ThxOne
Premium Member
Staff Member
This is the LAST time I will attempt to help you understand."If you are working on that lunch you are working off the clock. It is not rocket science, not a Trump conspiracy... It's just breaking the law."
"There are reasons for these laws and none of your spins or fast talking would fool a judge or prosecuting attorney."
-Thxone
These are your words, your singular views that YOU posted, and there really aren't any "multiple meanings" that could be claimed of them.
It is very clear that you think working during a lunch hour is working "off the clock", which is "breaking the law".
Working "off the clock" is "the work employees perform outside of their working hours and for which they are not compensated." Skipping a 30-consecutive -minutes lunch but taking three ten-minute breaks is not "working off the clock", no matter how much you FEEL it should be. So you're already wrong on that point, but we'll continue:
The second part of what you say there is also very clear. It states *I* am "breaking the law", since *I* would be the one "working off the clock".
In another post, you tack on that none of my "spins or fast talking would fool a judge or prosecuting attorney". This indicates you think *I* would be in court, defending myself in front of a judge or prosecuting attorney. There is no other reason those people would hear my "spins or fast talking", except for ME being prosecuted. In court. For breaking your "law".
So, it is fully established that *I* would be the one breaking the law AND that *I* would be the one going to court for doing so. These are YOUR claims. Clear as crystal.
Given those claims: What is the legal punishment I could face if my defense is a failure and I get convicted of breaking this law you believe exists?
I'm not asking for an employer-meted punishment, but a LEGAL punishment from the JUDGE.
What is it?
This is a simplified example. Let's say you work for McDonalds. In reality you are the employee, they are the employer. You are BOTH McDonalds. You as an employee represent McDonalds and anything you do can have consequences for Mcdonalds. This includes violating labor laws. It does not matter what the reason is or was you cannot work off the clock.
Part of the problem you are having is YOU think it is not violating labor laws because you are rearranging the minutes in which you do it. Labor laws are also clear federally and by state how many and how often workers get breaks and how long those breaks have to be. You are trying to argue something else for your ego.
If your employer is brought to trial and you are called in to testify that you worked off the clock, your fast talk and spins wont help and your employer will still bare the punishments for you working off the clock. If you continue to refuse to understand I am not interested in explaining it a 7th time. I am done.
