No 4 o' clock Break 🕓

We had our first 2nd shift foreman.

Before, our foreman was 1st shift until about 4:00 pm. Then we were on our own.

Since I first started, I was told there was a break at 4 pm and 2nd shift went on that break with 1st shift.

So we were carrying on the same way every day.

Until the new foreman got educated on the breaks. There was no break for 2nd shift at 4 pm.

 

One day...

a new associate came on board. The new guy and the foreman were in the office. The new guy had to watch training videos.

4 o clock rolled around, the foreman runs out of the office trying to catch all the 2nd shift workers, trying to stop everyone from taking a break. 

That was challenging, because everyone went different places for break. It was funny to see the foreman running around. This man was running like there was an emergency, like life or death situation.

I usually stay near my work cell for the 10 minute break. I watched the whole thing take place, and figured out what the foreman was up to.

The next day, we got scolded in our shift meeting, in front of everyone. 

There was a sign for break times, but nothing about breaks when there's overtime. It was 1 extra break for 10 hours. 4 o' clock would be for 10 hours, not every day.

It made sense to me to take break with everyone, because we were left without a worker in the cell. 1st shift workers were a part of the team. 

Second shift had to wait until 6 o clock for the first break. 🕕

From that day forward the foreman tried to get everyone to sit together in the lunchroom. Why, to control us. So he didn't have to run around looking for us.