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[–] 77 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Boycott Krispy Kreme, get healthy.

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  • [–] 73 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    https://www.ufcw.org/start-a-union/

    Just bringing it up might get the breaks back. But fighting for better working conditions is always the right choice

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  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    in Germany it is required by law that you have a 30 minute break if you work for 6 or more hours, and that is federal minimum. Turbo-capitalism ruins a society

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    South Australia it depends on the Award (like a default contract for a particular kind of work, it sets minimum conditions)

    But at a bare minimum, if you're working at a shift of 4 hours or more, you're required to be given a 15 minute paid tea break.

    If you're working 5 hours or more, Add a 30 minute unpaid lunch/dinner break.(*minimum, 1 hour max if scheduled - max as otherwise it's really just split shifts)

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    [–] 43 points 1 year ago*

    I assume they mean an unpaid 30 minute break but if they live on technicalities you can too

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  • [+] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [–] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    First eye roll was at ‘Krew’

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    What's the problem with the Krispy Kreme Krew?

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago

    Better check your state laws. Paid breaks plus unpaid lunch are legally required depending on the state

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    'effectively immediately'. Fuckers can't even use correct words.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Honestly, never trust a company replacing C's with K's, especially if it contains alliteration. They will shy away from adding the 3rd K too publicly, but they know what it means.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago

    wE cAN't FiNd GOod HeLp!

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I feel this.

    At my last job (automotive manufacturing: production) we got a total of an hour of break over the course of our 12hr shifts.

    You know what really pissed off the managers? When they found out we were rotating through breaks all day long.
    Hahaha. Fuckers.

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  • [+] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you get your job done following safety rules etc. why should number of breaks matter? So yeah.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Management: if they hit the numbers while taking extra breaks, that means we could raise the numbers higher and not have to pay them more?

    Also management: We need more temps, our turnover rate is terrible! No one wants to work anymore...

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  • I love the circles these standard systems make. My last job would increase pay every now and then because of poor attrition rates. Then they'd increase the standard to match the increase, gaslight anybody who'd complain and then be shocked when the attrition doesn't change and now the old workers are pissed off.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I get two 10 min breaks in a 10 hr shift

    Fuck America.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    When your only option is getting fucked over, and you need to play it safe, destroy them one inch at a time.

    Be asymmetrical. Be guerilla. Every single day.

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    Well coincidentally I’ll need to take a 15 minute shit around the time when my 15 minute break used to be.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    I think its time to kwit.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If this is to be believed, does it make an employee a "Krispy Kreme Krew?"

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Gotta pay for those executive bonuses somehow...

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I would interpret this to mean that your 15 minute break is now a 30 minute break.

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    [+] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
    [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is the kind of fucking bullshit that happens when a company goes public. It is no longer about product and productivity; it is about value extraction. The first place it is extracted from is the labor force.

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't really understand what's being implied here. Isn't 30 > 15?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My guess is they probably previously had 1 or 2 15-minute paid breaks, and a 30-minute unpaid lunch break. But now they only get the unpaid break.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Unionize every workplace

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    For feedback, I would just print off the federal labor codes for my country, highlighting specific sections. I'd just hand it to the management verbatim. I wouldn't cherry pick or leave anything out, just emphasize specific passages.

    Guess what? That's illegal here.

    It would be a thinly veiled threat that I'll ruin their lives if they don't back track immediately... All said without uttering a single syllable.

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