Current Events > Does your work penalize you for staying over shift?

(+) Yeah! (+)

If so what's the penalty and how late can you stay before you get penalized?

Well, if we stay late then we dont dropped home after work.

No, the joys of being salaried.

AKA on-call 24/7 with no additional compensation for working after hours

There's no penalty other than sane coworkers telling you to go the fuck home and stop working for free.

No, not this job. All they ask is for a reason why we needed the OT. So far I haven't had to work any but if I did I think that my boss would be cool with it.

I try to avoid OT as much as possible, though. Used to work 60-70 hours a week at a previous job and got burned out. The warehouse manager once said "I'm sure you like the extra hours" and I said "I like having a life outside of this place". He legitimately looked shocked that someone didn't want to spend every extra moment working. To hell with that.

Yes and No.

Yes in the fact they dont want us to have OT if its avoidable.

No in the sense that I am manager if Distribution and sometimes I have to stay late to finish my day up and they like that. I dont do it unless I have to though

I bet Japanese workers would be flabbergasted at this topic.

ThisIsAKnoife posted...

No, the joys of being salaried.

AKA on-call 24/7 with no additional compensation for working after hours

I feel your pain. The 20-somethings in the office are in an unspoken war to see who pulls the longest shifts, and the rest of us can get swept up into it if we're not careful since our work ties together. It's obviously a battle to be noticed by senior leadership, because if you pay attention, you notice that during their regular work hours they're very sociable and not as productive, and then once they get down to the wire they suddenly become overwhelmed with work to do and end up staying late every night.

The fuck are (non-salaried) people working for free for?

If youre going to stay late, you better be getting some overtime for it. If youre not getting paid, then stop being a work cuck and get out of there.

rexcrk posted...

The fuck are (non-salaried) people working for free for?

If youre going to stay late, you better be getting some overtime for it. If youre not getting paid, then stop being a work cuck and get out of there.

I was alluding to this in my Japan comment. In Japan, you'd be ostracized for having your opinion

They expect overtime work but they don't pay for it. You have stay after hours but your pay stops at the official time your shift is meant to be over.
Also you aren't supposed to leave until the boss does. Japanese office culture is fucked up

ThisIsAKnoife posted...

No, the joys of being salaried.

AKA on-call 24/7 with no additional compensation for working after hours

This.

Technically speaking I've been 'at work' since early September. When I'm not working I'm still 'at work' in so far that I don't have true freedom of movement after work and I'm still 'on site'

No. Sometimes our 12 hour shift turns into a 16 hour shift.

I kind of get rewarded with OT, though that's usually just if the guy working the next shift is running late.

Not really, but it is very much frowned upon.

The only time OT is allowed is during crunch, and even then you're caped at 5 hours per week. Once crunch is over you get paid out an extra hour of PTO for every hour of OT you worked.

rexcrk posted...

The f*** are (non-salaried) people working for free for?

A lot of minimum wage jobs pay by the minute.

Not penalized no, but we need prior approval for Overtime. A manager has to be available while any employee is working, so they need to be able to plan around that. Otherwise it's like nah stop working and go home. The managers are salaried though, so their hours are all over the place.

I don't get penalized... We get overtime, which management does want to limit but our crew always has call offs or people just quitting so there's a good chance we have to stay anyway to finish up...