Working 9 hours. What breaks should you get?

RomanNose said:
This is by biggest fear about employment, 5 hours from 12-5 seems impossible to work continually.
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Dont worry nobody works solid fo 5 hours, just go for a wonder or hide like i do in a cupboard or upstairs and play games on your phone.

Gotta get own back (by burning your place of work to the ground)
 
Mickie said:
i have no breaks, as i want to get the work done..

would you rather your employer send you home for weeks at a time on full pay?
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Yes, absolutely.

how much of a break do you want?
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Ideally, all of the time.

I work because I need money. I'd prefer not to have to work at all.

When I do 6.5 hour shifts, I get 15 minutes or nothing, depending on workload at the time.

When I do 11.5 hour shifts, I get 1 hour plus a second break of 15 minutes or nothing, depending on workload.

That'll do, but yes I would prefer to be paid for not working.
 
Angilion said:
Yes, absolutely.



Ideally, all of the time.

I work because I need money. I'd prefer not to have to work at all.

When I do 6.5 hour shifts, I get 15 minutes or nothing, depending on workload at the time.

When I do 11.5 hour shifts, I get 1 hour plus a second break of 15 minutes or nothing, depending on workload.

That'll do, but yes I would prefer to be paid for not working.
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Alternatively find a job you enjoy. Since getting my latest job I actually look forward to going in to work and would almost do it even if I wasn't being paid...:eek:
 
You don't say what you do but if it's anything like warehouse work then I feel for you. **** work, **** conditions, **** pay... Hated it when I did it, even worse than cleaning the sweat of gym machines tbh..
 
MissChief said:
Which is illegal. Even if it is through personal choice you are still entitled and your work can do nothing about it if they try to impose this.
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Differnt curcimstances.

Plus I have watched an entire season of The Office, and have had quite a few smokes. So who am I to complain! :)
 
I was told by an ex-employer that my break was 5 minutes for every hour I worked, legally speaking.

I haven't confirmed this...
 
I work a 6 hour shift, get a 20 minute break.

At a 9-5 job sitting at an office I would HAVE to get up and go for a wander for a couple of minutes every hour. My body would hate me otherwise.
 
LeJosh said:
I was told by an ex-employer that my break was 5 minutes for every hour I worked, legally speaking.

I haven't confirmed this...
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nope, 20 minutes for 6 hours.
I get half an hour unpaid on a 12 hour shift. Work in engineering. That's how it is. An idle machine costs money. I think its a running cost of nigh on £100 per hour here.
 
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