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re: Does your work pay you for your lunch break?
Posted on 12/12/25 at 1:03 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
Posted on 12/12/25 at 1:03 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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I went to college so I don’t have an hourly job
I have 3 college degrees that would qualify me for many salary jobs that would be pay cuts. These idiots I work for have no idea what they got themselves into when they switched me from salary to hourly.
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Posted on 12/12/25 at 1:11 pm to CatsGoneWild
We expect and encourage our salaried office workers to take a lunch break. With that said, we sort of calculate it in to their time. If a person usually arrives at 8, then he’s expected to be there until 5ish.
We’ve leased out a nice outdoor ‘rooftop’ spot on the 16th floor that they are free to use to reflect or eat their lunch in peace while not getting burnt out. Studies have shown ‘pushing thru’ isn’t always the best for productivity.
We’ve leased out a nice outdoor ‘rooftop’ spot on the 16th floor that they are free to use to reflect or eat their lunch in peace while not getting burnt out. Studies have shown ‘pushing thru’ isn’t always the best for productivity.
This post was edited on 12/12/25 at 1:16 pm
Posted on 12/12/25 at 1:13 pm to Joshjrn
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When people at that previous job would talk about how long the day felt and I would respond "yeah, a nine hour day is tough and can drag", they would always look at me like I was insane, saying that we worked an eight hour day. I would say that's technically true, but only if lunch is unpaid. I would then have them start at 8am and count out the hours to 5pm on their fingers. The look of realization was always fun
By that logic, should commute time also be considered in the calculation?
Posted on 12/12/25 at 1:17 pm to CatsGoneWild
Boss makes a dollar, and I make a dime that's why I eat and shite on the company time.
Posted on 12/12/25 at 1:18 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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And make $3k/day
$3,500
Posted on 12/12/25 at 1:21 pm to BabyTac
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salaried office workers
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arrives at 8, then he’s expected to be there until 5ish.
Posted on 12/12/25 at 1:27 pm to madamsquirrel
…well, would that not be an 8 hour day with an hours worth of breaks? Last I checked, that was the expectation. We are paying them.
This post was edited on 12/12/25 at 1:28 pm
Posted on 12/12/25 at 1:31 pm to BabyTac
If I am being paid by the year and completing all of my tasks I do not want any one micromanaging my arse in seat time.
Posted on 12/12/25 at 2:32 pm to Weekend Warrior79
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By that logic, should commute time also be considered in the calculation?
I would be very curious to see laid out the "logic" you employed to equate the two.
Posted on 12/12/25 at 3:21 pm to Joshjrn
If you are going to include the unpaid time for your lunch break, when you are presumably not performing any work functions and have the ability to leave the employer premises, then why would you exclude the commute time that must be devoted to the same employer? This is time that you must take away from your personal day and devote to your employer
Posted on 12/12/25 at 3:41 pm to madamsquirrel
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completing all of my tasks
Is that a salaried employee’s goal? Do you expect a promotion or to move up the ladder by simply ‘completing my tasks’? Honest question because I hear that a lot from the younger generation.
Do you want a job or career? The later doesn’t come from just simply doing your job.
Posted on 12/12/25 at 3:43 pm to BabyTac
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Do you want a job or career?
You don’t get either if you get arrested for theft.
Posted on 12/12/25 at 3:52 pm to CatsGoneWild
Wow, I cant imagine being hourly.
Posted on 12/12/25 at 6:34 pm to nola tiger lsu
People acting like hourly is bad. I have a pension,401, 6 weeks vaca and paid sick days.
Not many salary can say the same.
Not many salary can say the same.
Posted on 12/12/25 at 6:39 pm to CatsGoneWild
With what I do, I’m likely to get a phone call during the weekend or at 11pm any day of the night if someone does something stupid.
So that said, I take however long of a lunch I want, within reason. Sometimes I’m eating in my office and working, other times, I’m Alan Jackson taking the really long lunch break.
So that said, I take however long of a lunch I want, within reason. Sometimes I’m eating in my office and working, other times, I’m Alan Jackson taking the really long lunch break.
Posted on 12/12/25 at 6:41 pm to CatsGoneWild
Not only do they pay me to eat lunch, but I have an expense account, so they pay for my lunch, and I’m remote, so they pay for my lunch on the golf course, lol.
Posted on 12/12/25 at 6:41 pm to Weekend Warrior79
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If you are going to include the unpaid time for your lunch break, when you are presumably not performing any work functions and have the ability to leave the employer premises, then why would you exclude the commute time that must be devoted to the same employer? This is time that you must take away from your personal day and devote to your employer
I can choose to live closer or further away from my place of employment. Comparing the two is nonsensical. Further, most employers will not allow their employees to forgo lunch in return for showing up late or leaving early every day. The entire premise of the eight hour workday was "eight hours of work, eight hours of leisure, eight hours of sleep". The idea that someone would work eight hours straight with zero breaks, and if they have the audacity to take a break for any reason, that time needs to be clawed back minute by minute, is a tragically modern one.
Posted on 12/12/25 at 6:56 pm to BabyTac
I cant answer that question because my career was sales. No salary just commission. No one cared about hours or lunch breaks. I made a percentage of what I sold. I was motivated by competition like it was a sport. Give me a leader board...
I am now semi retired and paid by the job to work at home in my jammies. The very small time in my life I had a salaried job I was paid to supervise others. And my boss damn sure did not care whether my arse was in my seat or not. They cared if my employees did their job. Which they did because I was effective at my job without being arse in seat 40 hours.
I am now semi retired and paid by the job to work at home in my jammies. The very small time in my life I had a salaried job I was paid to supervise others. And my boss damn sure did not care whether my arse was in my seat or not. They cared if my employees did their job. Which they did because I was effective at my job without being arse in seat 40 hours.
Posted on 12/12/25 at 7:08 pm to CatsGoneWild
All companies pay everyone for lunch time. They just dont always know it. 
Posted on 12/12/25 at 7:10 pm to CatsGoneWild
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This post was edited on 12/12/25 at 7:11 pm
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