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Breaks should only be the time you’re allowed to sit down and actually *be* on break

This is a small complaint, but your break shouldn’t have to include the time it takes to walk to the break room. I previously worked at a midwest grocery/superstore chain as a cashier, and the clock was at the front of the store, where the checkout lanes were. But the break room was in the far back of the building, taking over a minute to just walk back there, and I walk fast! By the time you get to your locker and sit down, you’ve got at best 11 minutes before you need to put your stuff away and walk back up to the front of the store. I realize it’s a small time loss, but it meant you were always stressing about getting back from break fast enough, and you couldn’t actually just rest. It’s nearly a third of your total break time just walking to the break room!…


This is a small complaint, but your break shouldn’t have to include the time it takes to walk to the break room. I previously worked at a midwest grocery/superstore chain as a cashier, and the clock was at the front of the store, where the checkout lanes were. But the break room was in the far back of the building, taking over a minute to just walk back there, and I walk fast! By the time you get to your locker and sit down, you’ve got at best 11 minutes before you need to put your stuff away and walk back up to the front of the store.

I realize it’s a small time loss, but it meant you were always stressing about getting back from break fast enough, and you couldn’t actually just rest. It’s nearly a third of your total break time just walking to the break room! Heaven forbid you want to grab a lunch and sit outside, back and forth twice just so that you could sit outside on your lunch break.

Place I’m currently working had the clock in the break room, so that as soon as you go on break, you can sit down. None of this minute+ of travel time bs. And if there’s some time loss of people on the clock walking from the break room to where they need to be in the store, the company can absorb that loss

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