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Author Topic: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Trust-o-nomics Edition  (Read 3750652 times)

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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Hobo Assault Edition
« Reply #24930 on: June 24, 2013, 04:37:22 pm »

For the record, Hobo Assault sounds like an awesome ban and/or video game title.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Go To Bed Edition
« Reply #24931 on: June 24, 2013, 05:54:53 pm »

That is illegal. You must be payed for every hour that you work or are on call.
Is that a federal law, or do certain states not require this?
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Go To Bed Edition
« Reply #24932 on: June 24, 2013, 05:56:21 pm »

That is illegal. You must be payed for every hour that you work or are on call.
Is that a federal law, or do certain states not require this?

Fairly sure its federal law. If you are not salaried, you must be paid for all the time you work. If you ARE salaried, you can not be forced to work more than 40 hours a week.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Hobo Assault Edition
« Reply #24933 on: June 24, 2013, 06:01:36 pm »

Well, fuck. At least now I know my previous employer was ripping me off rather than simply assuming he was.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Hobo Assault Edition
« Reply #24934 on: June 24, 2013, 06:27:15 pm »

Always be careful to keep your own record of your hours and check them against your pay stubs as well, to make sure that you aren't being stiffed behind the scenes.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Hobo Assault Edition
« Reply #24935 on: June 24, 2013, 06:28:32 pm »

Do this with phone companies too. They often try to apply more minutes to your account than are there.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Hobo Assault Edition
« Reply #24936 on: June 24, 2013, 06:48:33 pm »

Always be careful to keep your own record of your hours and check them against your pay stubs as well, to make sure that you aren't being stiffed behind the scenes.
I was "encouraged" by my supervisor to only put myself down for 8 hours a day despite frequently working closer to 15-16 hours. They didn't need behind-the-scenes stiffing, I was already getting maybe half of what I was rightfully owed.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Go To Bed Edition
« Reply #24937 on: June 24, 2013, 07:28:54 pm »

Fairly sure its federal law. If you are not salaried, you must be paid for all the time you work. If you ARE salaried, you can not be forced to work more than 40 hours a week.

Yeah, and if you call them out on it then you get a couple weeks of reasonable hours before they fire you for not getting enough work done.

Salaries basically exist so companies can give workers more than 40 hours worth of work and only pay them for 40.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Go To Bed Edition
« Reply #24938 on: June 24, 2013, 08:08:04 pm »

The maintenence guys at work. The filter/grease trap thing under the dishwashing machine is overflowing badly, in that at one point when I hadn't run it in over an hour and it still flooded most of the room. When someone finally came, he took a look, and said I should wait half an hour and he'd be back to look again.

Probably more than half an hour later, he comes back, asks me to run a load of dishes through. Right before running the machine, I point out to him directly that it will overflow, since the sink used to rinse off the dishes before sending them into the dishwasher also drains into the same trap, and I had just done several dishes. He tells me to run it anyway. A minute later, I'm going to get the mop to clean up the mess(again).

He calls in another guy, who looks at the machine for awhile. Then they start dismantling the drainage system. Since I had nothing else to do for the day other than the dishes that had yet to be cleaned, I went home tired, hot, and probably smelling faintly of raw sewage for having been in the same room.


Fairly sure its federal law. If you are not salaried, you must be paid for all the time you work. If you ARE salaried, you can not be forced to work more than 40 hours a week.

Yeah, and if you call them out on it then you get a couple weeks of reasonable hours before they fire you for not getting enough work done.

Salaries basically exist so companies can give workers more than 40 hours worth of work and only pay them for 40.
That's still illegal. I'm not sure if it's state or federal, but if you work more than 40 hours, they are required to pay you time and a half for the extra time.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Hobo Assault Edition
« Reply #24939 on: June 24, 2013, 08:20:24 pm »

It's federal law that dictates that employees must be paid for all of the time that they work. Here is a page with some handy information. The FLSA also protects workers from being fired if they file a complaint about their employer.

Some companies that have their employees working for extended periods of time (like the cleanup company hired by my high school last year, when a water line broke and spewed several hundred gallons of water into the building) will also offer double overtime, which typically is 2.5x pay for every hour after the 80th.

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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Hobo Assault Edition
« Reply #24940 on: June 24, 2013, 08:32:04 pm »

So, those problems I've been having with Oblivion. Downloaded Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul. I try to install it - but nope, file is corrupt! Go back and spend another 3+ hours downloading it again! All while your internet disconnects every single time you press something!
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Go To Bed Edition
« Reply #24941 on: June 24, 2013, 08:35:38 pm »

Fairly sure its federal law. If you are not salaried, you must be paid for all the time you work. If you ARE salaried, you can not be forced to work more than 40 hours a week.

Yeah, and if you call them out on it then you get a couple weeks of reasonable hours before they fire you for not getting enough work done.

Salaries basically exist so companies can give workers more than 40 hours worth of work and only pay them for 40.
That's still illegal. I'm not sure if it's state or federal, but if you work more than 40 hours, they are required to pay you time and a half for the extra time.
The thing is that a lot of people aren't really aware of it/willing to fight it/able to fight it.

There's a ton of companies out there that prey on people's meekness, ignorace, desperation, and the fact that lawsuits are very expensive in order to exploit people.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Hobo Assault Edition
« Reply #24942 on: June 24, 2013, 09:07:29 pm »

And there are usually plenty of people who are willing to take your job and do the extra work without complaining.
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Hobo Assault Edition
« Reply #24943 on: June 24, 2013, 09:43:46 pm »

IT IS 4:30AM AND I WANT TO SLEEP BUT THE FIRE ALARM WON'T LET ME WHAT DO I DOOOOOEEEEEEEOOOOOEEEOOOOOOOO
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Re: Things that made you RRAAAAGGGGEEEE today thread: Hobo Assault Edition
« Reply #24944 on: June 24, 2013, 09:45:07 pm »

Put out the fire?
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