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Firing an employee for taking an unpaid 30-minute lunch break, while simultaneously demanding they work while eating at their desk, violates federal labor laws. If an employee is required to continue working or remain on duty while eating, the owner must compensate them for that time. An unpaid 30-minute... (or longer) meal break requires the employee to be completely relieved of all job duties. They cannot be required to answer calls, work at their desk, or monitor emails. If the boss dictates that the employee must sit at their desk and continue working, that is considered "on-duty" time. This means the employee must be paid for that 30-minute period. Has a company ever played games with you ? How did you respond ?show more

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Let’s get your opinion on this: would you push back like she did? Here’s the situation. Her boss sent her home for taking her 30-min unpaid lunch that was literally in her contract/hiring notes. While no federal law requires lunch breaks, some states require employers to provide one (30 min unpaid, fully off-duty) for 6+ hr shifts. You can’t just force ‘eat at your desk while working’—that doesn’t count. Now, if her contract is indeed legally binding, the boss can’t magically delete it. What are your thoughts on this?

Let’s get your opinion on this: would you push back like she did? Here’s the situation. Her boss sent her home for taking her 30-min unpaid lunch that was literally in her contract/hiring notes. While no federal law requires lunch breaks, some states require employers to provide one (30 min unpaid, fully off-duty) for 6+ hr shifts. You can’t just force ‘eat at your desk while working’—that doesn’t count. Now, if her contract is indeed legally binding, the boss can’t magically delete it. What are your thoughts on this?

DocumentingLibs

200,492 views • 4 months ago

A man who works at a store goes on his lunch break and sits in the employee break room. He pulls out a burger, takes a few bites, and then starts recording himself on his phone while taking a couple of whiskey shots. He seems relaxed and even laughs while filming the moment, as if he plans to post it online. The surprising part is that he is still on his break at work and will likely return to his shift afterward. Situations like this raise concerns about workplace responsibility and professionalism. Even during breaks, actions that could affect performance, safety, or the company’s image can become a proble, especially when the employee is recording and potentially sharing it publicly. It’s a reminder that what we do at work, even on break, can have consequences. Do you think it’s acceptable for an employee to drink alcohol during a lunch break if they are still on company property and planning to return to work?

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Dr. CZ

110,873 views • 6 months ago

You will never be able to convince me that going to an office, by 9am (or you’re late), to sit at a shared desk, looking out a window at another builder right next to you, is something I will ever want to do. I woke up this morning, made fresh coffee in my Chemex, worked for three hours, now I’m taking a 30 minute break. This is the break.

You will never be able to convince me that going to an office, by 9am (or you’re late), to sit at a shared desk, looking out a window at another builder right next to you, is something I will ever want to do. I woke up this morning, made fresh coffee in my Chemex, worked for three hours, now I’m taking a 30 minute break. This is the break.

Morgan

360,098 views • 1 month ago

Peter Thiel: Why will the 20th employee join your company? When deciding whether or not to invest in a founder, Thiel asks: “Why will the 20th talented person join your company when they can get paid way more at Google, they will have to work way less hard at Google, and it will look better on their resume to go to Google?” The 20th employee won’t get the equity or prestige that someone on the founding team will get, so there needs to be another incentive if you’re going to build a truly great company and attract the best people in the world. Thiel believes the best answer is something along the lines of: “This is the only place in the world where you can work on this incredibly important problem.” He continues: “It has to—on some dimension—be a really important problem that at least some people think is the most important problem in the world. Those are the kind of businesses that are unique, and when they work, they end up being leaders in their respective markets.” If it’s a problem that a bunch of other teams are working on, it will be hard to attract a truly world-class employee #20. Source: Pando

Peter Thiel: Why will the 20th employee join your company? When deciding whether or not to invest in a founder, Thiel asks: “Why will the 20th talented person join your company when they can get paid way more at Google, they will have to work way less hard at Google, and it will look better on their resume to go to Google?” The 20th employee won’t get the equity or prestige that someone on the founding team will get, so there needs to be another incentive if you’re going to build a truly great company and attract the best people in the world. Thiel believes the best answer is something along the lines of: “This is the only place in the world where you can work on this incredibly important problem.” He continues: “It has to—on some dimension—be a really important problem that at least some people think is the most important problem in the world. Those are the kind of businesses that are unique, and when they work, they end up being leaders in their respective markets.” If it’s a problem that a bunch of other teams are working on, it will be hard to attract a truly world-class employee #20. Source: Pando

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40,425 views • 2 years ago

An employee was inside addressing an issue with another customer when these customers at the window decide that they’ve waited too long. They open the service window and try to get their attention. The employee comes up and tells them he will get to the when he can. Was the customer being rude by demanding service or should the employee have been nicer about it and explained what was going on before he could help them?

An employee was inside addressing an issue with another customer when these customers at the window decide that they’ve waited too long. They open the service window and try to get their attention. The employee comes up and tells them he will get to the when he can. Was the customer being rude by demanding service or should the employee have been nicer about it and explained what was going on before he could help them?

SonnyBoy🇺🇸

41,047 views • 7 months ago

William on how an early stage employee takes way more risk than a founder: "If I'm making $400-500K at Google or Meta and go to an early stage company to get 1% of this company and make $90,000. I've now changed the trajectory of my life, that's a lot of risk. But as a founder, you're not. It's a much higher likelihood that of the next round, regardless of your company, you'll be able to sell some secondary. If it shuts down, you can get employed at a great company, and you have a CEO on your resume. That first employee, they have first employee at a failed company. That's actually not a great resume line item. So we've de-risked the founder, but we haven't de-risked the early stage employee."

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William on how an early stage employee takes way more risk than a founder: "If I'm making $400-500K at Google or Meta and go to an early stage company to get 1% of this company and make $90,000. I've now changed the trajectory of my life, that's a lot of risk. But as a founder, you're not. It's a much higher likelihood that of the next round, regardless of your company, you'll be able to sell some secondary. If it shuts down, you can get employed at a great company, and you have a CEO on your resume. That first employee, they have first employee at a failed company. That's actually not a great resume line item. So we've de-risked the founder, but we haven't de-risked the early stage employee."

Patrick OShaughnessy

904,878 views • 5 months ago

This could get ugly. 👀 The rule is set to take effect on March 11. New rule where companies will get rid of 1099 workers ( I believe he means 1099)... they must be listed on payroll as an employee. Ex: independent delivery ppl who aren't employed by the company but drive for them, they get an 1099 instead of being hired as an employee. When he says Wow... he means WOW! Article for reference:

This could get ugly. 👀 The rule is set to take effect on March 11. New rule where companies will get rid of 1099 workers ( I believe he means 1099)... they must be listed on payroll as an employee. Ex: independent delivery ppl who aren't employed by the company but drive for them, they get an 1099 instead of being hired as an employee. When he says Wow... he means WOW! Article for reference:

Stacy

1,537,628 views • 2 years ago

Peter Thiel on the question he asks every startup founder he invests in “Why will the 20th talented person join your company when they can get paid way more at Google, they will have to work way less hard at Google, and it will look better on their resume to go to Google?” The 20th employee won’t get the equity or prestige that someone on the founding team will get, so there needs to be another incentive if you’re going to build a truly great company and attract the best people in the world. Thiel believes the best answer is something along the lines of: “This is the only place in the world where you can work on this incredibly important problem.” He continues: “It has to—on some dimension—be a really important problem that at least some people think is the most important problem in the world. Those are the kind of businesses that are unique, and when they work, they end up being leaders in their respective markets.” If it’s a problem that a bunch of other team are working on, it will be hard to attract a truly world-class employee #20.

Peter Thiel on the question he asks every startup founder he invests in “Why will the 20th talented person join your company when they can get paid way more at Google, they will have to work way less hard at Google, and it will look better on their resume to go to Google?” The 20th employee won’t get the equity or prestige that someone on the founding team will get, so there needs to be another incentive if you’re going to build a truly great company and attract the best people in the world. Thiel believes the best answer is something along the lines of: “This is the only place in the world where you can work on this incredibly important problem.” He continues: “It has to—on some dimension—be a really important problem that at least some people think is the most important problem in the world. Those are the kind of businesses that are unique, and when they work, they end up being leaders in their respective markets.” If it’s a problem that a bunch of other team are working on, it will be hard to attract a truly world-class employee #20.

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20,862,770 views • 1 year ago

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Swan AI founder Amos Bar-Joseph breaks down why ARR per employee is replacing traditional valuation metrics in an AI-native world. "Optimizing for valuation deviates you from the right path and makes you optimize for investors rather than building the right company." "The right metric to optimize for in an AI-native world is ARR per employee. If companies focus on that specific metric, they become much more valuable than trying to optimize valuation directly." "Optimizing for ARR per employee forces the business to create leverage continuously. That is how you scale efficiently."

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13,767 views • 7 days ago

Video shows United Airlines staff threatening to kick a deaf woman off of a flight for offending an off-duty employee. A United Airlines first class passenger and his hearing impaired wife were booted from their flight after a conflict with an off duty crewmember. Video from the cabin shows the man in his seat, upset but controlled, explaining that the employee snapped at his wife because she "didn't hear" and "wasn't listening." He says he tried to explain the disability; the employee got ruder rather than apologizing, and then they sat down.

Video shows United Airlines staff threatening to kick a deaf woman off of a flight for offending an off-duty employee. A United Airlines first class passenger and his hearing impaired wife were booted from their flight after a conflict with an off duty crewmember. Video from the cabin shows the man in his seat, upset but controlled, explaining that the employee snapped at his wife because she "didn't hear" and "wasn't listening." He says he tried to explain the disability; the employee got ruder rather than apologizing, and then they sat down.

Justa Dude

1,329,601 views • 4 months ago

What is wrong with people? Watch this: A Jack-in-the-Box employee gets in an argument about forgetting a customer's curly fries and then shot at their vehicle with a pregnant woman and young child inside. Apparently the employee, Alonniea Fantasia Ford forgot the customer's fries. The employee can then be seen throwing condiment packages at the car. The customer then throws food back. At this point the employee thinks that the actions seen in this video were warranted. A civil suit is now underway claiming that 'Jack-in-the-Box was negligent for not keeping customers safe'. What has the world come to?

What is wrong with people? Watch this: A Jack-in-the-Box employee gets in an argument about forgetting a customer's curly fries and then shot at their vehicle with a pregnant woman and young child inside. Apparently the employee, Alonniea Fantasia Ford forgot the customer's fries. The employee can then be seen throwing condiment packages at the car. The customer then throws food back. At this point the employee thinks that the actions seen in this video were warranted. A civil suit is now underway claiming that 'Jack-in-the-Box was negligent for not keeping customers safe'. What has the world come to?

Brian Krassenstein

23,578,596 views • 3 years ago

LISTEN UP American Taxpayers 🚨 Former Federal Worker gives an inside look at Federal Workers “When I was hired, my boss bragged that it was basically impossible to get fired from the federal government.And that in her entire time working for the government, she'd only seen one person fired” “When I worked for the government, we were allowed to work 50% in the office and 50% from home, for the most part. In some cases, if you'd worked there, like, I think over 10 years or something, you could actually work from home three days a week and work from the office two days a week” “One employee spent his time remote working, running his own farm.” “Another employee bragged about drunk driving and going out to lunch with her friends for margaritas when she was supposed to be remote working. No one would log into their computers and you can see it because they're not on Teams and no one ever checked. Ever.” “There's something called the 80-20 rule where 80% of the work in government is done by 20% of the people and this is very, very true” “People who get a job in the government a lot of times find out that it's very difficult to fire them and they take advantage of this.” “Another employee would take the government truck on an almost daily basis so that he could go out to lunch and then go and take a nap in his favorite park under a shady tree in the government truck.” “Our government is filled with the most incompetent and most lazy people and an occasional hard worker. And those hard workers are severely punished every time they outwork their colleagues. Because then the colleagues realize people will see that they're lazy and they don't want to have to work more. They're just buying time until they retire in almost every case.”

LISTEN UP American Taxpayers 🚨 Former Federal Worker gives an inside look at Federal Workers “When I was hired, my boss bragged that it was basically impossible to get fired from the federal government.And that in her entire time working for the government, she'd only seen one person fired” “When I worked for the government, we were allowed to work 50% in the office and 50% from home, for the most part. In some cases, if you'd worked there, like, I think over 10 years or something, you could actually work from home three days a week and work from the office two days a week” “One employee spent his time remote working, running his own farm.” “Another employee bragged about drunk driving and going out to lunch with her friends for margaritas when she was supposed to be remote working. No one would log into their computers and you can see it because they're not on Teams and no one ever checked. Ever.” “There's something called the 80-20 rule where 80% of the work in government is done by 20% of the people and this is very, very true” “People who get a job in the government a lot of times find out that it's very difficult to fire them and they take advantage of this.” “Another employee would take the government truck on an almost daily basis so that he could go out to lunch and then go and take a nap in his favorite park under a shady tree in the government truck.” “Our government is filled with the most incompetent and most lazy people and an occasional hard worker. And those hard workers are severely punished every time they outwork their colleagues. Because then the colleagues realize people will see that they're lazy and they don't want to have to work more. They're just buying time until they retire in almost every case.”

Wall Street Apes

3,100,923 views • 1 year ago

Macy’s needs to be called out for this behavior by their employee and manager! This girls mother asked the employee a question about an item and when she did she was called undocumented & said that were trying to steal & couldn’t speak English! WTF is wrong with these people! 😡

Macy’s needs to be called out for this behavior by their employee and manager! This girls mother asked the employee a question about an item and when she did she was called undocumented & said that were trying to steal & couldn’t speak English! WTF is wrong with these people! 😡

Suzie rizzio

373,139 views • 1 year ago

This HR lady had an employee complain that her 3% raise wasn’t enough and that she needed more money. Instead of just shutting her down, she went out of her way to find a position that paid $7 more an hour. When she told the employee about it, the first thing she asked was if it involved working weekends. Once she found out it was every other Saturday for four hours, she immediately said no — even though it was still a 40-hour week and a big pay increase. So… do you think she’s tripping or is it the employee? I think it’s the employee.

This HR lady had an employee complain that her 3% raise wasn’t enough and that she needed more money. Instead of just shutting her down, she went out of her way to find a position that paid $7 more an hour. When she told the employee about it, the first thing she asked was if it involved working weekends. Once she found out it was every other Saturday for four hours, she immediately said no — even though it was still a 40-hour week and a big pay increase. So… do you think she’s tripping or is it the employee? I think it’s the employee.

End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸

447,177 views • 2 months ago