Exploitation and no lunch hour.

scheming_gypsy

I work from 7am to 3:30pm and have a 30 minute lunch break - hence the extra 30 minutes and it's set at 12:30pm to 1pm for all the site

BUT !!! and this is a very important BUT !! If i'm working till 5pm I won't have lunch till around 1:30pm / 2pm. On a previous contract I'd do shifts, when i was on a 7am - 3pm shift I'd have a 10 minute break around 8:45am my lunch break would be around 10:30am and a 10 minute afternoon break at around 1:15pm (the breaks are because we work with computers and you're supposed to have time away from them). I'd grab lunch in my 1:15pm break as it's too early to have lunch at 10:30am.

So if i was working from 8am - 1pm, I wouldn't have a meal between those times anyway, and even if i'm not working i don't eat between those times.

ILW

magenta22 wrote: »

I have a question because I am really curious to know.....

All the people who have posted replies on this thread, how many of you have a lunch/break and/or something to eat?

I take a break if and when it is possible. Self employed and if in the middle of something, will quite often eat nothing until mid evening after a 7.30 am start. Amazingly I am still alive.
Do get through a lot of coffee though.

thorsoak

I'm 68 and rejoined the workforce in May, after losing my OH at the end of January.

I work 4 days a week, from 6.45am to 1.p.m, in the local corner shop, baking the pre-frozen bread rolls and cakes, and cooking the frozen sausage rolls/steak bakes etc for the ready to go counter - so you can imagine that it is pretty hectic for that time.

Now I do only live along the road from the shop, but I manage to have a bowl of porridge and a cup of coffee before I leave. This sustains me for the morning - with two or three coffees as I work.

DCFC79

magenta22 wrote: »

I have a question because I am really curious to know.....

All the people who have posted replies on this thread, how many of you have a lunch/break and/or something to eat?

i get up around 5 15am to get to work for 6am and work till 10am and i get home around 10 15 and i generally dont have anything to eat till about 11 or 12. Ideally id like to have something before i leave but theres nothing in that id like to eat so get something from work and cook a late brekkie when i get home.

mskemp85

[quote=[Deleted User];48237075]Just been reading the other threads listed in this one.

From the OPs other threads its obvious he is a work-shy, lazy layabout whos got no intention of ever working for a living.

Dont waste your time on him![/QUOTE]

Agreed. From what I've read the OP appears to be looking for people to tell him that he should quit this job, and that we should just go back to claiming JSA and other benifits.

Sadly, as mentioned by other posters, this is the real world and those that can work should work. If that means working five hours without a break (which most of us do anyway), then so be it. Benifits should be there for those in geniune need, not work shy moochers.

adouglasmhor

magenta22 wrote: »

I have a question because I am really curious to know.....

All the people who have posted replies on this thread, how many of you have a lunch/break and/or something to eat?

I have an unpaid lunch break which sometimes gets interrupted or missed - then again I am not a job seeker, have specialist skills, get paid a salary and am in a union. I have worked retail and security as well, got breaks at both. But the OP doesn't do enough work to have a statutory break. Maybe he should take somefruit or trail mix to keep him going. Maybe he should grow a pear.

GotToChange

magenta22 wrote: »

I have a question because I am really curious to know.....

All the people who have posted replies on this thread, how many of you have a lunch/break and/or something to eat?

Oh no.

You could have asked more specifically, "How many of you work "for nothing"/incredibly low pay*.......?"

The martyrs/superpeople/holier-than-thous will all post specific details of their routines at the same time as slagging off the OP.

Predictable.



*Yes, this brings up the whole work for JSA debate again. So let's not.

Additionally, I can go three or four days without a full meal and possibly only eat a bowl of cornflakes in a day - and no, I'm not dead either - but this is not nutritionally correct and it is my own issue and problem. I do not see it as a reason to bash the OP - and I don't think he wants to quit and go back on JSA - but he does probably want a better?/fair deal where he is.

thorsoak

GotToChange wrote: »

Oh no.

You could have asked more specifically, "How many of you work "for nothing"/incredibly low pay*.......?"

The martyrs/superpeople/holier-than-thous will all post specific details of their routines at the same time as slagging off the OP.

Predictable.


*Yes, this brings up the whole work for JSA debate again. So let's not.

Additionally, I can go three or four days without a full meal and possibly only eat a bowl of cornflakes in a day - and no, I'm not dead either - but this is not nutritionally correct and it is my own issue and problem. I do not see it as a reason to bash the OP - and I don't think he wants to quit and go back on JSA - but he does probably want a better?/fair deal where he is.

Actually, he wants Alan Sugar's job/money without putting in the graft!

scheming_gypsy

He also wants to work from 8am to 1pm and have an hours lunch thrown in,

mskemp85

GotToChange wrote: »

Oh no.

You could have asked more specifically, "How many of you work "for nothing"/incredibly low pay*.......?"

The martyrs/superpeople/holier-than-thous will all post specific details of their routines at the same time as slagging off the OP.

Predictable.



*Yes, this brings up the whole work for JSA debate again. So let's not.

Additionally, I can go three or four days without a full meal and possibly only eat a bowl of cornflakes in a day - and no, I'm not dead either - but this is not nutritionally correct and it is my own issue and problem. I do not see it as a reason to bash the OP - and I don't think he wants to quit and go back on JSA - but he does probably want a better?/fair deal where he is.

Seems like he has a fair deal now. He's only working 5 hours. People often go five hours between meals.