Posted on 06/12/2022 4:14:07 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
In a viral video, a TikToker shares her frustration with her workplace culture after they repeatedly ask her to stay back when her shift ends. As a cashier, Julia (@jvliabee) says she’s had to deal with constant teasing from co-workers and her bosses about leaving “right on the dot.”
“Why are bosses and even some other co-workers so offended when you try to leave on time?” Julia says in the video. “God forbid I work my scheduled work hours and leave on time.”
She explains she’s baffled that her colleagues don’t seem to understand her life does not revolve around her retail workplace.
“I have a life outside of work and I don't wanna live and breathe and sleep at my job,” Julia says.
The creator shares her grievances about past jobs where they also asked her to stay back up to 40 minutes after her shift was scheduled to end.
“Schedule me that long or I’m leaving when I’m scheduled to leave what is the problem,” she says.
Julia’s video resonated with hundreds of users and has garnered more than 130,000 views.
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If she's not paid for the work she is justified. It is unclear if the shift schedules overlap to allow accounting.
I’ve worked more than my share of low-end, minimum wage over the years, and have also had quite a few bosses that laid it out very explicitly from Day One that no one is irreplaceable, and that one of the conditions of continued employment was that employees had to always be willing to go “above and beyond”.
If an employee was unwilling, then the boss would simply find another, who was. I had a few bosses who even went so far as to say things along the lines of: “You know, there are plenty of immigrants, who would be more than happy to take this job, and to work their asses off to keep it. Every day you come in here, you had better be prepared to PROVE to me that you are an asset to this organisation.”
This is why they have unions.
“I have a life outside of work and I don’t wanna live and breathe and sleep at my job,” Julia says
It sounds to me her life does revolve around her job.
After she leaves work, she go home to make videos complaining about her job.
Hourly workers should have to expectation to “work later” once their hours are up. You either arrange that in advance (good management) or you hire more people. Workplace culture is critical to worker success. The more you act like a petty tyrant, the more you can expect disgruntled employees.
That said, if you’re salaried, you just suck it up. I’ve been in IT for 25+ years. There’s no such thing as a set schedule.
Some retail shifts depend on the next guy showing up before you leave. Don’t know the situation here.
Also don’t know the details of the complainers life, though I’m sympathetic to the work to live vs live philosophy.
Personally, I get by by doing a lot of things myself in the other “work” such as on the car, house, yard, etc.. Those things too require a finite amount of time. For me to hire someone to do all that I do outside of the office, I’d need to double my salary.
While you are at work, employers expect your life to revolve around your work. They expect your full attention, enthusiasm, and energy because that's what it takes to make an operation successful.
Leaving on the "dot" gives the impression that your mind is elsewhere during your time on the job.
Ugh, work to live vs live to work above.
I’m sure she’s getting paid when she works over her shift. But, when her shift is over, she’s outta there. She doesn’t want to stay a minute longer. Lol.
When my wife was a Walmart cashier the in house computer system would lock her out the exact instant her shift ended. Did not matter if she was checking out a customer or not.
Any unscheduled overtime could get you fired even if such OT was at the request of a Manager.
“Some retail shifts depend on the next guy showing up before you leave.”
Yup. The next shift guy doesn’t show up on time and you have provide continuity. I always proved extra value to my employer or clients. My “competition” who would give the minimum expected or required, were always “surprised” when thet didn’t get a bigger raise, or promotion, or were the first ones on the layoff list.
I had the exact opposite problem with my former employer. They expected too much work from too few people in too short a time. Their work expectations was just NOT humanly possible. My and other employee complaints about the company’s impossible demands just fell on deaf ears.
But they were adamant that their employees clocked out and left the facility as soon as their shift was over. You had to clock out within minutes of the end of your shift and go home.
Many was the time I just couldn’t finish my job before the end of my shift. So I’d stay past my quitting time and wouldnt clock out until I was finished for the day. I thought that maybe the company would appreciate that. Nope. I’d get written up. So, I’d clock out on time even though my job was far from finished for the day. Again I’d get written up.
“When my wife was a Walmart cashier”
Must have been a long time ago as nowadays finding a live, breathing cashier at Walmart is close to impossible.
Worse, I’ve been in Walmart when they only had 5 self checkouts open and no live cashiers, the lines were 3-5 deep.
If every employee is expendable, so is every employer to the employee. Its a two way street
I had an employer who exoected me to do more work at home after hours not because there was a need to get the work done, but rather so i can prove what a “superstar” i was. Funny i sure wasnt paid like a superstar. I was having none of it. I was canned. I now work for an owner who leaves “on the dot” shares his profits and is the nicest man i have ever worked for. He has my loyalty and extra effort.
We recently had our hours cut so we only work 1/2 hour of OT a day.
You have to leave “ on the dot “ now.
We get orders in for equipment late in the afternoon, and sometimes those orders go unfilled until after noon the next day now since we don’t have that extra time to have them ready to go out on the morning delivery runs.
Rental agents are too famous for waiting until late afternoon to put their orders in, especially on Fridays.
I had the exact opposite problem with my former employee. They were adamant that their employees clocked out and left the facility as soon as their shift was over. You had to clock out within minutes of the end of your shift and go home.
But they expected too much work from too few people in too short a time. Their work expectations was just NOT humanly possible. My and other employee complaints about the company’s impossible demands just fell on deaf ears.
Many was the time I just couldn’t finish my job before the end of my shift. So I’d stay past my quitting time and wouldnt clock out until I was finished for the day. I thought that maybe the company would appreciate that. Nope. I’d get written up. So, I’d clock out on time even though my job was far from finished for the day. Again I’d get written up.
I was in law enforcement. It quite often happened I was “volun-told” for an extra 8 hours. Once in a blue moon, 12. And she’s complaining about 40 minutes?
Lady, please.
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In Europe people work to live, in the state’s they expect you to live to work. There is a substantial cultural difference. One of the most successful companies I ever worked for was a small company in Austin the founders were Europeans. The schedule was four days a week 6 hours on Friday it was 4 hours nearly all of that was end of week meetings and wrap up with beer and margarita machines being unlocked after the meetings were done in our vast game room area people hung out socializing well after work was done. Every day was shorts and t-shirts we had stocked fridges with sodas and juice for the staff and lunches were brought in by vendors currying favor nearly every day. Part of our compensation was profit sharing bonuses and nonpublic stocks. This company eventually got so good at what they did a fortune 500 made them an offer no-one could refuse. Those of us who had large numbers of private stock got a huge payout on the buyout I bought my first home cash with a portion of that and a duplex to generate passive income from also cash. The moral is treat your employees right and you will attract talent and retain it. Not a single person I worked with didn’t have a master’s in their field and most were PhD level.
I am out of step with many here.
A lot of bosses out there think that the work is everything. They think they own you. You think they have total control of you if you are salaried, and almost as much control over you if you are simply hourly. A lot of bosses think you are lucky to have a job there. They are doing you a favor by giving you a paycheck. A lot of bosses see the bottomline but don’t see the people doing the work.
But it’s the 21st century.
There are help wanted signs all over the place. And a lot of bosses today are not the bosses of yesterday. A lot of them are ignorant jerks who don’t actually understand the work. But they figure if they bully people enough, the work will get done.
I think the workers know some things that the bosses don’t. The boss needs the workers right now more than the workers need the bosses.
In truth, additional automation is coming and everything will change because of that. But right now, bosses should be grateful that they have workers.
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