Help me settle a debate about time off

[Anonymous]

What job? In a law firm, you are insane to take off for lunch under these conditions. In government, of course, you still have the same 30 minutes for lunch that you would have had you not taken leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a fed and this sounds so crazy to me. I’m required to take a lunch break b/c I’m covered under a collective bargaining agreement. My PTO is used in lieu of duty time, not break time. I’m not burning my own leave AND then giving up my break. And honestly I wouldn’t want to work with people who hound me about taking a lunch break just because I had a morning dr’s appointment.

And you sound lazy to me.

NP. You’re being a troll. PP’s experience is my experience as well in the private sector. We are adults and should be treated as such.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What job? In a law firm, you are insane to take off for lunch under these conditions. In government, of course, you still have the same 30 minutes for lunch that you would have had you not taken leave.

Salaried exempt IC for a worldwide engineering firm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, you're entitled to lunch if you used PTO, slow or not.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a fed and this sounds so crazy to me. I’m required to take a lunch break b/c I’m covered under a collective bargaining agreement. My PTO is used in lieu of duty time, not break time. I’m not burning my own leave AND then giving up my break. And honestly I wouldn’t want to work with people who hound me about taking a lunch break just because I had a morning dr’s appointment.

And you sound lazy to me.

You misspelled "sane".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What job? In a law firm, you are insane to take off for lunch under these conditions. In government, of course, you still have the same 30 minutes for lunch that you would have had you not taken leave.

Now that's just silly.

[Anonymous]

I'm a fed and our lunches are unpaid and mandatory. So yeah- I'd take the lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What job? In a law firm, you are insane to take off for lunch under these conditions. In government, of course, you still have the same 30 minutes for lunch that you would have had you not taken leave.

Now that's just silly.

What? Which part? Both are completely true. You sound ignorant.

[Anonymous]

If I were in the office, I’d probably take a short lunch in the break room. WFH I’d probably still take a break but I don’t know about going out and running errands

[Anonymous]

Yes I'd take lunch. Unless you were "swapping" an hour dr appt for an hour lunch (ie no PTO), I think it's acceptable to take lunch.

Using PTO should not be punished.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a fed and our lunches are unpaid and mandatory. So yeah- I'd take the lunch.

Not everyone is a fed, even in DC.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like issues I have. Staff can’t understand they have daily, weekly, monthly work to do. If you take off work still has to get done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like issues I have. Staff can’t understand they have daily, weekly, monthly work to do. If you take off work still has to get done.

And yet you balanced multiple remote jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What job? In a law firm, you are insane to take off for lunch under these conditions. In government, of course, you still have the same 30 minutes for lunch that you would have had you not taken leave.

Salaried exempt IC for a worldwide engineering firm.

If this is true, there should be no “PTO” and management of your time, or you are probably misclassified.

[Anonymous]

So i I work 12s and get a one hour paid lunch break. I can leave and do what I like during that hour.
BUT if I use 4 hours of my leave to come in late or leave early then I’m only working an 8 hour day and only get a 30 min lunch not 60 mins.