Mal ,'Serenity'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Also, I am sure that is not legal Suzi (unless you are salaried but they are paying you overtime?) What they could do is pay you for the hours worked, and give you unpaid time and a half off.
So week one, you get paid for 50 hours (40 hours and 10 hour overtime) and the next week you work and get paid for 25 hours- (40 hours minus time and a half). I am not sure if that messes with fulltime status, though.
9-5 is a 40 hr workweek. The change is that lunch started being considered personal time.
But why start at 9, is my question. Seems like there must be some historical reason.
Oh, man, it is so cold and it makes me hate everything.
I work 9-6 and I get an hour lunch--except in busy times--so that's my 8-hour day though I'm here for 9 hours. Brown nosers like to work through their lunch in order to get more OT and to impress the bosses with their go-getterness.
I work through lunch all the time because I am inertia's bitch.
Not getting paid for lunch is bullshitty bullshit is what.
Two of my co-workers have discovered my stash of leftover Halloween candy. It may go a little faster now.
I genuinely do not know what people did to look busy all the time before the internet.
No kidding!! I remember playing a lot of free cell, at one point...
I haven't always worked in offices, but when I have I was usually actually busy. There was always filing or something to be done. Or it was understood that reading on the job was okay.
I think if I had a full hour allotted for lunch I would be more likely to take it away from my desk. Half an hour isn't really enough time to go to a restaurant and get served, or run errands or whatever. Half an hour is what we are legally entitled to (10 minutes paid break after 2 hours, half-hour unpaid after 4 hours unless the full day will be less than 6 hours, and another 10 minutes paid break two hours after lunch IIRC. I should make more of an effort to take those 10 minute breaks)
No kidding!! I remember playing a lot of free cell, at one point...
Yep. Or solitaire.
I got really good at hitting Alt-Tab very quickly back then.