In the US, it is extremely common for people to only get a half an hour, and not even a full hour, and it’s usually unpaid.
EDIT:
Oh, and I left out the best part. At many jobs it doesn’t count toward your work hours either, so you work an eight and a half hour day or a nine hour day because you got your lunch break.
It’s time I can’t be doing things I’d like to be, because It’s in the middle of a workday.
The company wants me to pay it for any inconvenience I cause it, the same should apply in the other direction. I already give up time for nothing in the commute they insist on in order to validate the existence of middle management and their investment in real estate, you want me to take the break I biologically need to be effective at work as unpaid too?
I can go home and do stuff at home I can do in my free time the same way I can on a free/vacation day.
The workplace accomodates recovery/sustenance time to refuel your body to do more stuff.
If you skip break to run errands instead of doing it after work, that’s a you-problem.
And that’s the horseshit part. Now you’re at eight and a half hours of work time because they’re not paying you for lunch so you got to make up that extra 30 minutes.
It’s not really (hasn’t been since the 70s). But you are expected to take an hour, and eating at your desk is typically frowned upon (there are exceptions, we have toxic places too).
One hour ? In France it is customary for lunch break to be TWO hours, and I won’t stand for anything less.
Depends on the workplace. Where I am I have a full hour. A relative only 45min or something like that.
In the US, it is extremely common for people to only get a half an hour, and not even a full hour, and it’s usually unpaid.
EDIT: Oh, and I left out the best part. At many jobs it doesn’t count toward your work hours either, so you work an eight and a half hour day or a nine hour day because you got your lunch break.
Where does a break count towards work hours?
Seems completely unlogical to me.
Break is you-time not company-time.
Places in the U.S. even used to have paid lunch. Now the only way you get a paid lunch is if your salary.
Seems weird to me.
Paid vacation is more or less the same though.
Both seem weird.
Though I am not complaining about it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s time I can’t be doing things I’d like to be, because It’s in the middle of a workday.
The company wants me to pay it for any inconvenience I cause it, the same should apply in the other direction. I already give up time for nothing in the commute they insist on in order to validate the existence of middle management and their investment in real estate, you want me to take the break I biologically need to be effective at work as unpaid too?
Shill harder.
Doesnt matter and I am not shilling.
I can go home and do stuff at home I can do in my free time the same way I can on a free/vacation day.
The workplace accomodates recovery/sustenance time to refuel your body to do more stuff.
If you skip break to run errands instead of doing it after work, that’s a you-problem.
Yeah I take half an hour because it’s unpaid. Losing money on the already shit wage they give me
I start at 8, do 30ish minutes of lunch and am out at 430. You get what you get
And that’s the horseshit part. Now you’re at eight and a half hours of work time because they’re not paying you for lunch so you got to make up that extra 30 minutes.
Oh I definitely don’t work when I eat. And if I do I absolutely do not track it as lunch.
And I say eight and a half hours because when you have a 30 minute lunch it’s hard to actually leave the building to go get something to eat.
In my case we had half-hour lunch and two 15-minute breaks throughout the day for 1 hour total.
It’s not really (hasn’t been since the 70s). But you are expected to take an hour, and eating at your desk is typically frowned upon (there are exceptions, we have toxic places too).