Team Leader here. I’ve skipped every fifteen for the last 2.5 years and I sit down for lunches but always do paperwork or computer work and nobody in upper leadership gives a crap. It’s almost encouraged. “Work Life Balance” is a complete sham.
Much more flexible in my state. There's one TM who helps with ad on Sundays; she takes her lunch really early and then takes her break later. I think she goes to a nearby McDonald's on her lunch to pick up food, then zaps what's left in the microwave and eats it on her break.
I typically take my lunch at about 5 1/2 because the break room is less full and quieter. For a while, the HR ETL was getting after everyone over the walkie about taking lunches well before 5 hours in, practically yelling at TMs to leave the floor immediately. Must have been a lot of non-compliance going on.
