Help me settle a debate about time off

[Anonymous]

One time at the office my ex coworker made a snarky comment because I went to the refrigerator to get my sandwich on a day we were getting let out early.

He has since been laid off and I have been promoted several times.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who is this debate with? Do people not get to have lunch if they have a dr appt in the morning? What kind of f’ed up company do you work for?

I mean, I think most would eat at their desk. Not everyone is a WFH exec who makes 800k a year and can do whatever they want.

Lunch breaks are not the privilege of the WFH set. Office workers get to eat lunch too.

In fact all US workers are entitled to meal breaks.

[Anonymous]

I never have employees take time off (PTO) for a MD appt like that- flex your hours somehow, someway.

If they did, because it was > 2 hours or they couldn’t reasonable make up the time, I would still take a lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who is this debate with? Do people not get to have lunch if they have a dr appt in the morning? What kind of f’ed up company do you work for?

I mean, I think most would eat at their desk. Not everyone is a WFH exec who makes 800k a year and can do whatever they want.

Lunch breaks are not the privilege of the WFH set. Office workers get to eat lunch too.

In fact all US workers are entitled to meal breaks.

Untrue! The FLSA does not require breaks and not every state has established laws requiring them!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you came in late for a an early doctor's appointment (and took PTO for it), would you still take a lunch break to run some errands if things were slow by the time lunch rolled around?

If you took PTO you should take lunch. if I had taken PTO, I’d take lunch, slow or not.

Now in a job that was flex and I did not have to use PTO, no, I would work through lunch.

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If you use leave, that's like working that hour from a compensation standpoint. It's not a break. I'd still take lunch if I used leave for an early morning appointment

[Anonymous]

Yes, otherwise I wouldn’t have taken the time off. I’m gonna work through lunch but I’m not going to take the PTO time.

[Anonymous]

I think having to take PTO for a (presumably not too long) appointment is ridiculous in the first place.

[Anonymous]

Personally, I would have run the errands after the appointment and come in around 9:30 instead of coming in at 8:30 and then leaving again later in the day for another hour.

But, if you took PTO and then came into the office at 8:30, then yes, you are still entitled to lunch and to run errands at lunch.

[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.

Well you should assume staff is going to need to take leave for appointments, sick kids, vacations, etc. and then hire an appropriate amount of employees so that someone having a medical appointment before 8:30 am isn’t going to throw off the work that needs to get done because they take a lunch break.

I don’t understand employers that operate on such a thin margin of labor.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't work in a place where this mattered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't work in a place where this mattered.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't work in a place where this mattered.

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