KFI: If you’ve ever skipped a lunch break because you’re worried your boss might be judging you for not working hard enough you aren’t alone. A new study says nearly 20 percent of North American workers worry their bosses won’t think they’re hardworking enough if they take regular lunch breaks. At least thirteen percent of people worry their co-workers will judge them for taking lunch. MORE
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Well, well, well. The times they are a-changin’. During the second Great Depression under obama, a lot of people considered themselves lucky to have a job. No wonder they are fearful of being unjustly judged for eating lunch during LUNCH TIME. These same employers better be careful about that, because they’ll be competing for a smaller and smaller pool of qualified employees and they’ll have to build employee cafeterias just to attract the best people.
I can’t be guilted into anything, so I always took my lunch and my breaks. lol.
The people worried about their breaks are usually working in a place where the boss and his/her favorites are taking their sweet ass time getting back to work after lunch.
And by law, you are supposed to take your breaks or be paid for missing them.
I eat my lunch while I’m driving and may occasionally stop and get something at a fast food place if I have the time. The Chik-Fil-A in Kalispell, Mt. is one of my weaknesses but I’m usually driving past there by lunch time.
How the hell else am I gonna get a ‘nooner’?
I got called into HR and a meeting with “The Big Boss” for “not” taking my lunch at the regular time. (hauling material for a county road & bridge job)….I explained to them that I drove through the normal lunch hour so the $750K road grader and the $27 an hour operator would have something to do when they got off of the regularly scheduled lunch time. Besides, I said “I can eat my sandwich while driving the hour and a half round trip or eat it while waiting to get loaded”….keeping the $1.5 million dollars worth of equipment busy wasn’t their priority.
If you think the government is lazy and incompetent, well, your optimistic by half….
Where I live in the Great White North, employees must take a lunch break by the five hour mark or the employer can be fined. And the government does do audits.
If the employee is spending most of the morning on social media with their phones, then, well….
During the last 30+ years of my employment in both the private and public sector, I held positions that gave me pretty much total autonomy. Most of the time management didn’t know or care to where I was or what I was doing and at what time. They only got concerned when I went on vacation and couldn’t be reached for some reason or another.
If you expect a lot out of your employees while they are in the work space. Then you need them to have taken proper lunches and breaks.
If I find people NOT taking breaks and lunches, that is when I take action to enforce that they take the proper time to rest and fuel themselves.
I was always one for never taking break and lunch myself (back in the days of my hourly employment). Just working through. Partially for execution of task but also for the fact that the busier you are and the fewer breaks you take the faster the day flows.
@.45-70 June 22, 2018 at 12:20 pm
> How the hell else am I gonna get a ‘nooner’?
If you’re such an untitled loser that you don’t have a desk and an intern, then you don’t deserve a nooner.
I once worked at a place where come 5 O’clock, which was quitting time, most guys stayed at their desk.
We were all salary but they were too scared for their jobs to leave until 20-30 minutes after…or if the boss was gone.
I didn’t follow said protocol and I didn’t last very long at that company.
The boss was indeed an asshole! 🙁
Where I used to work, all I would get off for lunch is one glove.
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JUNE 22, 2018 AT 3:27 PM
Never had a desk when employed by another.
My current “part time” job (having failed miserably twice at retirement and moma saying “If you don’t get outta here and go do something we’re gonna have a problem…”) where I’m alone and unsupervised every shift, no boss, just fill a seat and read the threads here and elsewhere while pretending to be security is a no brainer.
On the other hand my previous forty plus years I always had an asshole for a boss. He was also an emotional midget with a very bad attitude and it’s a miracle that he was able to run any businesses at, all while working with the general public and still make a buck. Especially the last ten years or so when he was always carrying a couple of sidearms exposed and concealed. He also underpaid me for everything I ever did. Like the sign said “Overworked and Underlaid.”
But then being self employed for that length time did allow me to go hunting or fishing any time I wanted…
ONly slaves have bosses.
can join a regiment and have a leader but if there is a “Boss” feeling to anything then this is slavery. The whole, “We niggers were slaves” is a distraction from the slave-model in general.
If you FEEL like a slave, such that you worry about your boss seeing you take lunch – THEN you are a slave. If you enjoy your job in general and feel some freedom, then you are part of a regiment, a member.