Messed up Break Policy - Anonymous employee Menards Employee Review

4.0
26 Aug 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay Plenty of hours $3.00 premium pay on weekends Plenty of over-time available

Cons

Often short staffed Ridiculous lunch policy, you have to be scheduled to work 8 hrs to get an unpaid half hour lunch break. If you are scheduled for 8 hrs and if you don't take a lunch break you will get written up. But if you are scheduled for 8 hrs and take a lunch break, then technically since it was unpaid you only worked 7.5 hrs, and you will also be written up, because you can only take a lunch break if you work 8 paid hours. So it's a catch-22, and is just plain STUPID!!!

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