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Why don’t you just move your break to be wholly before or after; or tell them you won’t be at the meeting?

Laughs in people constantly scheduling meetings ontop of my already flagged as Out Of Office lunch

People don't even check FREE / BUSY where I work... If it fit's their schedule, fuck you. I work 7:30A - 4:00P and people constantly schedule me for 4:00, 4:30, 5:00 meetings. I'll put up with some at 4:00, I'll just come in 30 minutes late that day as I have to be on the 8:00A status call (which is border on useless).

My SO is supposed to get a 60 minute lunch (30 paid/30 unpaid).

He has 2 supervisors. One constantly schedules meetings at 12 and the other at 1. Neither ever checks if it's convenient, they just put it on his calendar. And neither ever checks if that means he won't get his lunch break. He's constantly taking 20 minutes here and 20 minutes there and having to come back early. I don't think he gets his full 60 minute break more than once a week.

? Why doesn’t he just block out an hour in his schedule everyday.. mark it something like “lunch”.

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I have a 30 min lunch that I schedule so that people don't schedule me during my lunch break.

They aren't allowed to block out their lunch because they need to be flexible. Plus they have both scheduled him for things when he was already scheduled for something else by the other supervisor. No care is given.

But he likes the job and bosses otherwise so he doesn't want to make it a thing.

✔️ Decline

And in the same vein, leave the hour free on other people's calendars if you're trying to book a meeting. The calendar respect goes both ways.

Then he should jokingly bring it up in the meeting that is scheduled second. Also, power move says bring lunch into the noon meeting and just eat while others are not.

Cuz fuck 'em, that's why.

I’m big on, email me first and then we can decide if this needs a meeting and I’ll share my availability. I have meetings auto reject if they try to schedule during times that are already blocked.

Yeah, I work 7-3 (often 7-2:30 with shorter lunch)

I do almost categorically just not attend any after 3 - manager is fine with it so all good on that front.

Always make sure to claim the time back though - need to be flexible to a degree and get the same flex back

I tend to cave and shuffle my lunch for the mid day ones sometimes to the point where it ends up essentially nonexistent, which is a bit shit - need to push back more strongly on these sometimes

I would do this!

I do odd hours a couple of days a week. I make a point of adding a permanent "Out of Office" block of time in the afternoon on those days.

You always know who doesn't bother checking the free/busy, by the people who send you a meeting request for these times.

Outlook/Exchange has an option for your calendar to "Always decline meeting requests which overlap with others". It annoys me that you can only apply this to the whole calendar and not specfic meetings.

>I make a point of adding a permanent "Out of Office" block of time in the afternoon on those days.

Yeah, I have 3-5pm (our standard hours are 9-5) and a 1 hour slot for lunch in the middle of the day set as OoO every day.

>Outlook/Exchange has an option for your calendar to "Always decline meeting requests which overlap with others".

Wasn't aware of this, but yeah would only really be useful if I could set it for specific meetings as often the meetings getting out ontop of others outrank the first meeting - so wouldn't work too well as a blanked rule for me.

I can 100% see him doing that.

You get an award for this expert response.

Classic Dave Chappelle, baby!