3w ago

They are so dumb they want to piss everyone off for a lousy 15 minutes

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Boycott Krispy Kreme, get healthy.
- The donut shops around me are so much better anyway, so even if you don't want to get healthy, there's probably better options.
  
  Dedicated doughnut places are insanely expensive here, but Kroger of all places has some quite good cake doughnuts. Their yeast ones suck, though.
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
- Reclaim your workplace from the owners!
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
- 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)
- This is similar in California. Tho to clarify, this is a 30 minute break that is unpaid.
- ruins a society
  Good thing we don't have one of those.
- Is that not what’s happening here? 5 or more hours you get a 30 minute break
- The breaks worked similarly when I worked hourly shifts in the US:
  <= 6 hrs: 1x 15m paid break
  6 hrs: 1x 30m unpaid lunch, 2x 15m paid breaks
  It was most common to be scheduled for 6 hr shifts so the company could avoid paying for the extra break.
I assume they mean an unpaid 30 minute break but if they live on technicalities you can too
First eye roll was at ‘Krew’
- What's the problem with the Krispy Kreme Krew?
  
  "you see the uniforms are needed to keep everything klean, the pointy hat makes splashes run off rather than collect on the top!"
  
  That's too long. We should change it to.... wait...
  
  Krunk Korporate Krispy Kreme Krew
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.
- hey hey
- Krispy Kreme actually got in trouble for this once, because a UK based location went rogue and implemented a rewards program called the "Krispy Kreme Klub".
'effectively immediately'. Fuckers can't even use correct words.
- When does it go into effect?
  "Pretty much right now, basically?"
Better check your state laws. Paid breaks plus unpaid lunch are legally required depending on the state
wE cAN't FiNd GOod HeLp!
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.
- Did you make your numbers? Then mgmt can fuck right off
  
  If you get your job done following safety rules etc. why should number of breaks matter? So yeah.
I get two 10 min breaks in a 10 hr shift
Fuck America.
- 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.
  
  Sleep in the cooler. After you huff all the nitrous from the whip cream.
- I think this is actually illegal in most states
  https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/meal-breaks
  
  Legal in my fucking bullshit state. Fucking fuck fuck fuck America.
  
  Only illegal if anyone will actually do anything to protect the workers. Otherwise it's just lip service
I think its time to kwit.
Well coincidentally I’ll need to take a 15 minute shit around the time when my 15 minute break used to be.
- the boss makes a dollar, I make a dime.
  that's why I shit on company time
  
  It's not company time if it's unpaid.
If this is to be believed, does it make an employee a "Krispy Kreme Krew?"
- Yes, but please abbreviate to save toner.
  
  Glazed power?
  
  "Dear mngt, the kkk wants privileges again"
Gotta pay for those executive bonuses somehow...
I would interpret this to mean that your 15 minute break is now a 30 minute break.
- Standard fare is you get two 15-minute breaks and one 30 minute break. I'm guessing you now only get one 30 minute break which seems like it should be illegal but I'm assuming this is the US, so whatever.
- wait..is that not whats happening? i am confused.
  
  The 15 minute break is paid, the 30 is unpaid. They used to get both, but now its down to the 1 break and its unpaid. Pretty shitty.
Krispy Kreme Krew... that explains a lot.
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.
- I'm sure any time a policy like this is enacted, it will not increase productivity over the whole shift.
Unionize every workplace
I don't really understand what's being implied here. Isn't 30 > 15?
- 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.
  
  Bingo. Lots of states have an optional set of 15 minute breaks that are in my state often referred to as smoking breaks because the Midwest is still in large part stuck in 1910.
- The 15 minute breaks were paid.
  Now they are only getting the mandatory 30 minute paid break for lunch (which they only have to do if you work over 5 hours in a shift).
  They still get the legally mandated 15 minute breaks; they just aren't paid for it.
  
  You get mandatory 30 min paid breaks? For me it's unpaid lol.
  Scheduled for 5 hours, no 30 minutes necessary.
  Scheduled for 5.5 hours, you get 30 minute unpaid break so you are there for longer but make the same amount of money
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.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk gutted the National Labor Relations Board and (illegally) fired people, including those that were conducting 24 active investigations into Musk's companies. Shit like this is the result of those fascist actions. Boycott Krispy Kreme!
- Boycott Krispy Kreme!
  easy to do, it's garbage anyway!
Take it anyway

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