Guest guest Posted August 23, 2001 Report Share Posted August 23, 2001 Sorry - I've just got to let off steam. The senior partner at work is - quite frankly a bully and has an awful management style. Recently he has bullied a male colleague which included deliberately leaving him off the new company web site. Today he had a go at me and a colleague for taking 10 minutes out for eating our lunchtime sandwich before attending a compulsory education meeting that is held over lunchtime. His argument is that we should eat during the meantime - not take extra time for lunch. Our lunch break is normally 45 minutes. Now perhaps I'm being churlish - but I feel I'm entitled to a lunchbreak. I suppose if I had respect for the guy and goodwill for him - then I would be willing to forego one lunchbreak every two weeks - but at the moment I don't. I was so cross that I told my boss that I wasn't going to agree to do it (my boss is another partner). I said that I'd also had enough of the way this guy was behaving - and then walked out of the office. As I've mentioned before, I am hoping to quit the job anyway, but, another colleague in my department has just quit (the one I mentioned above who's details were left off the web site) - and so it would make it very difficult for my boss if I quit too, so I thought I would keep going to help him out - until they managed to recruit someone else. My boss is a really nice guy, and I don't want to make life difficult for him - but I am rapidly running out of any goodwill. Perhaps I should just count to ten and take some deep breaths. Debbie Slater Perth, WA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 23, 2001 Report Share Posted August 23, 2001 Deb Poor you - how horrid. Yes you are entitled to a lunchbreak - when I worked F/T I was always working through lunch for whatever reason. I found the best way was to actually leave my desk with my sarnie and go and sit somewhere else (preferably outside, but I was known to use an empty meeting room on occasion to hide in too). That way - you are just " not there " to take any stick (for all they know you could be in the loo). It certainly doesn't encourage you to stay on does it? But at least they know how you feel now and the ball is in their court, so to speak. Eat your lunch and boo stucks to them, that's what I say. Todman Treasurer, Stansted Branch (R5) Mum to , 3½ > > Today he had a go at me and a colleague for taking 10 minutes out for eating > our lunchtime sandwich before attending a compulsory education meeting that > is held over lunchtime. His argument is that we should eat during the > meantime - not take extra time for lunch. Our lunch break is normally 45 > minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 23, 2001 Report Share Posted August 23, 2001 Deb Poor you - how horrid. Yes you are entitled to a lunchbreak - when I worked F/T I was always working through lunch for whatever reason. I found the best way was to actually leave my desk with my sarnie and go and sit somewhere else (preferably outside, but I was known to use an empty meeting room on occasion to hide in too). That way - you are just " not there " to take any stick (for all they know you could be in the loo). It certainly doesn't encourage you to stay on does it? But at least they know how you feel now and the ball is in their court, so to speak. Eat your lunch and boo stucks to them, that's what I say. Todman Treasurer, Stansted Branch (R5) Mum to , 3½ > > Today he had a go at me and a colleague for taking 10 minutes out for eating > our lunchtime sandwich before attending a compulsory education meeting that > is held over lunchtime. His argument is that we should eat during the > meantime - not take extra time for lunch. Our lunch break is normally 45 > minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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