If you don’t think people felt pleasure at Trump getting Covid then you and I have very different social media feeds

I’ve worked for a bank as a teller and I’ve seen the amount of people who just cash their employees checks. While it’s not how I’d live my life this little factoid is entirely unsurprising to me

If I want more pay I don’t need some random person Reddit to encourage me to ask for a raise. Or did you not understand when I said I would not benefit because I only work 8 hours a day and advocating for what you think is right for other people to get a foreign concept to you?

I work an 8 hour shift and my boss is laid back. I can go to the bathroom whenever the fuck I want without people counting the time it takes or the amount trips I make. I intermittent fast by choice so I don’t need a lunch break but he has offered to work something out if I ever do need a real break. I personally am fine, but that doesn’t mean that I think everybody should have to do things the way I do them.

This is technically true but it is required to have ID for many things in the US. Personally I’m surprised any adult in the US can get by without a photo ID. It’s not something you need everyday but I just don’t get how you can go through life without one.

Edit: a word

I’m not salary but I actually only work 8 hours a day. I don’t personally benefit from what I’m talking about.

I did confuse right to work with at will employee but tbh since you’re now casting aspersions at me let send one back.

You sound like the type of person who thinks paychecks are favor from employers and not something owed to employees. You want the deck stacked for the “job creators” and would be an awful person to work for.

That was just an example and MA is a right to work state. People think Mass is super liberal and in a lot of ways we are but our employment laws are far from the most liberal/progressive in the country. It’s why this topics is being discussed like this instead of the other way around, as in: Why are we even forced to pay for lunch breaks?

It still doesn’t matter. I have MS asking me too specifically, and god forbid denying me, could be ADA violation.

If an employer doesn’t like it they can offer a fair salary and save themselves the headache. MA is still a right to work state so if your unhappy with their performance because they’re taking it too easy fire their ass. Although most employees like this are probably not coming back from breaks on time anyway so it’s 6 of one, half dozen of the other there.

Why does the employer need to know?

They don’t. All that matters is that they’re back on time.

Then the lunch break should be long enough to actually leave and come back. Not everybody has an office. Not everybody goes to the same job site everyday.

Again opportunity cost: if I can’t leave (I, personally, include practicality and not just technically) then I need to be paid.

Contractors who bill by the hour can charge for getting stuck on a job site even if they’re in “hurry up and wait” mode and therefore not generating any work.

If your goal is to payout the same net then why bother making the distinction of what you’re being paid for?

It should not be the same net, even if you get a slightly lower rate to compensate. I laid out why you should get paid for these breaks but wtf is the point if you effectively make the same? Even worse all of your overtime would be at the lower rate. That sounds like a shit deal to me.

I dunno there’s a practicality issue here. I live 1.3 miles from my job and last week I ripped my pants during my shift. Now my job is fairly laid back so I was able to leave, change and come back. I did nothing else. It took me 20+ minutes. 1.3 miles by car is about as short as a trip/commute gets.

Being technically allowed to leave but for extremely short periods of time is not practical. You are effectively stuck at work and should be compensated for that.

Opportunity cost. If I can’t leave work and come back then I’m stuck at work, whether working or not. If I’m stuck at work I should be paid.

It’s funny you think needing an ID is considered no big deal. In the US a lot of our lefties hate that. Mostly because of what happens in rural areas where public transportation sucks more than usual and places to get ID’s get shutdown or moved by people who’s interests include gerrymandering and bigotry