Debt Dumpers 2025

[StitchesGr8Fan]

Some days, we will just run through a drive through or even just make lunch here, eat real quick and then go back to work. Some days we will go eat together as a group and are there maybe 90 minutes. That's mostly on Mondays because it happens right after an office sales meeting. Or it happens on Fridays because it's Fridays. We can't adjust our hours based on lunch. We have to be here at 8 every day. Now some days we might leave at 3 or 4 or even earlier (if the day before a holiday like we typically leave around 1 p.m. on Good Friday, stuff like that).

So it’s not required. It’s an office norm that you participate in. An employer can not force you to eat at restaurants on your own dime like that in the US.

 

[barkley]

I only take 30 min for lunch because I'd rather work 730 to 4 when most everyone else is 7 to 4. If we go to lunch I only account for my normal 30 min, I wouldn't be out for lunch if it wasn't a work lunch.

I don't think anyone opted for more than a 30 minute lunch break at my former job though they had the choice of 30 or 60. by the time I retired we had our choice on working hours of-

within the hours of 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. Monday through Friday / choice of 30 or 60 minute unpaid lunch break-

traditional scheduale (8 hrs/m-f)
4/10 (m-th or t-f 10 hrs per day)
9/80 (80 hours in a two week period with either every other Monday or every other Friday off). this was the most popular b/c if you picked the Friday that fell before the legal Monday holidays you got allot of 4 day weekends OR if you picked the Mondays that fell on the legal holidays you still got those days off BUT you earned 8 hours of paid time off that did not fall under use it or lose it.