How to handle this situation - unfair treatment

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After returning to college, I also found an additional part-time job, as a parking attendant for a local sports team on game days. The job is only temporary, and pays minimum wage, but since I'm studying Public Relations in school now, and want to find a job quickly, near the end of the team's season, I plan on asking the supervisors if they know who to contact for a position in public relations within the organization.

The problem is, as a parking attendant, I am required to stay at the parking lot for the whole time, and can only leave when being driven somewhere. In two of the three games I've had to work, the lot I've worked is far from the stadium, but we still have to be there very early (as in 6 hours before the game) to accommodate the vast minority of the fans who use that lot and show up very early. During the game, most lots are allotted breaks, but this one isn't because its so far from the stadium and we even have to wait like 30 minutes to go to the bathroom after we've said we need to go due to the people who drive us around need to do other work, so we basically have to stay in the lot for the whole game and an hour afterwards to without breaks adding up to 10 hours total (6 for before the game, 3 hours of the game, 1 hour after the game). I know I'm not being singled out for this lot because the other people who work it have also remained consistent (first game it was the other two people I've worked with there, next game it was me and one of them, the most recent it was me and the other) and that they treat most other employees better, as others have said so and I remember being treated wonderfully during training.

How do I respectfully tell the supervisors how unfair their treatment is without sounding too cry-babyish so I can get treated better and still have a good chance of possibly getting in contact with the PR department for some work experience after I'm done with being a parking attendant?

Do what it takes to get the job first. Then, mention your experiences regarding the restroom problem from within the workplace.

Or, send an anonymous e-mail (https://www.hushmail.com/) about your experiences regarding the restroom problem to the team's president or CEO and specifically mention the U.S. Department of Labor OSHA regulation https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadis ... &p_id=9790 and interpretation https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadis ... p_id=22932 which "requires employers to make toilet facilities available so that employees can use them when they need to do so." In your case, it appears that the regulation provides also that "[t]he requirements of paragraph (c)(1)(i) of this section do not apply to mobile crews or to normally unattended work locations so long as employees working at these locations have transportation immediately available to nearby toilet facilities which meet the other requirements of this subparagraph." Encourage them to comply with the regulation.

Or, do both. Or, neither.