Gen Z now wants to get paid for breaks

[Anonymous]

Wait until Gen Z lawyers start suing everybody

[Anonymous]

If a break is mandatory then it should be paid.

Would be okay if your work implemented four 15 minute smoke breaks and said they were unpaid.

Just because employers were getting away with forcing workers to take unpaid breaks doesn’t mean it’s ok!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cant load tiktok, can you explain what the premise is?

She crying because she doesn’t get paid doing the lunch breaks..

So she wants to be paid for the full 8 (or whatever) hours she is at work, instead of forcing a break and only getting paid for 7.5?

Idk doesnt seem that unreasonable.

I’m with this. I’d rather skip lunch and get off work half an hour earlier.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was just complaining to my husband about my Gen Z colleagues (we’re older millennials). Not only do they have a very irreverent approach to work - no respect for hierarchy, no sense of urgency, no proactive problem solving - they ask a million questions instead of just doing stuff. Very aggravating.

Get used to it evolve or die

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRTMG1sR/


I’m not having this. I’m 50, and not once in my life have I heard people complain like this…..:

Are you against work-life balance and fair compensation?

[Anonymous]

Didn't the work day used to be 9-5, inclusive of lunch? I'm an older millennial/young Gen X, and I've put in the unpaid time to get the experience and position myself for more opportunities, but I don't look down on those who can't or won't do that. We really should respect the balance of work and personal time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She sound like she is joking and doing it for TT.
We worked 12-hours shifts non-stop with couple of 1-minute bathroom breaks. I ended up in ER two times. I lost count of how many times others had to go. Someone collapsed on the street- all work related.
I also didn't get paid for training or the minimum required; lots of wage theft.
I'm glad this generation are not letting anything remotely similar happen to them.

Salary?

[Anonymous]

If you are an hourly worker and you have to be at work, you should be paid. I don't see what's entitled about that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cant load tiktok, can you explain what the premise is?

She crying because she doesn’t get paid doing the lunch breaks..

So she wants to be paid for the full 8 (or whatever) hours she is at work, instead of forcing a break and only getting paid for 7.5?

Idk doesnt seem that unreasonable.

I’m with this. I’d rather skip lunch and get off work half an hour earlier.

Same. I'm an RN so don't even really have a dog in this fight. However, I'd be annoyed that I was forced to take an unpaid break if I didn't want it. Would much rather take that 30 min unpaid at the end of the day and get out earlier.

[Anonymous]

Agree that mandatory breaks should be paid for hourly workers.

Agree that Gen Z sucks. Hate working with them

[Anonymous]

We had mandatory unpaid breaks when I was an hourly paid retail worker. They are awful b/c you can't really do anything in those 45 mins, and so you are forced to sit in some bleak break room w/o getting paid. It did force me to work super hard at getting another job very fast though, so maybe was a good thing in the end.

[Anonymous]

Older millennial that manages Gen Z.

Capitalism is trash, work week should be 4 days and 30 hours. Unpaid breaks that you’re required to take should be paid.

And also.

I spent 30 minutes of my day today trying to figure out a mystery call situation because THREE WHOLE ADULTS never bothered to ask who was calling, during 3 separate calls that ranged from 1 minutes to 15 minutes. I spend entirely too much of my time managing the “feelings” of adults.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If a break is mandatory then it should be paid.

Would be okay if your work implemented four 15 minute smoke breaks and said they were unpaid.

Just because employers were getting away with forcing workers to take unpaid breaks doesn’t mean it’s ok!

Fed gov requires a 30 minute lunch break and it is unpaid. You have to be there 8.5 hours to get credit for 8 hours. You can not skip lunch and leave early.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was just complaining to my husband about my Gen Z colleagues (we’re older millennials). Not only do they have a very irreverent approach to work - no respect for hierarchy, no sense of urgency, no proactive problem solving - they ask a million questions instead of just doing stuff. Very aggravating.

Get used to it evolve or die

If the continue on this path, businesses will die.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If a break is mandatory then it should be paid.

Would be okay if your work implemented four 15 minute smoke breaks and said they were unpaid.

Just because employers were getting away with forcing workers to take unpaid breaks doesn’t mean it’s ok!

+1

I’m a millennial and am glad to see this younger generation pushing back on crappy workplace policies. I’m a fed and hate having to take a stupid unpaid 30 min lunch break every day. That’s over 10 hours per month (130 hours/year) that I’m told what to do with my day, but am not compensated for. It’s stupid.

I don’t understand all you “yes sir” lemmings complying with arbitrary rules without question just because tradition for tradition sake or whatever.

And tbh with all the technological advances over the past few decades there just isn’t any reason for the 40+ hour workweek to exist anyway. I bet it will go the way of the dodo within the next 15-20 years.