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In my current work, now I fully crystallised what wage theft truly means. In theory we have flexible hours. If I work extra one hour in any given day, I could theoretically go home one hour early. But in reality we are working extra hours unpaid. I work in healthcare sector and it’s understandable that delays could mean the patient will be jeopardised. But the management fuck ups mean we pick up the slack but then bear the ire of poor management decisions.
What is that picture in the meme from? He looks like if Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys became a German engineer.
One of the more recent jobs I worked at was in automotive manufacturing. The way they paid employees was…creative. The ad said $18.50 starting. That was the combination of $15.50 and $3. (Wtf is even that?) The larger wage was just like any other job. The lesser, was called an “attendance bonus”. They used a point system, like most places do. They also had this scheme: If you were late to work, or late coming back from a break (within reason) you would be pointed AND since your attendance is not perfect for that week, you lose the bonus (about $130). So being late cost about a whole days pay, plus (minus) 0.25-1.0 point. Oh, and it was UAW? We had the protection of a union, but with a contract that seriously could have been written by management.
Edit: I smoked weed in the parking lots on every break, and management didn’t seem to care. So that was sweet. I also showed up to one of our morning team lead meetings with a couple of live resin carts, which immediately flooded a 5ft radius with that sweet dank as soon as I unzipped my purse. I had some fun times there.
*You hate your country’s laws.
I have 2 weeks off right now, fully paid, and we can be sick up to 6 weeks with full payment, after that 70% payed by my mandatory health insurance. Because it’s the law. It’s also a law that you have to take 2 weeks off in a row at least 1x per year. And you get minimum 4 weeks per year.
How tf do they calculate your payment?
Or they hate that they’re not in a union
The government is the union, at a base level, and then you go from there. If your government offers nothing then even a union will only bring you up so much. Both are good even without the other, but the government actually working for the people and making hard laws is the best option if you had to pick. It’s also much more difficult to do considering most people are dumb as hell, so unions help give them a more local opportunity to understand that working together is a good idea.
Well yeah
I’m not either
What? What country are you from OP? Surely this is illegal.
America, also was a union who contract look like it was written by the company themselves. Garbage.
You gotta level it up by taking more breaks in company time.
Boss makes a dollar,
I make a dime.
That’s why I shit,
On company time.
