Fixed that for you.Poorly ran American companies are stealing away many hours from our lives increasingly each year. Sad.
American companies are stealing away many hours from our lives increasingly each year. Sad.
Well yea you live down south here in the US and you get a few flakes and people freak out. And what worse when does snow like an inch or two its mayhem, since people have no experience with snow.
The worse are "salaried" positions. I don't even know how that's legal. Get paid 40 hours a week but force to work 80. This is why unions exist and why I would never work in a non unionized work place. The problem is when unions start to get too ridiculous to the point that they greatly impede the work. There needs to be proper balance.
The worse are "salaried" positions. I don't even know how that's legal. Get paid 40 hours a week but force to work 80.
I doubt its that much. Teachers who make 100k in NY are those who worked for 30 yearsWe in NY see what happens when unions become too powerful. Even our kindergarten teachers make $130k/year on LI. The avg teacher income is over $100k and they get free full medical (common for Canada but not for us) for life. Pensions are ridiculous. It drives our taxes to $10k/year for school alone. And this is just teacher unions. Cops are also thieves here.
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Just got an email from my company - due to a storm coming the office will be closed, and if you do not have power at home (to work from home) you must use PTO.
...Does that sound right? Seems somehow illegal.
That teacher salary isn’t the problem, it’s the waste in the rest of the system.We in NY see what happens when unions become too powerful. Even our kindergarten teachers make $130k/year on LI. The avg teacher income is over $100k and they get free full medical (common for Canada but not for us) for life. Pensions are ridiculous. It drives our taxes to $10k/year for school alone. And this is just teacher unions. Cops are also thieves here.
If public sector unions were able to do their thing without the power to negotiate salary or outrageous benefits, I would agree with you. Controlling work hours up to a certain point is necessary. As it stands, their demands get worse and more greedy every year at the expense of all taxpayers and they don't give a shit as long as they get theirs.
Getting back to salary though - companies are plentiful and so that keeps them in check as far as working conditions and offered benefits. If you are marketable as an employee, you have options. That's why many like unions - they don't have to work for it as much. I do look down upon them all, especially because we see them in action.
I doubt its that much. Teachers who make 100k in NY are those who worked for 30 years
That teacher salary isn’t the problem, it’s the waste in the rest of the system.
Our nation averages spending $11k/student
http://www.governing.com/gov-data/education-data/state-education-spending-per-pupil-data.html
I was a non-exempt manager in BellSouth during the SBC acquisition. SBC immediately changed all such types in the legacy BellSouth to convert to exempt. Then they forced us to work >40/week. This is the SBC way of doing business regardless of the name they use (ahem, AT&T). Last year I made slightly more than a friend. I am at a lower manager level than he is, but I am non-exempt and he is exempt. My OT outpaced his high bonus and salary. BTW, I am not a bargained employee, but it would be nearly the same.You are referring to "exempt" positions, as in exempt from the requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act in the US (or the Canada Labour Code for Canada). That's how it's legal.
You can be salaried and still earn overtime.
You can also be salaried and not even work 40 hours a week, so it goes both ways. Any company that is working people more than 40 hours a week is a poorly ran company anyways, even if they are paying OT. That just means they have completely shit managers who have no clue how to plan properly.The worse are "salaried" positions. I don't even know how that's legal. Get paid 40 hours a week but force to work 80. This is why unions exist and why I would never work in a non unionized work place. The problem is when unions start to get too ridiculous to the point that they greatly impede the work. There needs to be proper balance.
You can also be salaried and not even work 40 hours a week, so it goes both ways. Any company that is working people more than 40 hours a week is a poorly ran company anyways, even if they are paying OT. That just means they have completely shit managers who have no clue how to plan properly.
That's bullshit. Companies that are working people more than 40 hours a week on salary is the new norm of a good capitalist company.
You sound like you work for a bad company. Sucks to be you.That's bullshit. Companies that are working people more than 40 hours a week on salary is the new norm of a good capitalist company.
You sound like you work for a bad company. Sucks to be you.
I've worked in software development now since 2004 and I've worked more than 40 hours in a week exactly 2 times, and it was with the same company, and I was with that company for 7 months which is my shortest job by far, since they were a poorly ran company.
You can find well ran companies that care about their employees just fine in the states. I know because I work for one. But I do agree with you that in general it's not the case to find a well ran company. The main issue IMO is that there are a lot more poorly ran companies than well ran companies.I work for myself, I'm a freelancer. Sometimes I miss the steady schedule corporate life and other times I don't.
But when I was in corporate with a lot more friends with corporate jobs it was almost the same across the board. The 40 hour workweek was going the way of the dodo. Randomly got to talking about some things with my therapist the other week and ended up discussing the main issues for the generation before ours and the biggest issue was work/life balance because people are working more and it's just a given. It's not a 100% rule, there are some generous companies out there that respect the worker more than others but in general that's not the case. You have to move to Europe to get the whole 'a poorly ran company is one that pushes its workers past the standard 40 hour workweek'. And forget about talking about vacation time.