One of my favorite sayings at work is You don't have to thank me. You have to pay me.
Being told "thanks for your help" at work triggers me.One of my favorite sayings at work is You don't have to thank me. You have to pay me.
Mine is currently, "that's why you pay me the medium bucks."One of my favorite sayings at work is You don't have to thank me. You have to pay me.
One time, we were asked to participate in a "team building exercise".Being told "thanks for your help" at work triggers me.
100% free labor, good on y'inz.One time, we were asked to participate in a "team building exercise".
Which was painting the lab and office.
On a Saturday. Ok, call it what you want but my idea of team building is an escape room, paintball- lab vs accounting. Even falling backwards and hoping the 102lb customer service lady is strong enough to catch me. Coming in on my day off and painting for free is not really team building to me. Sounds like free labor.
None of us participated.
I would have laughed at the very ideaOne time, we were asked to participate in a "team building exercise".
Which was painting the lab and office.
On a Saturday. Ok, call it what you want but my idea of team building is an escape room, paintball- lab vs accounting. Even falling backwards and hoping the 102lb customer service lady is strong enough to catch me. Coming in on my day off and painting for free is not really team building to me. Sounds like free labor.
None of us participated.
Shoulda participated and done a horrible job.One time, we were asked to participate in a "team building exercise".
Which was painting the lab and office.
On a Saturday. Ok, call it what you want but my idea of team building is an escape room, paintball- lab vs accounting. Even falling backwards and hoping the 102lb customer service lady is strong enough to catch me. Coming in on my day off and painting for free is not really team building to me. Sounds like free labor.
None of us participated.
Ah I wanted to find the toxic masculinity post. Anyway. I got bitched at for being 8 minutes late, said I havent been paid in a month. The owners wife cut 4 checks and warned me not to deposit them all at once. Meh it's time to find somewhere else for that time slot.Toxic masculinity is not eating alone and doing nothing about stolen wages because "what will folk think?".
Uh do you get paid for all the hours you work?Ah I wanted to find the toxic masculinity post. Anyway. I got bitched at for being 8 minutes late, said I havent been paid in a month. The owners wife cut 4 checks and warned me not to deposit them all at once. Meh it's time to find somewhere else for that time slot.
if you woke up to discover that the windows of your car were busted overnight, you'd probably be checking inside to see what, if anything, got stolen, and you've brought up before that you have dealt with actual theft of your property on multiple occasions so this isn't a new concept to you, so I don't understand why you'd be nonchalant about further potential theft, ESPECIALLY in the presence of known fuckery. wage theft is theft.
I don't disagree but I am too busy working to track my actual hours, tipped vs non tipped income, dot hours vs non dot hours. It is practically a full time job tracking my payroll. So short of hiring a secretary... Shrugeven then cutting you checks late can be viewed as theft because time spent not in your account because of their actions is time you cannot be accruing interest on it (though in your case, I'd expect it would be a neglible amount of potential interest). it's obviously also fucked because people rely on wages to pay bills to stay alive, but late wages are still theft.
Well the DOL has it's own enforcement division which is where you'd probably be referred but it's far simpler to just take a bit and find another job. I've been through an identity theft case already and basicallythey try to shame you into dropping it.to keep it germane to the thread topic, you'd probably report a typical burglary to the cops & expect they'd prosecute the perpetrator of said crime to the fullest extent of the law (or at least wish to do so), but I'm betting that even if you discovered chunks of unpaid time you'd hesitate to do the same.
the cops would surely treat them differently, too, because wage theft is considered "white collar crime," and for some reason it doesn't warrant the same reaction or derision (to be clear, they probably wouldn't do much about either scenario, but assuming they're handled at all, they'd be handled differently - no cuffs, no perp walk, etc).
(to pre-emptively address this particular rebuttal, I'm not personally advocating for calling the cops in either case, I'm approaching it from the perspective of someone who *would* call the cops)
oh yeah, I get that there are like, "alternative" resolution methods that they push on you/that you're supposed to follow, I'm just saying it's fucked up that the two types of theft are treated so differently, and that while either generally won't result in a satisfactory resolution, one of them is designed to be so frustrating & bureaucratic that it protects the thieves. if you stole from them rather than the other way around, I don't expect that they'd be so quick to expect the same process for you. see also: whom the law binds but does not protect vs whom the law protects but does not bind.Well the DOL has it's own enforcement division which is where you'd probably be referred but it's far simpler to just take a bit and find another job. I've been through an identity theft case already and basicallythey try to shame you into dropping it.
Yes. Life isn't fair and it isn't going to change.oh yeah, I get that there are like, "alternative" resolution methods that they push on you/that you're supposed to follow, I'm just saying it's fucked up that the two types of theft are treated so differently, and that while either generally won't result in a satisfactory resolution, one of them is designed to be so frustrating & bureaucratic that it protects the thieves. if you stole from them rather than the other way around, I don't expect that they'd be so quick to expect the same process for you. see also: whom the law binds but does not protect vs whom the law protects but does not bind.
Are you aware that Hours of Service violation fines are thousands to tens of thousands of dollars? All working hours in any job count towards the max hours. You're getting your consecutive ten hours off per day and your 34 hour day off per week (no other work) right?I don't disagree but I am too busy working to track my actual hours, tipped vs non tipped income, dot hours vs non dot hours. It is practically a full time job tracking my payroll. So short of hiring a secretary... Shrug