A former SpaceX employee who suffers from Crohn’s disease claims supervisors monitored his restroom use, timing each toilet break and issuing a formal reprimand if he wasn’t back within 10 minutes.
That’s according to a federal discrimination lawsuit obtained by The Independent, which says Douglas Altshuler’s gastrointestinal condition makes it impossible for him to last more than 35 to 45 minutes without a trip to the lavatory – meaning as many as 14 times over the course of an eight-hour shift.
