Disclosure: I'm in the UK where the worker protections are half-decent.
was it ever not OK?
It was not OK to not take a jobby on work time when you had the opportunity!
I've worked shifts where my relief staffer has been in twenty minutes early (long commute, unpredictable traffic) so I've handed the shift over, and ensured that the remainder of my time was spent losing half a kilo of weight in five minutes. Conversely, it feels far more productive to leave the house half-needing to give birth to a brown otter, and nip to the bog once your feet are clear of your workload that you've taken on from the previous shift to go and perform the bowel movement while being paid for it.
Shitting in my own khazi on my days off feels like voluntary work now.
Sensibly though, any manager who controls bog time is just a bit of a fanny. Unless someone is obviously taking the piss like spending four hours of a ten hour shift, then people will perform better once they've laid a cable whenever they've needed to.
American here. I'm choosing to believe that this is just a normal, everyday amount of poop-related slang for the UK, and that you're not playing it up for comedic effect.
Why would you want to take a shit in a shitty bathroom stall with 1 micron thick toilet paper and an automated sink that barely cleans. I wait until I'm home to take a shit.
If the ultimate goal is to protect your health, holding it in us clearly worse than smelling a little bit of shit. You're position is, quite literally, irrational.
No, I hate that I can work from home and be comfortable but because C-Suite invested in the local lunch spot I have to sit in an office and have teams meetings with people in the cube next to me. You wanna shit with friends, go ahead. I like my bidet and soft TP.