Thread regarding Sam's Club layoffs

The only people I know who take many breaks are the tire guys.

Our management teams and front end MSS' have no backbone to hold anyone accountable for their actions.

I'd be better if I actually got the 2 krap breaks a day that is required by Federal law, but I'm understaffed and have much to do and since I can't stop to talk to my fellow man without eyes from the ranger starring me down, I'd say I average one break and an lunch every shift. That's 15 minutes of my compensation that I just do not get every day I work.

This is true because there someone at my store in AZ’ The morning COS lets one person comes in at 8 o’clock in the morning Only works 5 1/2 hrs and they let her takes 2 breaks sometimes 3 and she don’t get no lunch and then when someone else asked to do the same thing they tell us no these 2 cos favoritisms her all the time always give in and let’s her do what ever she what’s. when people ask if they need more breaks she can because of Covid or she has a headache but why can’t others? I don’t understand that. It’s call Favoritisms!!!

Maybe you should do your own work instead of watching everyone else

Maybe wearing these mask that deplete our co2 . Or MIND Ur MF BUSINESS

I'm of two thoughts on this. Is it time theft? I can argue yes. On the flip side, companies find every little way to screw their employees so why not screw them back when you can.

This has been going on since I started working there 23 years ago, but I can say it has gotten worst the last past 4or5 years. So I started taking an extra 5 mins. here and there didn't feel guilty at all there were many years where I never took my second break at all because I didn't want to leave the dept. a mess boy was I dumb!!

Who cares if they’re taking longer breaks. For one have you ever wonder, if they doing a two man job. By the way what are you doing, probably nothing.

Taking long breaks/lunches is not time theft. That is a productivity issue. Time theft is doing a time adjustment saying you worked from 7-5, when you only worked 7-3.

I used to take my Exact 15 minute breaks when I started, but then the management started to jew me out and treat me like trash, like making me stay extra long, asking me work related questions on my breaks and lunches, so then I started to take 20-25 minute breaks so that I could get back the time that this sh– company stole from me.

Protip: always start your break from the moment you sit down and end them from the moment you stand up. If some mongoloid supervisor comes to harass you, make sure that stop the break, then resume it once they leave, so that you get your entire 15 minutes.

READ THE LAW - Management can't control restroom breaks. Before or after breaks.

Restrictions on Restroom Use
Employers may not impose unreasonable restrictions on restroom use, and employees should not take an excessive amount of time during bathroom breaks.

A worker's need to access the restroom can depend on several factors, including fluid intake, air temperature, medical conditions and medications. Some common conditions that require frequent restroom use include pregnancy, urinary tract infections, constipation, abdominal pain, diverticulitis and hemorrhoids.

Because restroom access frequency can vary greatly from person to person, no federal standard for the permitted number of restroom breaks or a specific restroom usage schedule exists.

Look, I'm going to the restroom before I go on break. That's it. You don't like it, too bad.

It is not time theft; it's more like leveling the playground between management and associates. You would be surprised how much free time Management has on their hands. Many come in late and leave early and laugh all the way to the bank. Policies for break time are there just to have something formal in place. How departments manage productivity and 'break' culture vary. Let it go or join them. YOu will feel much better for it. You don't get paid enough to worry about that stuff.

Sometimes you just need 5 or 10 minutes more. That could be the difference between someone staying or just walking out and giving up

Cant speak for everyone else but how I see it is this... when the store is falling apart and managers are in the office on their phones watching YouTube videos, you dam right I’m going to take a long break. At our club, they have lost complete control of their associates. The standards have been so poor for the past years that now it will be impossible to fix it.

Who deputized you the official time cop anyway. MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!

Taking an extra 5 minutes really doesn’t bother me. Before I transferred departments I had a coworker who would take half hour breaks and 45 minute lunches. Management knew about and did nothing about it. He was part of the reason I decided to transfer because I was tired of picking up his slack because even when he was “working” he got barely anything done.