I am going back to work

[Lazy Gardener]

This is the case of: management getting you out of there ASAP to protect their butt from their concerns about a possible whistle blower incidence. IMO, count your blessing. Also so very interesting: Why would they be so very short staffed that they would deny your lunch break, yet... they have someone in the wings who can step right in????? Good riddance. Send a PM: I'm interested to know what corporate comapany name was providing staff for this building, and what was their local/national customer satisfaction response?

 

[Britesea]

They may not be short of staff, they just don't like the idea of someone being paid "to do nothing." DH ran into this mentality when he was a bus mechanic. He never got a lunch because there was always something that HAD to be done before his shift was done, so they could make pull-out in the morning. He resorted to scarfing down a can of sardines while in the bathroom, or he would have never gotten anything to eat. They actually were very short handed, so much so that he regularly was told he couldn't have vacation because they didn't have enough staff to cover his absence, but this was intentional... the General Manager didn't believe in having any more maintenance crew than the bare minimum.
The person that got called in may have not even gotten a full 8 hours off from their last shift before being pulled in to do your shift.

 

[flowerbug]

We us bassackward all the time here in Northeastern Wisconsin, lol. I have been saying it since I was a kid. Well, It may be regional because I remember my friends in college all got a kick out of it too.

it's been known to me my whole life too so i can't recall who i first heard it from. was raised in the mid-west around here.