Dept Store Working Hours With No Break

KimYeovil

Truegho wrote: »

Hey you, zip it! You have got a damn cheek saying what you said.

You want to get your facts right before you start jumping to the wrong conclusions about people.

Let's hope you take a similar stance with your bosses. With luck you will be sacked and face six months without any dole and end up homeless.

timmmers

Anihilator wrote: »

Finally got a job have you. I wonder why it took so long when you think this is worth moaning about.

4-5 Hours is part time so of course you don't get breaks.

Retail stores deliberately go for shorter shifts so staff don't need breaks etc

Maybe you should just be grateful that you finally found someone who looked past your crap CV and experience and that you are no longer scrounging off the taxpayer although with your attitude I give that a few weeks.

Slightly more negative and rude and judgemental than usual ...wasn't sure that was possible.

However it's correct in the fact that some companies ABUSE the law to provide less breaks than someone working 8 hours a day would get. The obvious answer in the 6 hr shift situation would seem to have a 10 minute break and add 10 to the end of the shift making it unpaid but improving the day for all concerned.

Personally I'd find another job, treat this one as a stepping stone to better things.
Also I'd use the toilet facilities whenever I was weary.

I wonder how many people posting here would have a tradesman working at their home for 6 hours without offering them a brew ? After all, he wouldn't die of thirst or anything would he ? :rotfl:

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ceridwen

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

I agree that good employers should be flexible and look after their staff but it is annoying when someone like the OP comes on here to whinge about something so commonplace.

Well - actually - I am wondering if it IS commonplace.

I would be surprised if people were expected to go that long without a break - and horrified if that DOES actually apply to some employees. Quite obviously - never mind having to stand on ones legal rights. Sheer commonsense and common decency (on the part of the employer) mean that:
- people go to the toilet whenever they need to
- have the chance to get a drink at reasonable intervals
- have a mealbreak after, say, 4 hours.

If its true that breaks tend to be unpaid for shopworkers then perhaps the way for a part-timer to ensure they have a break after 4 hours would be to ask to work on an extra 30 minutes for the same wages in order to take a 30 minute break part way through the stint. The employer wouldnt be getting any extra "time worked" for their money - but the employee would have the chance for a break part way through. Though of course there is no way to deal with employers who are so unreasonable that they wouldnt even agree to that...

ceridwen

KimYeovil wrote: »

Let's hope you take a similar stance with your bosses. With luck you will be sacked and face six months without any dole and end up homeless.

WHAT!:eek:

geri1965_2

paulwf wrote: »

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Essentially their experience in the industry had demonstrated that a rigid approach from employers had a detrimental approach on staff attendance. An example is that if an employee is running 10 minutes late and the employer is going to penalise them for this the employee would rather call in sick and head back home.

I would extend this to retail. If an employee has a moderate cold you can usually get through a shift due to regular breaks. With a 6 hour non-stop shift at the first sign of illness you know you aren't going to get through it and will have to call in sick.

Sure a business needs to have structure. But at the same time flexibility (e.g. letting the 10 minutes late worker finish 10 minutes later) can reap rewards for both parties.

Lets drop the Victorian workhouse attitude. Happy employees cost employers a lot less.

I couldn't agree with you more. My employers are very flexible - I can come and go as I please, as long as I do my hours. If I am feeling ill, I can leave early or come in late and not have to have a sick day, as long as I make up the time.

Other places I've worked have given people the third degree for being 2 minutes late.

^!£$&

When I worked in retail during my late teens & early twenties I had varying experiences with breaks depending on the retailer I worked for:

At a well know childrenswear store I would work 4 hour shifts meaning no break but would keep a bottle of water close by & could pop to the loo providing I let someone on the shopfloor know where I was going. My line manager was great about it she would even give me jobs to do in the stock room so I could have a break from the customers!!

Alternatively I did work for a dvd store working 6+ hr shifts with no break as I was on single cover so if needed to I'd just lock up the store & pop to the loo/ grab drink etc..

surreysaver

Zazen999 wrote: »

Because boys have been known to pee behind a tree. So I've heard.

So have girls.

Zazen999

surreysaver wrote: »

So have girls.

Not at work we don't!

ckerrd

faded_flowers wrote: »

If you're over 18 it's a 15 minute break if you work 6 hours. You'll get used to it.

Where do you get the 15 minute figure from?

ckerrd

Zazen999 wrote: »

Not at work we don't!

Some have