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Get bent, Brenda (slrpnk.net)
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[–] chaitae3@lemmy.world 26 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

If that had happened in Germany, Brenda would have provably committed an administrative offence and should stop unless they want to go to jail:

§ 4 Rest breaks

Work shall be interrupted by predetermined rest breaks of at least 30 minutes for working hours of more than six to nine hours and 45 minutes for working hours of more than nine hours in total. The rest breaks referred to in sentence 1 may be divided into periods of at least 15 minutes each. Employees may not be employed for more than six consecutive hours without a rest break.

§ 22 Penalty provisions

(1) An employer commits an administrative offence if they intentionally or negligently

  1. contrary to § 4, do not grant rest breaks, do not grant them for the prescribed minimum duration or do not grant them in a timely manner

(2) In the cases referred to in paragraph 1, nos. 1 to 7, 9 and 10, the administrative offence may be punished with a fine of up to thirty thousand euros [...].

§ 23 Penal provisions

(1) Any person who commits one of the acts specified in Section 22(1) Nos. 1 to 3, 5 to 7

  1. intentionally and thereby endangers the health or working capacity of an employee, or
  2. persistently repeats, shall be punished with imprisonment for up to one year or a fine.
[–] GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 8 points 3 hours ago

Also she didn't laminate her email so it's not valid anyway

[–] Ranulph@thelemmy.club 6 points 2 hours ago

We need to make Brenda famous...like Astronomer Cold Play Famous

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 20 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

If people didn't redact the names, and instead shame those idiots and companies, maybe they would think twice next time

[–] rogsson@piefed.social 11 points 4 hours ago

Lmao eat a bag o’ dicks Brenda 

[–] brezel@piefed.social 52 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

corporate speak is revolting.

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Let's correct this behaviour :-)

it sounds like an evil nursery worker

[–] enix@reddthat.com 1 points 3 hours ago

Correct bad behavior is all Jack Torrance was trying to do.

[–] 33550336@lemmy.world 47 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I suppose this shit is from u$ or another such savage country. In Europe the company would pay a huge penalty for putting pressure to limit the break time.

[–] DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz 26 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Even in Latin American countries where protections are weaker, this would be considered wildly unacceptable. Only Americans would do this

[–] durably465@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 hours ago

Living the American dream I guess.

Everybody want to come here! Yeah for sure /s

[–] Jela@lemmy.today 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

This email reminds me of the literal month that I lasted at the Costco world headquarters..... Never again 🫩

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 points 4 minutes ago

Spill the tea!

Costco has a huge reputation of being really worker friendly. There are fb groups of people providing tips and tricks on how to improve their chances at working at Costco, like they were trying to get into Harvard.

So this is fascinating

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 hours ago

Brenda must have a real hardon for the recruitment process...

[–] caboose2006@lemmy.world 61 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

This can't real

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It can real.

[–] JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 1 points 14 minutes ago

Woah.

[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 30 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

If it is, I think it's illegal in the US at least. By law I think employers are required to give at least one 30 minute break a day.

[–] bridgeburner@lemmy.world 20 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Employees have rights in the US?

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Some of us do, and our employers hate it and try to keep us from knowing/using those rights

[–] Bababasti@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

That’s what unions are for ultimately. Educate you about your rights and help enforce them. But uuhhh no that’s dirty communism so forget about them.

[–] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 21 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Only in some states. There is no federal law mandating breaks or meals.

[–] cdf12345@lemmy.zip 15 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

This is why I don’t goto Buc-ees when traveling. They only operate in states with little to no worker protection and they do not allow their employees to have any breaks. Yes they pay a few dollars more per hour but absolute abuse their employees. So as nice as their mega gas stations are , they will never get another dollar from me.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

It’s like a Walmart, Cracker Barrel, and a Sheetz had some unholy abomination of a child. I went exactly once to see what gives everyone such a hard-on, and couldn’t get out fast enough.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The buc-ee's simping is so weird to me. It's just a gas station with a gift shop. Like, I get it, it's got nice bathrooms, nobody is disagreeing, but so many road trips with big groups somebody wants to go there and spend like 30 minutes shopping. I hate it.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Quite surprising that it's based on state law, rather than something that's mandated by the US Federal government. Employers being able to forbid their employees from having lunch unless their particular state, or medical requirements force their hand does not seem like a legal thing.

It does track, since the US was also one of the few countries that does not consider food to be a mandatory right (their official justification here), but still.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 11 points 7 hours ago

I don't find it surprising at all.

The whole idea of breaks during the work day came from early-day capitalists (check out Factory Act and how it came to be. And for those who don't want to/can't - it wasn't from the goodness of their hearts, they noticed that their workers were making too many costly mistakes, like getting themselves rolled into heavy machinery and dying, so they asked doctors to "figure this shit out". The Factory Act is the earliest iteration of what eventually became OSHA), some of whom showed at least a semblance of honour, and following the actual tenets of capitalism (giving back to the community).

It became the "everybody knows this" kind of thing.

Then times have changed. Today's capitalists are a bunch of babies with way too much power, who don't know how they came to be, or why the "gentleman rules" that were in place happened. All they see is that if someone takes a 30 minute break, they're not working for 30 minuts (making shareholders cry! :( ).

The federal government didn't need to mandate this, because "everybody did this anyway", and if one state was having issues, it mandated that on their own.

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 27 points 7 hours ago

Brenda is going to need new tires soon

[–] glance@lemmy.world 47 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Sure thing, Brenda! I'll be sure to invite my work family to lunch with me for the full allotted time so no one feels unsupported! Thank you for the idea!

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 4 points 4 hours ago

Ah I see you’re implementing some out of the box productivity boosting by altering the mindset goals and quarterly observation deadlines.

(Brenda is the new Karen?)

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 30 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

The fact that you guys only have 30 minutes to eat is insane! We have 1:30 hours by law and It's barely enough time to go down, get something and eat. Even if you eat fast food (which we don't like) you won't be able to go there, buy, eat and be back in 30. You need a revolution!

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Ehh I'm satisfied with 30 minutes to heat up or otherwise prepare my lunch. I'd want a sofa to sleep on if my break was any longer than that.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 34 points 8 hours ago (7 children)

Yeah well we can't all be French. I'm not saying it's a good thing, but 30 minutes is standard even in Europe.

[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

In my decades of work in the UK (from nightshift shelf stacker to software architect) I've never not had one hour.

[–] draco_aeneus@mander.xyz 22 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

30 is common, but I wouldn't say standard. An hour a day feels standard.

In office work, you usually get it all in one chunk, whereas if you work physically demanding or shift-based work, you get 15 minutes coffee break, then at lunch 30 minutes, then another 15 minutes later. This is true at least for all the western European countries.

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[–] antimidas@sopuli.xyz 6 points 7 hours ago

At least in Finland the 30 minutes is meant to be 30 minutes sitting down and eating your food. If your place of work has a shared cafeteria people are meant to eat lunch in, getting from your desk to the cafeteria and back, and queueing for your food aren't meant to be part of the lunch break. Only the part you actually spend eating and thus properly on a break.

It's a bit of a spirit of the law thing, though the law is quite exact on the matter. Good luck trying to find an employer outside desk jobs who actually abide by it, though, as factory jobs are scheduled around 20 or 30 minute breaks and if you're not back at your line by then, production halts. Luckily that fact is typically compensated in the pay.

I'd assume other European countries with 30 minute lunch have a similar clause.

[–] spechter@feddit.org 6 points 7 hours ago

All I want to add here is that I fell completeley in love with france over just two weeks working at a customer's site there.

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[–] Flipper@feddit.org 11 points 7 hours ago

Man fuck that. If you bring something from home half an hour is perfectly fine. I can't imagine having to just wait an otherhour around so that I can finish my 8 hours. I want spent my time at home and not on break at work.

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[–] jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org 54 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

We had an HR person complaining to us that a group of us would leave the office every day and go out together to eat lunch.

Didn't complain that we spent too long eating. Just that we went out together for lunch every day....

[–] Kacarott@aussie.zone 22 points 8 hours ago

Sounds like someone was jealous

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Same but it was a liquid lunch tbf

[–] finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 297 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (30 children)

Hi Brenda,

I wanted to reach out regarding a small observation I made in your last email. In telling me how to spend 30 minute meal break and encouraging me to cut it short for the company's benefit, you violated US labor law.

Let's correct this behavior and try to be more mindful of that "our company is not above the law" spirit so we can keep your momentum going in the right direction. :-)

Eric

P. S. I will be retaining this communication in case this remains an issue. Thanks :-)

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[–] bss03@infosec.pub 23 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

So, if you get the lawyers involved, things could go very bad. BUT, I'll bet if you let enough labor lawyers read this, at least one of them will take the case under terms that you might want to accept.

IANAL, TINLA, but I agree with the other posters that this could be a violation of federal regulations. (But, there's a lot of details I cannot glean from the posting that could affect legality.)

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 17 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'd expect there needs to be actual damages first. So you have to say no and then get fired, and then you have a case.

Though if it's heading that way, a lawyer may want to help you prep to seal the case as it's being made.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 23 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Hello, Brenda. I have noticed that your mouth is often filled with strange looking hairs, possibly from all the rimming you give the boss. Let's correct this behavior for the family

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