How much time are you allowed for your lunch break?

[Ns1]

30-120 minutes as long as you put in 8 working hours.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Taking time for lunch is for pussies. What, are you a union slug?

Sounds like something my old IT manager would say. If he had his way we'd have been working 24/7 with zero breaks. He used to get annoyed when someone was on vacation, or had a day off, or even left for lunch. If something happened he'd actually come to get you right in the middle of your lunch if you decided to eat in the office.

He did pretty much force people to work for like 2 days straight once because the SAN went down. Nobody was allowed to go home till it was fixed and he was pacing the room the entire time asking why it's not working yet. So glad I did not work there then, I only heard the story. It's because of people like him and money hungry companies in general that unions are good to have.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Sounds like something my old IT manager would say. If he had his way we'd have been working 24/7 with zero breaks. He used to get annoyed when someone was on vacation, or had a day off, or even left for lunch. If something happened he'd actually come to get you right in the middle of your lunch if you decided to eat in the office.

He did pretty much force people to work for like 2 days straight once because the SAN went down. Nobody was allowed to go home till it was fixed and he was pacing the room the entire time asking why it's not working yet. So glad I did not work there then, I only heard the story. It's because of people like him and money hungry companies in general that unions are good to have.

It's because of non-professionals like you who don't care about your job enough to put in 48 hour days that Unions are horrible.

 

[coldmeat]

It goes until whenever we're done.

 

[gorcorps]

I believe the official description expects a 45 hour work week with 1 hour/day for lunch. Most people don't take that long, and they aren't that stingy about hours either.

 

[boomhower]

It's because of non-professionals like you who don't care about your job enough to put in 48 hour days that Unions are horrible.

Some people don't live to work and like to see their families on a daily basis. Work to live, not live to work.

 

[Red Squirrel]

It's because of non-professionals like you who don't care about your job enough to put in 48 hour days that Unions are horrible.

Has nothing to do with caring or not, being forced to do ridiculous hours without compensation is not right. Overtime, or working during your lunch etc should be optional, and paid extra for. A job is something you do to make money so you can live. A job should not take over your life.

Where I work it's common to work long hours due to the nature of shift work and if someone is sick I sometimes even take over a few more shifts, but I'm well compensated for it, and I'm not forced to do it. Not being forced changes the way the work is perceived and you don't feel so much like a slave. The nice thing with my job too is that I may work long hours 1 week but then I may be off for almost a whole week after. So for that it's worth it. But I'd never work all these 12 hour shifts with no break.

Work to live, not live to work.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Some people don't live to work and like to see their families on a daily basis.

I like my family; I make an appointment to see them.

Work to live, not live to work.

I love what I do so much it confuses me that it pays anything at all.

Overtime, or working during your lunch etc should be optional, and paid extra for. A job is something you do to make money so you can live.

:hmm: maybe you need a new job?

Not being forced changes the way the work is perceived and you don't feel so much like a slave.

There's no maximum hours or overtime for someone on salary.

 

[RedArmy]

However long we want as long as we put in the time for that day eventually.

 

[Red Squirrel]

:hmm: maybe you need a new job?

I actually love my job, but I still want to get paid for every hour I put in, it's the most basic thing to expect from any job. Nobody should work for free. In fact, if all companies stopped paying their employees, how many people do you think would quit? Most people, when it comes down to it, are in it for the money. Otherwise they'd be spending time with family or doing other things.

 

[GasX]

If I get lunch it is because someone took over my room for 30 minutes or a I have a gap between cases.

 

[ch33zw1z]

on paper, 45. it varies based on workload. if i work through my alloted time, then I submit OT for working through lunch.

 

[sze5003]

Red squirrel do you work in tech ops since you have those odd shifts ? There was an opening at my company for one of those positions. You could work 12 hrs a day for 3-4 days then you are off for 2-3 days. I thought about it but as a developer I don't think I would like working night shift and just monitoring stuff.

It's an odd work week but I hear there is a possibility to be payed more. Knowing my company though they wouldn't as they don't pay you a lot until there are enough positions open that you moved through the levels.

I know friends who are salary and get overtime. My buddy works every weekend too because of the extra pay. If I got it as well I would be working those extra days it would really help with my student loans.

 

[Dulanic]

Allowed 30 but I work from home so it's split up since I have a 7 month old. I'm a operations analyst.

 

[darkxshade]

I lunch from 9-5 and I take a 2-3 hour work break.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

No set guidelines and most people take at least 35-40 minutes, even if they're eating in the breakroom.
Going out anywhere with colleagues automatically makes it about an hour (driving, waiting, ordering, waiting, eating, etc.)

 

[Demo24]

8-5, get an hour by the book but I rarely take that long, mostly cause I don't know what to do with myself for that long, especially out in the field. I tend to flex my hours a bit so it probably works out.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

I actually love my job, but I still want to get paid for every hour I put in, it's the most basic thing to expect from any job. Nobody should work for free. In fact, if all companies stopped paying their employees, how many people do you think would quit? Most people, when it comes down to it, are in it for the money. Otherwise they'd be spending time with family or doing other things.

First: I'm glad you enjoy your work, that's important in life. What i'm trying to explain is simply that there's a world of difference between thinking of yourself as labor, and thinking of yourself as empowered.

Otherwise they'd be spending time with family or doing other things.

If I wasn't paid (but everything was taken care of for me; ie communism) I'd do my job for free, and I'd do it just as much. But thinking about it, being a business school academic: if all companies stopped paying their employees I would probably lose most of my students.

But I would still study philosophy as it relates to organizations and organizing.


I think that most people can have a job like mine: but we put together our companies wrong because we don't trust people to be motivated by personal growth.

 

[Thump553]

Once or twice a week I take a lunch break, sometimes more often when I work through the dinner hour as well. Already been here six hours today, plan on taking the rest of the day off.

<--- damn self employed slave driver.

BTW my state, and I suspect most, have regs on exactly how long and how often the employer MUST give breaks. Look em up.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

<--- damn self employed slave driver.

Good man

 

[Chaotic42]

We get thirty minutes plus two fifteen minute breaks. I tend to take them all back-to-back, because it's hard to go get food, eat it, and be back in thirty minutes. I always leave for lunch unless we're in a time crunch.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Red squirrel do you work in tech ops since you have those odd shifts ? There was an opening at my company for one of those positions. You could work 12 hrs a day for 3-4 days then you are off for 2-3 days. I thought about it but as a developer I don't think I would like working night shift and just monitoring stuff.

It's an odd work week but I hear there is a possibility to be payed more. Knowing my company though they wouldn't as they don't pay you a lot until there are enough positions open that you moved through the levels.

I know friends who are salary and get overtime. My buddy works every weekend too because of the extra pay. If I got it as well I would be working those extra days it would really help with my student loans.

I work in a NOC, we monitor telecommunication building/equipment as well as some server/network stuff. Pretty much everything in all of the CO's/cell sites (close to 1000 of them IIRC). I actually love the night shifts, don't have to get up early. :biggrin: Kind of funny actually since I went to school for IT/computer related stuff, and not telecommunications but I picked up lot of new knowledge so far at this job and actually enjoy it more than IT.

The shift work in general is nice because of all the time off I get, and it actually pays more because of the various shift differentials, like Sunday premiums etc. For example, this schedule (4 week period), I'm working 15 days. It still comes up to what would be equivalent to 40 hours a week, but because of how it's condensed, and because weekends count, you end up with way more time off. I've actually had 7 days off in a row once, basically like having a week off, without using up vacation time.

I definitely try to go above and beyond while I'm on the clock, but it's nice to not have to bring work or stress home with you. If I do get called in for overtime, then I get paid for it. There's been some times where I racked in tons of hours due to someone being sick, but it was well worth it in the end. I got two pay checks in a row once that were like 3k. :awe:

 

[sze5003]

Yeah if I were to take a shift like that I would hope the pay was a little more. I'm betting it's not as stressful as development and prod support. Most of those guys who work those shifts would end reading logs and calling me at home to figure out what to do if there are for example hung threads. The only thing I wouldn't enjoy would be having the odd schedule and not being able to hang out with friends since most likely I would be off while they would be working.

 

[CraigRT]

30 mins... Work for a property restoration company.
Since I left my very first IT job, I have never been at a place that had a 1h lunch, which I used to think was common.

Now 30 mins seems like too much, and I wish I didn't have to get deducted for it some days because I don't even take a lunch.

 

[Leros]

I don't like taking lunch because I lose momentum. Taking a 30 minute lunch probably means 1.5 hours of lost productivity. I usually just eat at my desk while I work.

That being said, I can work any hours I want, so I could take a long offsite lunch if I chose to.