Posted on 05/19/2016 8:35:10 PM PDT by Nachum
I’m salaried, have been for years. Some weeks I work 40 hrs, others, 60 hrs. I am on call every third week 24x7 and get called quite a bit “after hours”. It’s part and parcel for what I do. However, I am well compensated so my employer is happy with the labor/work I provide and in turn I am happy with my compensation. If I was not, I would look elsewhere for more suitable employment. Why does the government need to get involved in any of this????
It is a matter of staying ahead of the game. If you aren’t valuable to the company they will take steps to increase your value or get rid of you. One way to increase your value is to make you work more hours.
If you are valuable enough, you can tell them “no”, but that lowers your value pretty quickly. Bottom rung white collar workers have a lot worse deal than top blue collar workers.
Every time I have found my position, skills or talent becoming less valuable I have taken immediate steps to change the situation. A lot of people are unable or unwilling to do that and all the government intervention in the world won’t help them.
Thanks. That's exactly what I was going to say. The only thing I'd add is that I'm pretty much being paid for what I know, not what I do on a daily basis. It's when the excrement hits the rotary impeller and revenue is on the line that it pays off for the company.
In the ultimate form of capitalism it is ok to OWN another human being.
No it isn't, that's a ridiculous assertion.
Bingo.
It’s a market “cheat”. Exploitation is a false premise, the real issue is a surplus and artificial pricing of labor. Nobody makes you take a salaried job, and your free to go at any time.
No one deserves or is owed a job. When you enter a salaried position you’ve essentially contracted for your skill set. If your skill set is needed badly enough then for the “lousy hours” you should either get more or have it in writing you won’t be working 60+ hours a week. An employers acceptance of that means you’re needed bad enough, refusal means there’s plenty more where you came from.
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It looks like it was not a matter of the idea not working at IBM but rather IBM making sure it did not work in the employee’s favor. I agree though that the article’s assumptions about benefits of being salaried are not correct.
Oversimplify all you want; it cost the Republicans many voters (and two presidential elections to a complete nothing loser). The fact is that while all you point out may be true, Americans can’t earn a fair wage with employers skirting laws to bring in foreigners to replace them for less. FWIW, I haven’t worked a lick of “unpaid overtime” in over five years in a decent job - but it isn’t because my boss doesn’t want or expect it. I’m only able to do that because his pets work even less than a standard workweek and it is done openly. Nobody could ask me to work an extra minute with a straight face, and it is on me to protect my job by protecting my knowledge (because nobody owes me a job and I’m not owed one). If it makes financial sense to pay me, they will (and they do).
This is an outrageous lie! Every penny of taxpayer money has been spent with the utmost care and prudence! And put to the best possible use! Not a penny was wasted! That wine was excellent! The hot tub was a customary and necessary expense! Only filthy neocons and lying Republicans would ever say otherwise. Just ask Jeffrey Neely!
This is an outrageous lie! Every penny of taxpayer money has been spent with the utmost care and prudence! And put to the best possible use! Not a penny was wasted! That wine was excellent! The hot tub was a customary and necessary expense! Only filthy neocons and lying Republicans would ever say otherwise. Just ask Jeffrey Neely!
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