I teach. At my school, we all (teachers and students) have exactly 25 minutes for lunch. I noticed today in the cafeteria that students who buy lunch and wait in very long, very slow moving lines, for the ones in the back they might wind up with about ten minutes to scarf down their vittles.
Surprisingly however, though the students complain about a lot of things, they seem pretty resilient to the very limited meal time allotment.
So how much time do you get or typically use for lunch each day?
And this thread isn’t limited to those in the public school system, I’m just curious as to how much time you have designated for your lunch break.
46 minutes. It’s a crappy retail job, paid hourly, and according to state law, we’re supposed to get 45 minutes. But because of the timeclock and the people are idiots factor, in practice, we get 46 minutes. My biggest complaint is not the amount of time, but the timing–if my shift starts at 7:30 am, I’d like to have lunch around noon but all too often must wait until after 1pm.
I get exactly an hour, to the minute. If I take any longer than that I am assigned points and when I reach 75 points I am basically going to be fired (assuming there were no extenuating circumstances, of course.) At first this kind of annoyed me but the rest of my job is pretty awesome so I don’t have a problem with the punctuality rule.
Half-hour. Technically my employees get a half-hour and I can take an hour as a salaried employee, but I almost never do. We work in a hospital, and it’s hard to get a whole hour without someone needing you for something.
Oh, two or three hours. Plus, I eat whenever I feel like it. It just depends on what I want to do. Of course, I’m retired…unless the market tanks even more; then I’ll be asking if you’d like fries with that. Till then though, too bad for all you working people.
Supposed to be an hour, but it depends on what docket I’m handling. If I have nothing scheduled in the afternoon and I’m having a good time at lunch with friend(s), it could stretch to almost two hours and no one would mind or care. I try not to abuse the privilege, though.
It varies on when I’m done with morning court. Some days I get back at 11:30 and can have lunch for two hours. Some days I get back at 1:00 and barely have a half-hour to snarf something down before I have to go back. Most days I get back between 11:00 and noon, though, so I can generally get a nice long lunch.
I get an hour, which I don’t care for, actually. It takes most of an hour to get through traffic, order and eat a meal, and get back through traffic. I’d rather bring my lunch to work, and take a 15-20 minute break in which to eat, then get back to work. But I don’t get paid to work through lunch, and it wouldn’t permit me to leave early at the end of the day, anyway, so on the days I bring my lunch I have this long, wasteful break in the middle of my day.
It’s flexible. I usually take about an hour, because I like to get out of the building and get some fresh air. But nobody would care if I took two hours, as long as the work gets done.
Same here. 25 minutes by contract; 18 minutes in reality, if I want to take a bathroom break and a breath before the afternoon starts. On non-work days, it’s all I can do not to wolf my food down.
My husband gets an hour and works 8 minutes from our house, so he comes home for lunch every day. Makes some soup and a sandwich, reads the paper, hits the bathroom, relaxes–he actually gets AWAY from his job for an hour. During the summer when I’m off, we love having lunch at home together. If it’s really hot, we might even jump in the pool for a dip before he goes back.
Technically 30 minutes ( paid ) w/ two 15 minute breaks ( also paid ), taken whenever the workload allows. But in actuality it is more or less whenever, however and for however long I like. I work alone two nights a week, with one other person the other three, see my supervisor maybe 1-3 hours a week and we have bountiful amounts of downtime ( a good chunk of my job is “wait and watch” ). It’s never an issue, really, especially as we have a kitchen with a stove, a microwave and fridge shared by just seven people. It’s actually a little bit like being a fireman.
