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• Novaski1

  GADZOOKS! And what is the unemployment rate???

• Punkiedory

  a bag check takes as long as management makes it take.  if a manager wants to finish counting down a drawer before checking your bag…but makes you clock out–you can be waiting around for a long time.

  but hey, way to support retail workers rights with this excellent article, guys.  really.

• Anonymous

  Yes, checking a bag may take a minute, but waiting on a line to get them checked can take quite a bit longer–I don’t work there, but have had to wait on some very long bag-check lines at various events. And, you know, many people out there have to pick up kids from babysitters, schools, etc. or pay overtime charges. And how would you feel about either not getting to take lunch or losing your job? Even if it was a sucky job? 

• Anonymous

  Wow what an insensitive article. If you’re waiting for a bag check the manager might have to help a long line of customers (as is often the case at many Forever 21 stores) before letting you leave. You have to clock out at the end of your shift on the dot but then obligatorily stay and wait. If this is during closing shift the manager might even decide on a wardrobe change or to use the bathroom. And if there’s more than one employee you have to wait for everyone to grab their things out of lockers, etc. I used to work at Sephora and this same thing happened. There’s also a lawsuit underway for Sephora for this very same reason. If you’re being held inside the store, you need to get paid. Period.

  During closing shifts when I was in college I sometimes missed my bus to go home and would then have to wait an hour for the next one since I went to school in a small town. So no, a bag check DOES NOT take “about a minute” Julia.

• KathyK

  I’m with you Julia.  I’ve worked at places where bags were checked an it never made me late for anything.  The point of a bag check is that you are on the way out of the store.  If you get your bag checked and then go clock out and walk through the store with you bag it defeats the purpose of the bag check.  As far as missed lunches and breaks go, if you’re clocked in and work through your lunch you are getting paid for the time.  Breaks that you do not clock out for are usually at management’s discretion and state laws vary.  Unempoyment is very high and I would love to be working right now, anywhere.

• David

  High unemployment is not an excuse to cheat workers out of wages that they deserve. Even a couple of minutes unpaid work does add up over time-especially if it’s over years.

• Anonymous

  Oh jeez, so now it’s okay to roll back the labor laws because people should be so grateful to have a job that they should happily not get lunch hours or be forced to stay at work without pay? Really? 

• Ambreezyy21

  I was a current employee at forever 21. I worked there for almost 2 years. There is nothing fair about how they treat their employees. The managers had me wait almost 20 minutes to recieve a bag check. After tht it has always been a 10 minute wait. Forever 21 tries to get away with everythig. I worked a 12 hr shift one time . I only took. Two 15 minute breaks and one 30 min break . They made me clock out at 11:59 so they wouldnt have to pay me overtime then made me clock back in at 12:01 because its considered a New day. I went to work at 4pm and didnt get out till 4am and I had class tht morning n I was a full time student in college.