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June 2011 Moms
IdigDirt
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Random question about work lunch times
IdigDirt
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I am bored and this popped into my head.
How long do you get for lunch at work? Do you have to make up that time at the end of the day?
I work 7-3 and get half hour for lunch and don't have to make up the time but DH's work says he MUST take an hour and stay an hour later so working 10 hours since he rarely takes a lunch (it's 10 because they are required to work 45 hours a week).
What is your company policy (and if you are a rebel what do you do?)
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Re: Random question about work lunch times
I work 6-2:30 = 8.5 hours
I take a 1/2 hour lunch
So I guess yes, I make up the 1/2 hour.
I work for a VERY large title company and theya re very strict on lunch schedules. 
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I am supposed to take an hour, and it is unpaid, so I have to make it up. I am here 9 hours instead of 8. I notice a lot of the staff who have been here longer sometimes skip lunch and go home early, so once I have put in a bit more time here I may start doing that. I would much rather go home an hour earlier than take a lunch.
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I work 7-3 so I don't technically have a lunch. I almost always just eat at my desk, but on the rare that I don't, it's no big deal. We all work so much unpaid overtime that nobody is standing at our desks with a stopwatch.
My core hours are 8-5 - 8 hour day and one hour unpaid lunch. I am an hourly employee and punch a clock (or rather, I log into ADP and clock in and out). Most days, I use my lunch break to go to the gym so usually I am over by at least 10 minutes. Other places I have worked it would be a big deal. Not here...I just make the time up at the end of the day or beginning of the day or some other day.
I work 8-5 with a hour lunch. We are salaried so no one is clocking you as long as you get what you need to get done. So I have taken 2.5 hour lunches and 5 min lunches. I just take what I want when I want. There is no rule.
I am also salaried. Generally I work from 7 - 4. I usually take a 30 min lunch. The non-salaried employees work from 7-3:30. They take a 30 min unpaid lunch. they also have two 15 min paid breaks throughout the day.
My DH is like you. He works from 7-3 and usually grabs lunch and eats it at his desk. I don't think that is very common though. I think it is great because DH can pick up DS early with his hours.
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I'm salaried, non exempt so I'm required to turn in a time sheet. I am supposed to "work" 40 hours a week and I'm required to take at least 30 minutes a day for lunch, so at minimum I should be at the office 8.5 hours a day if I only take 30 minutes. However, I rarely take a lunch away from my desk. At least not this summer because we're allowed to do summer hours this year. I've been working 7:30-5:00 with a 30 minute break so I leave around 2 on Fridays!
Regular hours though I take 1-2 full lunch hours, and the rest of the week is 30 minutes, or so I claim. That doesn't mean I get to leave earlier than 4:30 though.. I have too many West Coast markets I support to get away with that
I'm a manager at a restaurant, we eat standing up whenever there's a second to do so lol
ETA: I work 7 to 2 three or four times a week, then once a week I work 6PM to 2AM
Haha!! This is me too. I am trauma NP and I work 7am-5pm, sometimes later if its busy. I eat lunch when I can while still writing orders, doing discharge paperwork, writing daily notes and answering a million questions from the nurses.
My only break away is when I pump and lately I have used the computer on wheels to work, while pumping because we have been so busy =(
I worked an office job in college and we worked 8 - 5 with an hour unpaid lunch, but if you needed to leave early for some reason they would let you skip it.
My first teaching job was for a mental health agency so we had to follow the same rules as others in the agency so we worked 8:30 - 4:30. Students were in 8:45 - 11:45 and 12:45 - 3:45. We technically worked a 7.5 hour day. So a 30 minute unpaid lunch. Because we were not able to take two 15 minute breaks like other sections, that was part of our lunch so we got an hour. I will say this was one of the worst places I've ever worked for in terms of "clocking hours." They would get really worked up about you being a minute or two late or leaving before exactly 4:30, never mind all the times I had to wait with students for their parents to pick them up (it was preschool) and that cut into my lunch...
Back when I worked you could take as long as you wanted/needed for lunch (within reason) because you had to make it up. We had a total time accounting system so you just logged what hours you were working but you had some flexibility built in. For example, I could make hair appts in the middle of the day or run errands as long as I stayed late that night.
The downside of that system is that most people never take lunch because they don't want to stay later so it was an incredibly unsocial office.