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Take your obligated 30 min breaks or make sure you’re getting paid for the time you work through them.

I work at a restaurant where every time you clock out a manager has to join you and swipe their card for “break rule violation.” Meaning they have to legally input a thirty minute break in your hours even though you didn't take one. After a while I was thinking about this and realized I've never clocked out for a thirty minute break during my shift because no manager has ever asked if I wanted/needed one after the 5 hour mark unless I'm working a double. This makes a little more sense for the servers as they can't exactly leave their tables randomly for thirty minutes but as I'm just starting out on the host stand I started becoming really annoyed by this as I'm not making any money from tips and my hourly rate is just above minimum. So now during my 5-7 hour shifts where I work the…


I work at a restaurant where every time you clock out a manager has to join you and swipe their card for “break rule violation.” Meaning they have to legally input a thirty minute break in your hours even though you didn't take one. After a while I was thinking about this and realized I've never clocked out for a thirty minute break during my shift because no manager has ever asked if I wanted/needed one after the 5 hour mark unless I'm working a double. This makes a little more sense for the servers as they can't exactly leave their tables randomly for thirty minutes but as I'm just starting out on the host stand I started becoming really annoyed by this as I'm not making any money from tips and my hourly rate is just above minimum. So now during my 5-7 hour shifts where I work the whole time every time a manager is clocking me out I'm requiring them to add 30 minutes for my time worked. If they have a problem with this I'm just going to start taking my legally required break while we're busy. It's really shady that they let this slide; I started noticing the computer pushes your clock in time by like 7 minutes too, just trash practices imo. This place has customers spending at least $150 each for one dinner and drinks but tries to save money by cutting their employees pay.

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