Comment on Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks?

• Sundial@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sounds like you’ve been taken advantage of. Assuming you live in a western country they should have some kind of department for labor violations you can escalate to if it comes that.

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m in the US.

    I’ve never had a job tell us we can’t take our 15s. But most places keep staffing tight enough, and busy enough, that people feel guilty taking a 15 unless they have a real reason to.

    Personally, I find them kind of frustrating. By the time I begin to calm down, it’s time to head back. It’s not even like a real break. Where I am now, 30min is auto deduced for lunch, so we take 45min lunches most of the time.

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    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve never had a job tell us we can’t take our 15s.

      That’s be super illegal, yeah

      I’ve worked one place that enforced they be 10 minutes, though, which is the requirement in California, shockingly

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The worst is when they’re like that about lunch breaks, but when it comes to smoking, all bets are off. If you don’t smoke, then you can just go fuck yourself I guess…

      Much less common than it used to be, but still a thing some places.

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m in Germany. I’m 40 years old. And this year, for the first time in my life, I work in a job that is 9 to 5 with an hour of breaks.
    Which counts as 7 working hours. Because the breaks are not included as work time. Never have been. In none of the official, unionized jobs I ever worked.

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• bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Most jobs I’ve had will schedule 8-430/9-530/etc, so that you work a full 8 hours but you have a 30min mandatory unpaid lunch break. The two 15 min breaks are paid, but they were also “discouraged.”

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