Boss continually schedules mandatory meetings during unpaid lunch break: 'I don’t want to get marked as difficult, but I’m burnt out'

When you have one lunch break, you probably want to use it. Especially if it's unpaid. 

Break time is incredibly important. You need little moments throughout the day when you're stepping away from your duties and giving your mind a rest. You can't do the same task all day. You need to spice it up and make sure you're getting the necessary time away from your work. For most of us who work office jobs, this means a lunch break. Lunch breaks are essential. They not only give us time to refuel before getting back to our tasks, but they let our brains take a needed, necessary rest from the stuff we spend all day doing. It makes us better at our jobs. A Forbes survey reported, "Nearly half of survey respondents (48%) said they skip lunch at least once a week. While 29% of workers block off time on their calendars for lunch, 62% say they can't actually use it for a meal. Gen Z was found to be most likely to skip meals at work, with 70% skipping lunch once a week." There is obviously something going on here, and it probably isn't that they don't want to be taking lunch; it's that there's outside pressure to keep working even when you should be resting. We put such a premium on working hard that we can forget to take care of ourselves. That's what was happening to this worker, and he had someone to blame for it: his boss.