Does anyone actually have a full lunch break?
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Hellsbells
World's best procrastinator
Bloody hell - i'm paid for a 35 hour week, so there's no way on earth i'm EVER going to work through my lunch break for no money 
I don't know how people can do it - sit at the desks for 8/9 hours straight without getting any daylight or walking around outside. It's just so unhealthy. On the rare occasions I've been forced to do it, I've always left work feeling ill.
I don't know how people can do it - sit at the desks for 8/9 hours straight without getting any daylight or walking around outside. It's just so unhealthy. On the rare occasions I've been forced to do it, I've always left work feeling ill.
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
God i used to find myself counting down until my lunchbreak. That 12-1 hour is sooooooooooooooooo long.
I'd normally go have a bout 10 minutes either side of that too. Plus timeto get a cup of tea when I got back so it probably added up to an hour and a half.
I'd normally go have a bout 10 minutes either side of that too. Plus timeto get a cup of tea when I got back so it probably added up to an hour and a half.
innana
Glastonbury Veteran
I do about half the time, but I always make sure that my staff take their full lunch break, unless they've explicitly said they want to take a shorter lunch and come in later/leave earlier. We all work 35 hours a week, so lunch hour is unpaid. I think it's really important to get away from work at lunch time, to stop people burning out, never mind the health & safety aspects of VDU use, etc.
Geri
wasn't born to follow
I have a window - get plenty of daylight.
Hardly anyone goes out at lunchtime where I work as they are too scared. I'm the only one who dares to venture out.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I never bother leaving my desk - nowhere else to eat and no computer either, so no need to get away
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
Yeah, I always take the full hour too. I can't imagine sitting at my desk all day, I have to get out of the office.
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Do you know that legally you are only entitled to 20 mins every 6 hours ?
That's is why where i work in a 7 and half hour day we get 2 x 10 mins and 1 x half hour (not paid)......
you guys that can choose time and length of breaks are lucky !
maomao
普費斯
I do twelve hours and don't often take a full lunch. I can if I want but I only do it if someone who can actually do my job properly and not fuck everything up is in the building. I work four on four off anyway so I tend to have shitloads of time for fucking about and relaxing anyway. I make sure the two people I'm responsible for take full breaks and if they do come back to their desks make sure their phone is logged out and they are using their computers for entertainment and not working sneakily. I always let them go home a bit early if I can too. I'm probably a shit boss from a business point of view but we have a very happy workplace and everything gets done.
Geri
wasn't born to follow
I agree, I am quite lucky in that I can take a break any time I feel like it - I can take 1/2 hour for lunch or 2 hours, come in late, leave early or whatever.
I used to work for a large insurance company and they were very strict - you had to be in at 9 on the dot, you had a 15 minute break at 10.15, lunch 12-1 etc - no flexibility at all.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
I cycle in for 08.30, usually run around for the first hour setting up equipment up, go for my strip wash and clean tee shirt, then sit down at my desk with toast and tea - though some days a couple of minor emergencies interrupts the relative calm.
I generally stuff something identifiable as lunch down me neck around 12.15, but some days it's as late as 2.
I generally stuff something identifiable as lunch down me neck around 12.15, but some days it's as late as 2.
Gavin Bl
terrible awful baaad
my employer is pretty good on this front, if there's a major flap on, then you might be expected to shorten or not take a lunch break, but its rare. Plenty of people like to seem busy and take short lunches on that basis.
But to be honest, I want to get home asap everyday, and a 30 min lunch is an easy route to that main aim for the day. I do get away from my desk though.
But to be honest, I want to get home asap everyday, and a 30 min lunch is an easy route to that main aim for the day. I do get away from my desk though.
fractionMan
Custom Title
i do.
every. single. day.
fuck working if you're not getting paid for it
every. single. day.
fuck working if you're not getting paid for it
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
hmm - if i took off lunch i'd end up staying an hour later every day, so no. i have an amount of work that has to be done. i can take a lunchbreak, but it desn't make the work go away.
fractionMan
Custom Title
If you have too much work to fit into the time you're being paid for then it's your employers problem, not yours imo.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
teachers have something called "directed time". it's how we get full time wages but only work 39 wks per year. essentially, you end up working 10 hours or so per day for those 39, plus some weekends and holidays.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
I make sure I get outside for at least 15 -20 minutes for some fresh air - my work has a habit of scheduling meetings over lunch 
mad and if I don't get some fresh air I find it very hard to concentrate - also with winter coming in I need to get some daylight exposure.
Also, I rarely eat lunch at my desk as people interrupt me, even though they can see I'm eating.
mad and if I don't get some fresh air I find it very hard to concentrate - also with winter coming in I need to get some daylight exposure.Also, I rarely eat lunch at my desk as people interrupt me, even though they can see I'm eating.
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