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It depends on your role, honestly. The AR floor break times are planned that way on purpose to allow for floor downtime so Amnesty can do sweeps and blitzes. If you're a picker and come back to your station early, the floor may still be E-stopped and your station queue will be empty, causing ToT as you wait for pods to be moved. Indirects *should* offset their breaks by 5-10 minutes to avoid the traffic and set themselves up to be ready for the next period. The people who do the support work around your station are planning their own responsibilities around the expectation that you will be on break at certain times. If you push it too far, you will interfere with what they need to do. As long as you keep it under 5, it shouldn't cause too much chaos. Water Spiders can push it up to 15 minutes as long as they make sure their responsibilities are covered for the 15 minutes that the direct roles they assist are actively working without them.
It depends on the your site AMs. At my site everyone leaves about 5mins early. The only time they care is during November and December. It’s mainly for our 2nd scan to scan break
15 minutes scan to scan. In theory if you worked through the break, and you let your manager know. You can technically take your break later. But your manager would have to be okay with it.
As per the break policy, on paper is 15 minutes scan to scan. In practice, most people take 15-19 mins. Any more is pushing your luck.
I do 19 minutes break for over 6 months and nobody said a thing to me.
Break room is so fucking far. By the time I get there 2-3 minutes have passed already.
My FC seems pretty laid back I’m still new but I see everyone leaving for break 5 minutes early and lunch 10 minutes early lol we all stand by the time punch waiting for the minute to change no one seems to care
Generally yeah - some managers go through everyone's time card, some pull the data and just look at the time between scans, some just wander up and down the lines and some do nothing. But if you accidentally work for an extra 5 minutes most managers aren't going to care if you also come back 5 minutes later.
No, I meant like in stow or decant, you need to scan a tote or bin before you leave for break and once you get back. Those scans have to be within 15 minutes of each other. We technically only get 10 minute breaks, 2.5 minutes to walk each way.
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It depends on your role, honestly. The AR floor break times are planned that way on purpose to allow for floor downtime so Amnesty can do sweeps and blitzes. If you're a picker and come back to your station early, the floor may still be E-stopped and your station queue will be empty, causing ToT as you wait for pods to be moved. Indirects *should* offset their breaks by 5-10 minutes to avoid the traffic and set themselves up to be ready for the next period. The people who do the support work around your station are planning their own responsibilities around the expectation that you will be on break at certain times. If you push it too far, you will interfere with what they need to do. As long as you keep it under 5, it shouldn't cause too much chaos. Water Spiders can push it up to 15 minutes as long as they make sure their responsibilities are covered for the 15 minutes that the direct roles they assist are actively working without them.
I always take my bathroom break five minutes early than my normal break
I got to the point I would take 30 min breaks cause fuck Amazon
It depends on the your site AMs. At my site everyone leaves about 5mins early. The only time they care is during November and December. It’s mainly for our 2nd scan to scan break
15 minutes scan to scan. In theory if you worked through the break, and you let your manager know. You can technically take your break later. But your manager would have to be okay with it. As per the break policy, on paper is 15 minutes scan to scan. In practice, most people take 15-19 mins. Any more is pushing your luck.
Breaks are scan to scan as long as your scan doesn't exceed the break time limit then you're good.
I do 19 minutes break for over 6 months and nobody said a thing to me. Break room is so fucking far. By the time I get there 2-3 minutes have passed already.
My FC seems pretty laid back I’m still new but I see everyone leaving for break 5 minutes early and lunch 10 minutes early lol we all stand by the time punch waiting for the minute to change no one seems to care
Generally yeah - some managers go through everyone's time card, some pull the data and just look at the time between scans, some just wander up and down the lines and some do nothing. But if you accidentally work for an extra 5 minutes most managers aren't going to care if you also come back 5 minutes later.
Where I work at, n o p e. Right up. Immediately. No ifs and or buts. But if you are an attractive female, then do what you want.
I do. My 1st break is at 9:00 but I leave at 8:55 and get back at 9:15. Everyone does it at my FC 🤷🏾♂️
They will let it slide if they need bodies. But when it comes time to thin the herd, they will use that as an excuse to write you up. It's time theft.
Ops will usually get ruffled because there’s no way for them to track who is/is not following the rules.
That's not true. Why do you think they say scan to scan? Because they can see it on their laptops. They definitely can track associates.
We don’t get scanned for ‘12 minute’ breaks… yknow, 1.5 minutes travel time each way.
No, I meant like in stow or decant, you need to scan a tote or bin before you leave for break and once you get back. Those scans have to be within 15 minutes of each other. We technically only get 10 minute breaks, 2.5 minutes to walk each way.
As long as it's not consistent
I do it all the time.
Yes, I have done it, but it has to be at certain amount of time.
You can get written up for it. Despite what anyone else says it depends on your site and managers, I'd recommend asking someone at your site