Is it allowed? A lot of times it takes me a long time to get my break and then I never get a second one because I'm too busy. I want both my breaks and I think it would be easier if I just pushed them together.
At my store you could take both at once, just wait 1 minute before clocking out for the 2nd break or it'll say "duplicate ring".
A lot of employees would spend the last hour of their shift on their 2 breaks and 1 lunch. No one said anything, in fact managers encouraged it for busier departments.
you guys have some strict managers! sometimes I will go to 30 min lunch 2 hours after I clock in.. sometimes I leave 30 mins early.. sometimes if it is busy I will take 2 30 min breaks.. I know the front end people get told when they can have a break, but in the back it is the honor system I guess
we get 15 minutes every 4 hour's of shift. and another after 10 hours.
on our front end we'll do our pairs of 15s as 30 because it's easier to manage. service depts in my store generally do a pair of 15s if they're doing 7-9 hours.
that said, the smokers will do three ten minute breaks which I think is self-entitled crap because it's more disruptive to coverage.
in our contract we can get 30 min lunch but it has to be at an agreed time so there's coverage on eschedule (the print out will list the in/out for lunch) and we have to stay 30 min to make up for it since lunch is unpaid. basically no one does that except AAs and dept heads.
Is it allowed? A lot of times it takes me a long time to get my break and then I never get a second one because I'm too busy. I want both my breaks and I think it would be easier if I just pushed them together.
What Dept do you work in. Some departments it would make more sense.
You would have to verify with your t/a clerk, but you probably don't even have to clock back in and the back out between your 2 breaks when you take them together. At least in my division, long breaks don't turn into lunches until they hit 53 minutes.
This is how most contracts are set up(yours may vary):
1 15 minute break.
1 30 minute lunch.
1 15 minute break.
Never miss a break if it is in your contract. Make a way to take both even if separate.
Don't ask us if you can take your breaks back to back. The person you need to ask first is your store manager or second your co managers.
I know I tried to take my second break after 8 hours and kronos locked me out.
Don't skip breaks or the next contract could be written without breaks!
The law requires a break, so that's unlikely.
Only for minors and the disabled in my state.
Oh ****, for some reason I thought that it was a federal requirement to have a break every 4 or 5 hours. Apparently the federal government is living back in 1890.
Is it allowed? A lot of times it takes me a long time to get my break and then I never get a second one because I'm too busy. I want both my breaks and I think it would be easier if I just pushed them together.
As a courtesy clerk I've always felt the 15-minute deal was total bull****.
Especially if I spend two minutes of that walking to the break room.
I usually give myself about five extra minutes to ensure that I not only get to the break room, but, if I have purchased anything to drink (eating is usually out of the question unless you are a fast eater or want nothing but chips...), that I have the time to purchase it along my way to the break.
This is how most contracts are set up(yours may vary):
1 15 minute break.
1 30 minute lunch.
1 15 minute break.
Never miss a break if it is in your contract. Make a way to take both even if separate.
Don't ask us if you can take your breaks back to back. The person you need to ask first is your store manager or second your co managers.
I know I tried to take my second break after 8 hours and kronos locked me out.
Don't skip breaks or the next contract could be written without breaks!
The law requires a break, so that's unlikely.
That varies from state to state. Some states you're guaranteed breaks and lunches. Others only guarantee lunches. Then there are a few that don't guarantee anything.
As you can tell, it varies widely depending on the store and how management handles them. I take one 30-minute paid superbreak every day and eat lunch during that time.
-- Edited by Pizza1029 on Friday 2nd of May 2014 10:51:35 PM
I have problems getting my break too because I work with some of the nastiest people who hate taking their breaks. We'll be dead and they'll be doing nothing but chatting with each other but if you try to go on your own break (if you came in after them) they'll huff and say something like "I didn't even get my break yet and I came in at 7 am and I've been here for hours" even if you just asked them when they're going on their break and they responded "i don't know." Well I'm sorry you didn't take your break when we had 0 people in line for half an hour but that's not my fault.
I generally take my break anyway but I know they're grumbling about me behind my back when I do. I get really tired after around 3 hours and I need to sit down.
...that I have the time to purchase it along my way to the break.
Caution:
Don't shop or make purchases while on the clock. Security will catch you and you will be fired.
Depends on where you are. A lot of us here don't have to clock out for breaks/lunch. Haha, here at my store, management seeing you carry items to purchase is a norm, and they're often correct in assuming that you're about to go on break.
Check your local policies in your individual stores. ;D
Depends on where you are. A lot of us here don't have to clock out for breaks/lunch. Haha, here at my store, management seeing you carry items to purchase is a norm, and they're often correct in assuming that you're about to go on break.
Check your local policies in your individual stores. ;D
Don't shop or make purchases while on the clock. Security will catch you and you will be fired.
Yeah I try to caution my cashiers and baggers NOT to do this. It can be seen as stealing time.
One of our cashiers once warned me when I was about to buy a printer cartridge about five minutes before my shift was to end at 11 p.m.
She said she had gotten talked to by our supervisor -- and all she had purchased was a coke. A ****ing soft drink.
Kroger sucks.
Now if I ever have to buy anything -- note I use the word 'have to' -- I pay in cash and don't even bother using the Kroger card.
So far the only times I have bought while on the clock have been when I have bought a drink after coming off of the lot or about to go onto it.
I don't get paid any extra as a courtesy clerk to go out there and lose five pounds of sweat and push most of my upper and lower body for $7.25 an hour.
