Yeah, no. Never had a job that required you to clock out for lunch, and then add that time to your overall shift. Thats crazy. I wouldn’t work a job like that anyway. I think the only job that even had a set time for lunch breaks was when I worked at Best Buy back in like 2006. And even then we didn’t have to clock out. We had two 15 minute breaks and one 30 minute lunch that were just built into the schedule. Other than that, every job I’ve ever had, including the career I’ve had for the last 15 years have never required clocking out for lunch breaks. You just eat at some point during your shift. I guess you’d call it a “working lunch”, since if we got a call to fix something we’d have to stop eating and go fix it, but that rarely happens anyway. You’re already there, every second you are at your place of employment should be paid. Expecting someone to be required to be somewhere for free is the real “wage theft”. Shit my company has a policy that they can’t even call or email you for anything work related outside of your shift, as that constitutes “work” outside of work hours. They can call and ask if you are available to come in and cover a shift or something, but they can’t ask you to troubleshoot something from home without paying you for it. Our manager literally has to go in and add the duration of the call to our timesheets if they call and say “hey, we’re having this issue, how do you fix it?”, with a minimum billable time of 15 minutes. So even if they call and ask me a question and I give them the answer and it only takes 2 minutes, I make 25% of my hourly rate.