@georgetakei

Hahaha, if this is an hourly worker and he isnt paying overtime this is a completely valid response :) lol

@freemo @georgetakei Nah, it's valid no matter what kind of worker they are. The idea that we should be emotionally loyal to employers is patently absurd.

@scott_guertin

Salaried employees are expected to make a fix amount no matter how much they are paid. That is the bargain.

@georgetakei

@freemo @georgetakei That doesn't mean that they're obligated to have some sort of greater commitment to their job outside of their assigned duties.

Company loyalty is for suckers.

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@scott_guertin

No one said anything about "greater commitment". Only that a salaried worker's job isnt a 9-5 job. They are expected to work longer hours when needed, sometimes do work after hours, and in exchange they get paid when they take off like vacations.

@georgetakei

@freemo @georgetakei My dude, did you only read the comment of the OP and not what it was responding to?

@scott_guertin

Did you, no where in that quote image does it say anything about "greater commitment"

@georgetakei

@freemo @georgetakei "I don't like that their commitment lasts for work hours only."
Implying he wishes they had more commitment.

@scott_guertin

Oh you meant greater than the commitment they currently have, or a greater commitment than they do to their personal life?

@georgetakei

@scott_guertin

Ahh then yes it is saying that. And since a salaried employee person is expected to have commitment outside of standard hours, how do you know their current level of commitment is appropriate to that?

@georgetakei

@freemo @georgetakei Other than potentially being on call, being salary does not obligate you to take work home with you.

@scott_guertin

By definition salary means you dont have fixed hours, yu work when your needed, including after hours. You dont get extra pay. The bargain is the reverse is true, when you dont work a day you still get paid.

@georgetakei

@freemo @georgetakei sounds like you've drunk the capitalism kool-aid for too long.

@freemo @scott_guertin @georgetakei if long hours are standard, despite agreed business hours, not when needed with proper plan and staffing it's just legalized time theft.

@kneworldodor

Thats generally not the case for salary unless explicitly stated in a contract (in which case it isnt threft). Typically you are expected to work whatever hours are needed to finish your job on time, but you are also welcome to exchange that by working fewer hours during down time. Typically you are expected to average 40 hours a week, where some weeks might be 60 hours others may be 20.

@scott_guertin @georgetakei

@freemo @scott_guertin @georgetakei are you in one of the less predatory environments? Europe maybe? I'm watching the salaried workers around me get burned out regularly. Sometimes they don't even get past orientation before they realize what's going on and quit. Take, no give.

@kneworldodor

I have worked as an employee as well as been a C-level manager (usually CTO or CIO) in many countries including quite a few european countries, the middle east, and USA.

As I said, if salaried employees are being abused with really high overtime and not enough pay, then they negotiated a shitty contract. Lots of people self-sabotage and negotiate bad contracts for themselves. But thats on them. At every stage of my career I have always negotiated strongly and as a result I have never had these issues. I would generally negotiate very high salaries, work the overtime, and negotiated 3 month vacation blocks to oppose the overtime (which was my standard as a Sr. dev and team lead). In cases where I couldnt negotiate the vacation time I eitehr ensured to put time limits in my contract or if i felt i could handle the excessive work would negotiate very high salaries to make up for it.

When I hire people I always as the hiring manager make it a point to keep my workers to an average of 40 hour weeks just to keep them at their best. Overtime happens, but when it does its offset by extra down time.

@scott_guertin @georgetakei

@freemo @scott_guertin @georgetakei it's not the contracts. It's the bosses expecting the employees to accept mission creep. It's an every day fight with the bully taking your lunch money. You're tilting at windmills in this thread.

@freemo @scott_guertin @georgetakei No, they are not. That's why we have something called "overtime pay". Because work in excess of agreed hours is something that is compensated separately.

@pies

Sakary employees do **not** get overtime pay, by definition a salary employee doesnt even have an hourly rate they have a yearly rate. Overtime is only an idea that applies to hourly employees.

@scott_guertin @georgetakei

@freemo @pies @scott_guertin @georgetakei It depends. When I was a NASA engineer on the GS pay scale, I was salaried, but I had to fill out a time card every pay period. Mostly to account for the different programs to which I got assigned, but I also got paid overtime for each hour over the standard 80 I was required to work (two week pay period). When I was a brewer I was an hourly employee, but I earned vacation time.​ When I was in the Army I had to burn vacation time mid-tour while being on duty for 50 fucking weekends. I was salaried, but effectively earning below the poverty line for the amount of hours I was "at work." Now I'm truly salaried and take as long of lunch breaks as I can get away winh and leave as early as possible to get my effective wage as high as possible.

@black6

First time I ever heard of any salaried employee getting overtime. How does that work considering a salaried employee doesnt have an hourly wage defined?

@scott_guertin @pies @georgetakei

@freemo @scott_guertin @pies @georgetakei One of the oddities of working for the federal government. Uncle Sam demands his 40 hours a week, but every action has a reaction so he'll pay you for working over. My wage was defined by my annual salary divided by 2080 hours. At first I earned time-and-a-half overtime, then by the time I left NASA I had risen enough in the GS scale that my overtime was just straight time. Better than nothing!

@freemo @black6 @scott_guertin @georgetakei At my company you calculate your hourly wage from salary divided by 30*8 then multiply it by 1.5 to get the overtime pay rate. Many companies expect people to work for free, like you've said, but they're not good companies.

@freemo @black6 @scott_guertin @georgetakei To be honest I've never heard of overtime pay for hourly employees. How does that work? Where does the overtime start? It's just more hours.

@pies

By law, an by default, overtime is any time worked beyond 40 hours in a week. Overtime by law must be paid at 1.5x the base rate by default in most states.

There are of course exceptions on a per-contract or per-state basis. But thats the standard.

@black6 @scott_guertin @georgetakei

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