothers is that it automatically fires anyone who asks for more gruel.