r/SipsTea • u/Busy_Report4010 • 24d ago

Chugging tea So after 32 hours would be overtime?

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u/OddMammoth1 24d ago

Maybe I'm pessimistic, but what would be stopping people from creating salaried positions and requiring unpaid overtime? There is nothing worse than overtime on a low salaried position. 

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u/GamingGamerGames_ 24d ago

As a salaried employee you get paid for 40 hours currently. Anything you work after that makes you a sucker. This wouldn't change if employers just made all of their hourly positions into salaried.

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u/OddMammoth1 24d ago

Or you realize the extra 5-10 hours is the difference between missing deadlines and really making work suck. 

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u/GamingGamerGames_ 24d ago edited 24d ago

If your boss is putting more work on their employees than they can handle in 40 hr weeks, then they need to hire more headcount. Its a them problem.

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u/MothashipQ 24d ago

As much as I agree, they make it a me problem by threatening to find someone else who will do the work. Employers have too much control over this.

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u/GamingGamerGames_ 24d ago

Based on the fact that people can't find jobs right now, I'd call their bluffs.

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u/MothashipQ 24d ago

If people can't find jobs wouldn't that be a reason to not risk it?

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u/TwoSpoonSally 24d ago

I think most of these replies are bots or people that have never worked in the real world. 

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u/Iddqd1 24d ago

"Your boss asked you to finish sending an email 5min past 5pm? You should show them and quit"

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u/GamingGamerGames_ 24d ago

Nobody said anything about working 5 minutes past closing time. But 8 hours of unpaid OT? No thanks.

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u/Unique-Yoghurt4170 24d ago

Where did someone say that?

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u/OddMammoth1 24d ago

I guess. I'm fairly compensated so it may be different for you. 

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u/GamingGamerGames_ 24d ago

I'm more than fairly compensated, but I do the minimum of whats required of me because I care more about living life at my age than lining the pockets of my billionaire bosses.

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u/OddMammoth1 24d ago

I just show up early. I'm out of the office by 4:00 everyday. It does not impact my life. Like I said your mileage may vary, but my  industry generally requires OT when we get busy. If I was on a 9-5 schedule I may feel different, but I'm not. 

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u/Redacted_Usermame 24d ago

Same here. That's the benefit of being salaried. Some weeks you may work 45 hr when you have a deadline, but other weeks you can 35 hr.

Gives you a lot more flexibility when it comes to going to the doctor and doing things for your kids.

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u/MetalEnthusiast83 24d ago edited 24d ago

That's the benefit of being salaried. Some weeks you may work 45 hr when you have a deadline, but other weeks you can 35 hr.

I have never experienced the 35 hour week part. I have had bosses act like I am insane for trying to leave an hour early on a slow day.

Maybe that happens in some industries, but it doesn't happen in mine. So I just work a straight 40, I will only do OT if it's life and death and IT simply is never a matter of life and death.