“be told to work 16 hours on a hoilday by corporate bosses”
I’m sure those “corporate bosses” never worked a 16 hour day. /s
I’m not a corporate anything but I sure as hell have worked more than a 16 hr. day since we work for ourselves. Try that and then get back to me.
Little story here: I worked 25 years at my company's stamping plant in Detroit before getting transferred to the corporate office in Troy in the fall of 1997. In the summer of 2005, I would often encounter the corporate Controller enjoying a cigarette on the shipping dock at the back of the large office building our headquarters were located in. I had known Jim from years back when he was manager of the accounting dept. back at the plant until his transfer to corporate. And because of his "roots", he was one of only a handful of corporate managers and executives that you could easily talk to and consider one of the "good guys".
Jim had been given his notice that he was being forced into retirement the following November and because of his health, I was glad to see it. Over the years, Jim had undergone many back surgeries with the latest being a rod inserted in his spine and he lived in constant pain because of it. But he would always return to work.
Well that summer, we kinda became friends on that shipping dock and he would share his feelings on the corporation's CEO who was from our parent German company. Jim told me that the CEO would put in 12 to 16 hours per day, everyday including Saturday's and Sundays and would require Jim and the rest of the staff to report for work on Saturday's too, although not necessarily working the long hours.
So people with predetermined and erroneous ideas on how the upper levels of corporate management work, they need to see what it took for these people to get to their level and what it takes for them to remain there. It takes total dedication to the corporation with their families taking second place and willingness to deal with the stress and mandatory long hard hours away from home.......
As for the Supervisors in our manufacturing plant, they were fixed salary and only received payment for overtime after 60 HOURS.......and in a manufacturing facility such as ours that was a Tier I supplier to the Big 3, that was constant.