It is only your time when they want to avoid paying you for it.
Hot-Room-8467 on
When employee start talking like their managers lol
DeadAndBuried23 on
Do you *want* to come back half an hour later to clock out?
inorite234 on
The answer is yes. Or you can take a 2 hr lunch.
Morethanstandard on
This has always been a favorite of mine but this usually a talk between your supervisor & not the owner/boss
Neofertal on
Why not go further, can I work from monday midnight to tuesday 4pm?
TheRagingFire08 on
The problem is that they are required to give you a lunch break if you work over a certain number of hours in a day. If you just leave early for however long your lunch is they don’t actually log that you were given a lunch break. Too many instances and now they’re violating labor laws. That’s really what it boils down to.
ChocolateDream24 on
It depends on if customers are expecting you to be available at certain hours, or if you work independently.
You can’t just walk off the job early if people need and expect you to do your job at certain hours.
if you were to take your lunch at the end of the day, the resulting midday crash would cost the company a LOT more than thirty minutes of pay.
Festivefire on
Unfortunately for you, this isn’t even the company’s fault. Most countries have labor laws that require businesses to give workers a lunch break if their shift exceeds a certain length, and moving it to the end of the day so you can leave early would still violate those laws.
Stuck_in_my_TV on
I don’t know about every state, but Illinois requires the break to be taken before the 5th hour of work by law.
misterdudebro on
We are skipping meals due to food costs anyway.
SuperPotatoThrow on
This is just kind of one of those situations where no one really wins but it is a necessary law that has to be in place. If it wasn’t, your employer can make you work for as long as they want you to without letting you take a break up to however many hours your state might limit you to work in a day.
If you take your “luch” at the end of the day and leave early instead then its not documented, board of labor gets involved and everyone is fucked.
edgarunwise on
Depends on the law in the country. I think in the U.S. or at least my state you have 5 hours of work before a required lunch, and you can get in trouble for not taking it depending on whether or not they’re exploiting you by your unawareness, or they care about labor laws. If you work a 10 hour shift tho, you’d only get one tho or the other WOULD be after your shift so 🤷
Brilliant-Orchid-693 on
The illusion of choice
Supremagorious on
Were that legally allowable companies would just make that mandatory and schedule assuming they don’t need to consider coverage for break times which would just be saying no lunch break with extra steps.
AT1313 on
For legal reasons a company wouldn’t do that. They are required by law to give you a lunch break and unless they insist on implementing a way to track staff (which isn’t going to happen), they can’t prove you didn’t go on break. In my country, Muslim staff are allowed to leave one hour earlier during Ramadhan because they’re fasting, as it’s clear they aren’t taking any lunch break. Other than that, you can leave an hour earlier if you start an hour earlier.
The_Keri2 on
The simple answer for Germany: No, that violates labor law. You have a legal right to a break that cannot be waived in a contract. As your employer, I am obligated to send you on a break at that time.
Belocity on
I mean sure, but my coworker once said that because I have a 30 minute unpaid break I should be leaving at 17:15 not 17:00 on the dot (I arrive at like 8:45). So I just said lol that’d mean I can leave earlier if I only lunch for 5 minutes then right?
baylithe on
I get a paid 30 and unpaid 30. We have to clock out for the unpaid one but my jobs before this did not give breaks due to it being too busy so its a really nice change of pace.
Deadhead_Otaku on
When I worked retail at at a well known mega store chain, I got screeched at by a department manager who wasn’t even my manager because the assistant manager who was like her best friend would routinely force me to work nearly my entire shift without breaks, but I’d still take my breaks right at the end. I was guaranteed 2× 15 minute breaks and a 1 hour lunch, so I’d take the breaks 2 hours before closing and spend the last half hour half-assedly cleaning the department.
Dumbest part is, now the assistant manager that was so god awful, is bow a store manager at a different local branch of the same company.
I also got the night time store manager in trouble with the district manager because he’d poach our entire team to deal with other departments, so ours looked like shit. Surprised I wasn’t fired on the spot for clapping back at him for his shit talking in fron of the DM.
unluckyknight13 on
Okay I used to be so pissed about this
I worked in a grocery deli
I specifically was closer.
I came in when morning crew last hour is going on, and night crew shuffling in.
Morning crew every fucking time would wait to take their breaks and lunch in this final hour so I come in and it goes from 3 morning folks 1 night folk to like me and 1 morning folk who had an extra hour.
And the other two DO NOT RETURN they clock out and by the time the next nigh crew comes in the morning crew all left.
So like a full hour I’m manning the entire deli alone when we usually need 3 people
I wasn’t even an assistant manager
poison11037 on
Funny enough, I’m actually allowed to do that at my work, but the amount of work it takes to actually get it approved is not worth it.
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It is only your time when they want to avoid paying you for it.
When employee start talking like their managers lol
Do you *want* to come back half an hour later to clock out?
The answer is yes. Or you can take a 2 hr lunch.
This has always been a favorite of mine but this usually a talk between your supervisor & not the owner/boss
Why not go further, can I work from monday midnight to tuesday 4pm?
The problem is that they are required to give you a lunch break if you work over a certain number of hours in a day. If you just leave early for however long your lunch is they don’t actually log that you were given a lunch break. Too many instances and now they’re violating labor laws. That’s really what it boils down to.
It depends on if customers are expecting you to be available at certain hours, or if you work independently.
You can’t just walk off the job early if people need and expect you to do your job at certain hours.
a split in the middle of the day is better for productivity. it’s proven that taking frequent, small breaks can help keep the mind stimulated and engaged in whatever task being done.[(Cornell)](https://health.cornell.edu/about/news/study-breaks-stress-busters#:~:text=Research%20shows%20that%20taking%20purposeful,productivity%2C%20and%20ability%20to%20focus.) this is particularly true with reading.
if you were to take your lunch at the end of the day, the resulting midday crash would cost the company a LOT more than thirty minutes of pay.
Unfortunately for you, this isn’t even the company’s fault. Most countries have labor laws that require businesses to give workers a lunch break if their shift exceeds a certain length, and moving it to the end of the day so you can leave early would still violate those laws.
I don’t know about every state, but Illinois requires the break to be taken before the 5th hour of work by law.
We are skipping meals due to food costs anyway.
This is just kind of one of those situations where no one really wins but it is a necessary law that has to be in place. If it wasn’t, your employer can make you work for as long as they want you to without letting you take a break up to however many hours your state might limit you to work in a day.
If you take your “luch” at the end of the day and leave early instead then its not documented, board of labor gets involved and everyone is fucked.
Depends on the law in the country. I think in the U.S. or at least my state you have 5 hours of work before a required lunch, and you can get in trouble for not taking it depending on whether or not they’re exploiting you by your unawareness, or they care about labor laws. If you work a 10 hour shift tho, you’d only get one tho or the other WOULD be after your shift so 🤷
The illusion of choice
Were that legally allowable companies would just make that mandatory and schedule assuming they don’t need to consider coverage for break times which would just be saying no lunch break with extra steps.
For legal reasons a company wouldn’t do that. They are required by law to give you a lunch break and unless they insist on implementing a way to track staff (which isn’t going to happen), they can’t prove you didn’t go on break. In my country, Muslim staff are allowed to leave one hour earlier during Ramadhan because they’re fasting, as it’s clear they aren’t taking any lunch break. Other than that, you can leave an hour earlier if you start an hour earlier.
The simple answer for Germany: No, that violates labor law. You have a legal right to a break that cannot be waived in a contract. As your employer, I am obligated to send you on a break at that time.
I mean sure, but my coworker once said that because I have a 30 minute unpaid break I should be leaving at 17:15 not 17:00 on the dot (I arrive at like 8:45). So I just said lol that’d mean I can leave earlier if I only lunch for 5 minutes then right?
I get a paid 30 and unpaid 30. We have to clock out for the unpaid one but my jobs before this did not give breaks due to it being too busy so its a really nice change of pace.
When I worked retail at at a well known mega store chain, I got screeched at by a department manager who wasn’t even my manager because the assistant manager who was like her best friend would routinely force me to work nearly my entire shift without breaks, but I’d still take my breaks right at the end. I was guaranteed 2× 15 minute breaks and a 1 hour lunch, so I’d take the breaks 2 hours before closing and spend the last half hour half-assedly cleaning the department.
Dumbest part is, now the assistant manager that was so god awful, is bow a store manager at a different local branch of the same company.
I also got the night time store manager in trouble with the district manager because he’d poach our entire team to deal with other departments, so ours looked like shit. Surprised I wasn’t fired on the spot for clapping back at him for his shit talking in fron of the DM.
Okay I used to be so pissed about this
I worked in a grocery deli
I specifically was closer.
I came in when morning crew last hour is going on, and night crew shuffling in.
Morning crew every fucking time would wait to take their breaks and lunch in this final hour so I come in and it goes from 3 morning folks 1 night folk to like me and 1 morning folk who had an extra hour.
And the other two DO NOT RETURN they clock out and by the time the next nigh crew comes in the morning crew all left.
So like a full hour I’m manning the entire deli alone when we usually need 3 people
I wasn’t even an assistant manager
Funny enough, I’m actually allowed to do that at my work, but the amount of work it takes to actually get it approved is not worth it.