Posted on 06/12/2022 4:14:07 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Sounds like something from /antiwork on Reddit.
In the early days when computers were much slower and more difficult, working 24 hours was commonplace, especially in the military (been there, done that).
During the current worker shortage finding a new, perhaps better job, is fairly easy.
I’ve had those bosses. When I was a bagboy in the last century...oh, that sounds old, every time I went someplace to do some task, I’d police the shelves coming and going. If I had a momentary lull, I’d run the broom up and down just one aisle. By the time closing came, we were ready to close. The fist couple of times the boss acted unbelieving. He’d say, “did you mop the floors?” Yep. He’d walk a few problem aisles. “Did you clean the bathrooms?” Yep. Once he realized I was almost always done at quitting time, he cut down my help by enough that it took an extra hour off the clock. He’d check me out. I’d hear the clock and go check back in. It really pissed him off. Then when he quit the next guy scheduled me to close on all the busy nights without cutting the other help. When I mentioned it, he said, “I want to get home before midnight.”
You’re a chump. Do you understand opportunity cost?
Did staying overtime prompt an overtime pay rate?
Did staying overtime prompt an overtime pay rate?
She doesn’t get a pension at 50% of her peak pay after 20 years of service (a la NYC cops as reported in the NYP today).
“This has been one of my guiding principles as an employee my entire life in every profession I have worked at. “
Bingo. And the rewards are you get the next job rather than someone else due to a great referral from you employer, you get better raises, you get picked for promotion, you get layed off last or not at all. Better all that than to be the “victim”.
I had doubts whether I was reading Freeper responses. Tyrant bosses, little Bidens.
A chump? Really? Do you normally speak to people in discourse out of the blue using terms like that? Where is that coming from?
What is worth having a roof over your head? Or, like those on the Left, does someone “owe” you that, because you are an “individual” and “special”?
What is worth having food on your table? Or, like those on the Left, is that a “right”, because you are a human and have needs?
What is worth having clothes on your back? Or, like the Left, should that be a “fundamental human right”, because everyone needs to have clothes?
Those things are meaningful to me, because I was lucky enough to have lived around the world and seen places with my own eyes where employment and a paycheck is a birthright as many here in this country seem to see it.
I don’t take employment and a paycheck for granted as many in this country do. I expect that asinine attitude in places like Communist China and the European Union.
fkn’ A
I used to bust my ass above and beyond. It just got me more work than others.
I work hard for the 40 hours which is a salaried agreement.
Busting your ass, beyond the agreement, to make another man rich is a chump move. You could have spent that time enjoying life or starting your own business. Why am I supposed to have allegiance, when on any given day they say goodbye for “business needs”?
Corporate America isn’t like it was. Why would I go above and beyond so some sub standard Negro or female gets promoted?
I didn’t say it’s a birthright. Salary is for 40 hours a week, that’s the agreement.
The Party that replaces the GOP will have to reject this line of thinking.
And all of you who post, all the damn time, "how could ANYONE in Pennsylvania, in Ohio, in Michigan, in Wisconsin, etc vote for the DEMOCRAT???" - this is how.
These are Trump voters, and if you wonder why the only thing they hate worse than Democrats is Republicans, well - here's your answer.
Thing is, having a good work ethic won’t protect you in any way from being the victim in a layoff, downturn, job obsolescence, or even a crappy boss.
But your own dedication and performance is something YOU can control.
If things do go south, you can at least be satisfied you did all you could to improve the bottom line from an employee perspective, and that if they don’t need you, it wasn’t because you gave them less than what they needed.
There are very few things in life you have complete control over, but your dedication to doing a job correctly and your persistence in getting it done is one of them.
She’s ridiculous because even she said they asked her. It wasn’t expected. Things will have to change in the retail space. Walmart is mostly self checkouts now. I am sure grocery stores aren’t far behind.
Who the Hell cares what kind of impression it leaves. I’m 63 years old and I e been working since I was 8 years old - old enough to push a broom in my dad’s tool and die shop.
I could give a tinkers fart what anyone thinks. Work is a necessary evil to support what I want to do in real life.
And you are an excellent GOP voter.
But your boss was busy manufacturing Democrats, and you didn't even know it.
And private sector unions are why we have right to work states.
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