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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As a worker, it is not my responsibility to work extra hours due to the lack of foresight, incompentence or greed of upper management.
Once in a great while, OK.
But more than once in a while is covering for management irresponsibility.
It was rude for me to call you a chump, I take it back.
We have very different outlooks on life.
My disgust with corporate America has tainted my view on work in life.
I busted my ass and got more work, and minorities were rewarded. I’m jaded.
Companies largely have no allegiance anymore, so neither do I.
Have a good day.
I understand everything you said. but IMO, when it boils down to it, unless you OWN and RUN your own company (which, as an American, you have COMPLETE freedom to attempt...so far) you have zero control over your fate as a worker.
In the 20th Century and up to today, we had the opportunity to see what happens to places that promise the workers control over their fate. At best, they don’t get that and have to live with the illusion that they do, and openly mouth their belief that it works, and at worst, tens or hundreds of millions of people are murdered to further the goals of the “workers paradise”.
Lastly, if one predicates happiness or contentment over something you have zero control over, I don’t think happiness or contentment is going to result.
Thanks-I just didn’t expect it from you and it caught me off guard, that’s all.
I get your point, FRiend.
I woke up grumpy. :)
When my wife was a Walmart cashier the in house computer system would lock her out the exact instant her shift ended.
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The reason for that is they had some big payouts in the past for overtime violations. Here is 1 example:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/wal-mart-to-pay-4-8m-for-overtime-violations
“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.”
I agree. We live in soft society.
I worked offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. Long hours and hot. However there was usually a breeze which helped.
I think it is beneficial for people to have experienced a real manual labor job. It gives you an appreciation for what some people deal with their whole life. It also offers motivation to get a better job.
If the employees are not being paid for the extra time, then it is organized theft.
You sound like an MBA or a manager (by definition, dishonest and incompetent; but sometimes that is just them passing down the instructions from a higher manager or the C-suite).
I agree completely.
Though I do have to admit, I have been extremely fortunate that in my entire career, I have had superb bosses nearly universally, ones who would even cover for me if I made mistakes, which I have often done. (I tried my hand at being a supervisor for about 15 years, and it wasn't my forte. I am not cut out for it.) But I have found that even middling bosses can be manageable and even good bosses (from the perspective of the subordinate) if you work to make their jobs easier. And that has made my life easier as well.
Doesn't always work out.
But, that kind of performance serves to insulate you to a degree. When your boss is fired or let go, often those above seem to understand they shouldn't be letting you go as well. But it does involve subjugating yourself to the "mission" whatever that mission might be.
I learned how to call in when I was still in my ‘20’s and got crap for being sick...
Hello, this is joe, I’m sick. I won’t be in today. Click.
Good comment and it looks like you chose a fitting screen name.
:-)
Needless to say I did not stay in those minimum wage positions very long. I was always quickly promoted and moved up the ladder.
Oh, I couldn't be more in agreement. 100%. When I was in the Navy, I worked on a blisteringly hot flight deck that was hot enough to make me cut holes in my boondockers, and on the same flight deck up above the Arctic Circle where my fingers were frozen to the point they felt like Jimmy Dean sausages and a badly scraped knuckle refused to bleed until I went below, and there is rarely a day I don't appreciate working in a climate controlled environment. Sometimes, on a stiflingly hot day, I will drive by a bunch of guys roofing a house, and my heart goes out to them. I remember. And I am grateful to have had that experience.
The two don’t comport (i.e., competent bosses hiring enough help to meet work demands, do competent scheduling and enforcement of policy for absences, et.).
I hate unions with a passion but because an employer suffers from whatever (low employee count, difficult scheduling or unreliable workers) is no reason to put some sort of “call of duty” onus on reliable employees to commit to above and beyond.
LOL, I just thought that was normal for me...:)
LOL.
I’m going to take some time off of here. The world and news are getting to me.
Time to relax and recharge. Talk to you sometime later on.
I am with you 100%.
One thing that most people do not realize, and this requires a change in your thought process.
You are not an employee.
You are an independent business.
You are Joe Fonebone Inc.
You have credits, and you have debits.
Just like a real business.
Your job is to negotiate the highest rate of pay and benefits for your company.
As a business, if you have a bad client and/or customer, you drop them like a bad habit.
Same with a so called employer.
As a business, you are paid X amount of dollars for X amount of work.
Sometimes, you have to throw in some “value added” stuff to keep your customer.
Sometimes.
As a business owner, if sometimes becomes all the time, then it is YOUR responsibility to re-negotiate the contract.
If an agreement cannot be made, time to find a new customer.
If your contract says to produce 100 widgets a day, and you meet that production level, then you have met your contract requirements for the day. If your customer then tell you to sweep the floor, you have every right to say, “That’s not my job”.
You are your own company
Although the expression: "If you expect to be paid for every hour you work then I expect you to work every hour you're paid," rings reasonable, it is also true that because the only thing these lower level employees have to "sell" is their labor, it is not reasonable to expect them to work without paying them for their time.
Requiring a non-exempt employee to work beyond their paid time is not only illegal, it is unethical ... arguably a form of stealing a valuable product (a person's labor; their time).
Although, of course, there are occasional exceptions and circumstances, and some employees are willing to accomodate them, these exceptions and circumstances must not be the norm ... it's bad business and it's just not right.
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