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.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
I knew of a case in Florida state government in which an attorney complained but nevertheless put in the extra hours required by her workload. After several years, she married and quit her job — but through an attorney delivered a demand for time and half for the extra hours she put in, as documented by the detailed log book she had kept. Her department paid the claim in full.
This is why I would not even consider hiring anyone under 40 years old my last ten years of managing a heavy lifting company . Absenteeism , texting instead of working , on and on . We paid on Thursday and Friday morning the youngins never showed up .
Scheduling in retail is a pain in the neck. I did scheduling in call centers for years. Often times the company would spend a lot of money on scheduling systems and then ignore the results.
I used to work for THE mega corp. There were many levels of management. As an hourly employee, one of my immediate supervisors, my “boss”, was often fond of threatening his gang with the statement,
“You’re lucky you have a job!”
Then, when he said it one time too many, someone retorted,
“No! YOU’RE lucky we have a job! Because without us, they don’t need you!”
“ 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.”
There is no way a cashier could legally meet the requirements to be considered exempt of the overtime law. The only ones that probably are in this situation would be the top management.
Most people who work office jobs in the a/c have no idea what its like to work in 100 plus heat doing manual labor. When its quitting time, I’m outta there
Yep.
I can’t stand workaholics.
Those bosses can suck it.
Funny movie and, in my opinion, a lot of truth.
Hourly workers are paid by the hour. My plant would do the right thing and ask if anyone would be willing to stay over.
If she stays 5 min over, she isn’t getting paid for it. You may think its ok to work for free but its really not ok
When I worked at a big box store it was a fireing offense to NOT leave on time. We had six minutes to clock out. Past that you would get a write up for “unauthorized overtime.”
This has been one of my guiding principles as an employee my entire life in every profession I have worked at.
Your employer owes you nothing at all if you don't observe this principle.
They don't "owe" you a paycheck.
Even if she is paid when asked to stay, if you schedule someone to work a shift that’s their shift. The problem here is the expectation that people should stay beyond their assigned time without issue.
Sounds like poor management to me.
But this generally gets spun as “not a team player”.
If you want her there for an extra 15 minutes after her replacement shows up (or whatever) schedule her the extra 15 minutes.
This is as dumb as the boss who chastises employees for “almost” being late… and yes I have seen that too.
Just because you took it deeper in the can doesn’t mean she doesn’t have a valid point.
F*****’ A…
My first job as a teen was at a local DQ. We had to come in ten minutes early -UNPAID- for shift change. Even as a teen I added up the free labor my crappy boss was siphoning.
One other thing I noticed from my jobs I’ve the years. The workers who stay when needed, come in on their days off ( I learned not to answer the phone on my days off), go the extra mile….are treated like garbage. The ones who constantly call off , come in a few minutes late, work like molasses….the boss bends over backwards for those people. It’s like he doesn’t want to admit he hired a lazy, complaining good for nothing. But call off because you’re coughing up a lung and you get the attitude.
I have been working nearly fifty to sixty hour work weeks as a salaried employee for the last 30 years of my career, and the first 10 years I worked I was hourly. Before that I was military.
I approached each and every one of them exactly the same. If I had a job to do, I finished the job, or ensured it was handed off to someone who would finish it.
My first goal was to own a job and do it right. My second goal was make my manager’s job easier. And my third goal was to provide value to my employer and make them want to keep me.
And I found that fulfilling each goal simply flowed naturally by fulfilling the goals before it.
Does that make me a slave? To some, perhaps. But when my last job of twenty years duration went away because the system I managed on was being replaced, my employer, without even asking me, created another job for me out of thin air. They valued me because I worked hard at providing value, and it paid off for me in the end with that.
It is my responsibility to provide value, not my employer’s responsibility to give me a job.
That would be great……
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