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Wait, there's jobs where people don't get payed for their lunch break? I thought that was a scary myth.
Almost all jobs in America...
My god. You poor souls. Its illegal to do that here. Even the most demanding "squeeze every minute out of the worker" jobs don't do that. 30 min out of your 8 hours is reserved for lunch and lunch is payed for by the employer (the food as well), by law. 8 hour shift effectively comes out to a maximum of 7.5 hours of actual work.
Yeah it used to be like that here, too. But billionaires have been attacking union power for decades to the point they were able to pull this bullshit
*Almost all non-salary jobs in America
You think most salary jobs aren't giving you specific working hours these days, which generally span 9 hours a day but pay you based on 40 hours a week?
Yep, I work for a fortune 500 and I have to clock out for lunch.
Don’t you feel fortunate? /s
To quote the bird from the Flintstones "It's a living". Honestly I don't hate my job, bored and annoyed with some stuff, but they treat us plebs with a fair amount of decency, plus they pay us decently compared to the rest of the industry.
Same.
Canada here, my lunch routine includes hitting up my digital "punch clock" (I work remote, but we have an app thing), then setting a timer to remind myself that my lunch is ending when I have about 2 minutes left on the clock. I then go and "enjoy" my lunch, and when my timer alerts, trudge back to my computer and press the "lunch is over" button.
To be fair, of the last 4 jobs I've worked, plus my current workplace, this is the only one that actually had a punch clock of any sort or variety. The rest just trusted that I took my lunch for an appropriate amount of time and took the normal amount off of my worked hours for the day.
My favorite workplace of the above set, paid me a set salary every payday, regardless of if I was in office, on vacation, sick, working partial days some days, or whatever. I'd always collect the same amount at regular intervals. They didn't bother with all the micromanagement and complexity of counting the seconds on/off shift.... Which is both good and bad, since that basically negates any overtime, but in all other circumstances, works in my favor. To be clear, OT/after hours/extra time working was rare, and not really something that happened.
I work IT support, so it definitely happened, it was just so rare that I couldn't cite any specific circumstances when it happened.
I work in The Netherlands, same thing. On the other side, I can skip lunch and leave earlier. Or can I have a longer lunch break. But I have to work 8 hrs net.
And I live in Canada and I can do the same!