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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/dulaev_official on 2023-07-06 08:22:46+00:00.

I work at a large company that we like to call Wally-World

Wally-World has a break policy where you are allowed to take an hour long (unpaid) meal break, but it has to at least be 30 minutes. Now a lot of the older people don’t mind taking just 30 minutes, but it’s common rule that minors should follow the hour long meal schedule.

I was told that anytime I was getting a meal break, I could take an hour. I typically only do 45 minutes, but still long enough for me. The thing is, that minors can’t work longer than 30 hours a week be it during a normal school week.

I average 28 hours a week. That’s two 8 hour shifts on the weekend, and three 6 hour shifts during the week days typically. I’m nearing 6 months and have always taken a 45 minute long meal break. Now I’m suddenly being told that if I work 6 hours then I should only be taking a 30 minute meal break.

My department was very insistent on that for anyone working 6 hours. I was confused seeing as all the new hires could take hour long meals during their 6 hours shifts but I suddenly couldn’t?

At the time I didn’t realize this, but if I take only a 30 minute lunch with those shifts then I would be going over the time I was allowed to work. (7+7+5.5+5.5+5.5=30.5)

I started to question it all, and it took a few weeks (of going over 30 hours) to finally ball up and talk to my store’s personal about it. At first she was confused, but after I explained it all and went into the website to show the exact times I had been clocking in and out, she just told me to follow my schedule and I thought that was that.

Of course my department managers weren’t too happy, but they suddenly stopped telling me to take shorter breaks and started asking if I would be willing to take shorter breaks. I didn’t realize that they actually got in trouble until an older coworker overheard the managers talking about scheduling all the breaks when I’m not supposed to take 30 minutes anymore.

TL:DR managers tried telling me to take shorter breaks which put me over the max hours I’m allowed to work in a week as a minor. I asked store manager about not being allowed to take longer breaks, and got my department managers in trouble. I’m not told how long I should take anymore :).