I love getting a paid lunch. It's a luxury that is very easy to take for granted.
Funny story: at my last job, I was hired, and everyone operated, under the premise that we got a 1-hour paid lunch every day. That allowed people to take the longer break, maybe go out to get a bite, whatever. The CMO then took another job, and we operated pretty autonomously for about 6 months. Things continued. Then a new CMO was hired. Status quo remained. Then suddenly, and I do mean suddenly, as in come in Tuesday morning or something to a lengthy email from the new CMO:
"You do not, in fact, get an hour paid lunch. You all get 30 minutes, unpaid. And if you have been coming in at 9 and leaving at 5, you cannot do that anymore. If you take a 30 minute lunch, you may come in at 9 and leave at 5:30 or you may come in at 8:30 and leave at 5. If you take an hour lunch, come in early and leave late."
So in actuality, the "new" rules were not unheard of at all. Rather standard and fair, in fact. The problem was the suddenness of the change, and with no other precedent. And honestly, for people used to 5 or more years of the same patterns of operation, to have that rug pulled out was kind of disconcerting. To my knowledge, no one had complained or fallen short. Turns out, the new CMO was simply asskissing to the higher higher ups, who couldn't have cared less anyway. We all found out through the grapevine he was trying to get in their good graces by removing liberties.
(Second funny story: this is the CMO who laid me off...who in turn got fired himself 3 months later.)
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