Andy? Izzat you?
Posted on 05/27/2006 1:06:05 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Andy? Izzat you?
From all the replies to this post I can conclude that these jobs with no lunch breaks or lunch breaks that employers won't pay for are jobs that real Americans don't want.
You need jobs like mine where you take lunch when you get hungry, sometimes eating and Freeping, other times going out and sampling the local cuisine and, once in a while, if the weather is particularly nice and the fish are biting, calling it a day sometime around the noon hour and having lunch as I steer my boat towards one of my favorite fishing spots.
Leave those sucky jobs with the limited lunch options to the stinking border jumpers!
BTW, I get paid a lot of money, too.
Viva La Capitalism!
Clockwatchers aren't executive material.
Remember that when you're running out the door at 4:29pm.
Even Unions recognize there is no free lunch. You get paid 8 hours for 8 hours worked. Would you be willing to get 7.5 hours paid and have an 8 hour shift?
Why should you get paid for unproductive time? < /employers perspective>
Btw, my lunch break is an hour, unpaid, but I usually show up at 7-7:15 and stay until 5:30. I have responsibility. I am salary, so I am not paid by the hour, but what i accomplish. I am at my office right now, working, and nobody is here. I will not get any credit for it, but my projects will run more smoothly, make more $ for the company, and I will get a biger bonus at the end of the year.
Hey, Doug, how are the wife & kids?
Clockwatchers are smart. Never give your company time they didn't pay for, work to live don't live to work. All these stories of people not taking lunch for years and years, it's sad. Nobody's tombstone ever said they should have spent more time at work. I've been an executive, my employees loved me because my motto was: work your ass off for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, get the job done, get out of here, have a life. I'm never impressed by people that spend vast long hours at work, and companies that are only impressed by long hours should be left.
Because your all knowing, all wise Govt did not write the law for it to be excuted that way. Welcome to the wonderful one size fits all world of the Politicians with a Messiah Complex have created for you. How DARE you be unhappy after all they have done for you!
In most cases, if you give your employer a little more, they will give you a little more.
I have worked places that expected a 55 hour week for salary. I amnow at a really good company that makes a much higher margin, and they LOVE when guys really work hard and put in 45 hours a week. Some of the kids I have come through as intern have NO CLUE how good they have it here, and think going somewhere else for another $3,000 a year is smart.
Mmmm Okay...
You sound like a Democrat who hates the company who gives him a job.
I'm an executive on salary and I work as many hours as it takes for me to do the best possible quality work that I can. Spending quality time with my family is my most important goal - but it doesn't have to interfere with a job well done.
I'm impressed with the raises and promotions that come my way and the loving family that is my anchor. They are not mutually exclusive.
Luxury.
Why, in the So Cal borax mine I work in, it's 18 hour shifts with no lunch. During our only 5 minute break, we're made to lay on a bed of broken glass, although we are given a moldy piece of a Starbuck's scone to chew on.
Be happy with your cushy job and 30 minute lunch.
Those are the good kind of companies, the ones that appreciate extra hours or effort. I'm more of an extra effort than hours guy, I'd rather work at top speed for 8 hours than work 10 minutes of OT. Of course I'm also a natural born multitasker, so if I kick it into gear I can get two or three days work done in one day.
The companies that expect long hours are also the ones that will never reward the extra effort. It's not in their best interest. They know that every time they convince 2 employees to work 60 hours instead of 40 they just got an extra full time employee for free, and why would they want to promote an employee that's going to require 1 1/2 hires to back fill his old position. Companies like that frequently don't back fill, that's the sure sign of pure user company, anybody that gives promotions without backfill (thus now expecting the person to do two jobs for the price of one) should be resigned ASAP.
My erstwhile employment started out with a "we're very laid-back" philosophy. Slowly, over time, that changed. First they took away our right to leave the office for lunch. We'll provide it for you, but you have to stay in the building. Then they began extending work hours. Then they began to insist that all employees play basketball together after work, and hanging out during weekends. It was like a cult "WE are your friends now." Given that the job wasn't all the great from the get-go, I quit.
I hate it when I accidentally stick a hot poker in my eye.
Funy how you immediately ahve to go to the insult. No, I'm a person who's worked for good companies and bad and I know the difference, and one of the differences is the good companies know you should have a life outside of work. Good companies appreciate extra effort, bad companies expect it and offer little real reward. I'm also a person with a wife and a life outside of work who knows what I value most.
I get my job done well in as few hours as possible. By be very good at multi-tasking and mutli-resulting (constructing a single task that achieves multiple goals) I know that I get a lot done in a short amount of time. I also believe it's managements job to make sure their employees have all the tools necessary to get the job done without pulling the massive hours. Part of it also is that I'm a QA guy, I've seen how the quality of people's work suffers when they start having to pull 50, 60, 70 hour work weeks on a regular basis. If you want the job done right you need to let people get away from work and rest.
I don't need an hour lunch and I don't need two 15 minutes breaks.
I don't need lunch. Period.
Lunch is for SUCKERS!
Save time and eat on the run.
My favorite job was working 8 am to 6 pm without a lunch break. I only worked 4 days a week, 10 hours a day. It was great!
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