Now that I'm a cashier, I've found that about a quarter of the time a manager doesn't notice that I haven't had a break until my shift's almost over anyway (in that case what's the point?). It's considered bad form to actually ask a manager if you can have a break (I got snarked at by A last week for asking 5 hours into an 8 hour shift, a customer actually told her to send me on break), but if they aren't paying attention... SM's policy is that cashiers are to be on register for no more than four hours without some sort of break.
I realize that the cashier breaks are staggered so we don't have the whole front end out at once, but today I was scheduled from 12-4, wound up staying til 7:30; FEM didn't let me go on break until 5 and I had to convince her that I was supposed to take 30 minutes as SM had me on the clock for 7.5 hours total. Had I been scheduled until 4 I'm doubting I would have gotten a break at all as A didn't seem to know or care that I was scheduled late. This has happened twice so far (tends to be when A is on the front end).
In theory if a manager drops the ball and someone doesn't get a break at all we're supposed to be able to clock out early with no penalty (just let an upper-level store manager know what you're doing and why). In practice that's not really possible (crazy rushes, plus there's never a manager with the override card where and when you need them).
Eh, just a random rant. Me being used to taking breaks on some sort of schedule it's odd to have to make sure managers know.
I realize that the cashier breaks are staggered so we don't have the whole front end out at once, but today I was scheduled from 12-4, wound up staying til 7:30; FEM didn't let me go on break until 5 and I had to convince her that I was supposed to take 30 minutes as SM had me on the clock for 7.5 hours total. Had I been scheduled until 4 I'm doubting I would have gotten a break at all as A didn't seem to know or care that I was scheduled late. This has happened twice so far (tends to be when A is on the front end).
In theory if a manager drops the ball and someone doesn't get a break at all we're supposed to be able to clock out early with no penalty (just let an upper-level store manager know what you're doing and why). In practice that's not really possible (crazy rushes, plus there's never a manager with the override card where and when you need them).
Eh, just a random rant. Me being used to taking breaks on some sort of schedule it's odd to have to make sure managers know.
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