Does anyone else feel like 30 minute breaks aren't long enough?

[Anonymous]

I don't even go out to get food or coffee because who knows how long that takes. 30 minutes go by so quickly. I don't even like the idea of taking breaks but if I had to, I'd want to break out for an hour or at least 45 minutes.

[SteveSmith1985]

Yes. You... are objectively right. 30 minutes breaks are not long enough.

Unfortunately, you are not seen as "a person" to those who ultimately decide the length of your breaks. You are there to make as much money for them as possible. There are 8 hours in a work-day. The more of that 8 hours you spend working, the more money you make for the people you work for.

The people you work for cannot get-around the practical reality that workers DO need to eat, pee, etc. (or the work you perform WILL start to suffer).

Therefore, you get 30 minute breaks.

Are they enough? Fuck no. Not for anybody.

How long do you think those who DECIDED that you need no more than 30 minutes... take for THEIR breaks? 🙂

[Asker]

Good point.

[NewsReader]

You mean like a lunch break at work? Yeah. I need 40 or 45 minutes to eat a decent meal comfortably. If I eat too fast then I get stomach pain. I get two 30-minute breaks. I would be willing to be at work an extra 30 minutes if I could extend each break by 15 minutes.

[FunkyMonkee]

We were SUPPOSED to take two 15:00 breaks and at least a half, if not full hour, for lunch but, I never took my 15:00 breaks because, as soon as I stopped what I was doing, my energy level would go crashing through the floor and, when I got back to what I was doing, I'd have to build it back up again!! The only reason I broke for lunch was because I was hungry!!

[Anonymous]

I worked a job for the past 23 that didn't give breaks. So I kind of laugh at this question.

[Asker]

Right, I'd rather not go on breaks at all. If you're worried about labor, don't hire so many people!

[Opinion Owner]

I don't think that was it. The job was a very unsupervised job. You had a workload that was expected to get done. You had 8 hrs. To get it done and they didn't care (within reason) what you did if the job got done. But the workload was always about 9 or 10 hrs. Worth of work. And there were definitely peak hrs. of work. So you could theoretically take as many or as long of a break as you wanted. But there was never enough time to take a break and still get the work done.

[Asker]

Sounds more like contract work

[exitseven]

I usually do not takes breaks. I have an hour for lunch.

[art84]

30 minutes doesn't sound like a lot. Should be an hour break.

[PeteBy]

Too long in my opinion but I have a physical job. After five minutes of sitting down I want to fall asleep. Best just keep going.

[Dinosaursandanime65]

Weekends in a nutshell. Two days sure does go by quick. AAHO

[Nash62826]

Absoluteky its iver oretty fast.

[FckY0u998]

because they're not