Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Ryujin]

It depends on the state.

In California, you accrue OT if you work more than 40 hours in a week OR you work more than 8 hours a day. So you can't claw back OT by cutting someone's hours after the OT occurred. The law was specifically designed to stop that kind of predatory wage theft.

Another trick that some use is to claim that since pay is every 2 weeks it somehow becomes more than 80 hours over two weeks. I've had a couple of employers make that ridiculous claim, over the years.

 

[dragoner]

Just don't fall for "comp time." lol

 

[Velderan]

Interesting. I have known people who do 4x10 hours a week and really like the three day weekends.

I do 9 hour days Monday through Thursday and get every other Friday off. It’s really nice when the Friday off lines up with a holiday in a Monday. If a holiday falls on a Friday I am supposed to be off, I either get 9 hours vacation added to my balance or can cash out 9 hours on the check for that pay period.

 

[Ryujin]

Just don't fall for "comp time." lol

Unless of course it's the sort of thing that management hopes you'll forget about, but you can use it at the most inopportune time possible

 

[prabe]

Unless of course it's the sort of thing that management hopes you'll forget about, but you can use it at the most inopportune time possible

Also, of course, it might be the only thing on offer--in which case you should be utterly merciless about taking advantage of it.

 

[gnarlygninja]

Interesting. I have known people who do 4x10 hours a week and really like the three day weekends.

There's an exception for approved alternative work schedules, iirc for someone with that schedule it would start at 10 hours instead of 8.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Interesting. I have known people who do 4x10 hours a week and really like the three day weekends.

I believe there's a carveout for 4x10s, as it's super popular in local government.

 

[dragoner]

Also, of course, it might be the only thing on offer--in which case you should be utterly merciless about taking advantage of it.

When you are salary, it's often meaningless, then again they left me alone for weeks on end to avoid talking about it, there was that. Then I got the genius idea, maybe I didn't need them at all. You never work so many hours when you are working for yourself.

 

[Ryujin]

Also, of course, it might be the only thing on offer--in which case you should be utterly merciless about taking advantage of it.

One of the employers who tried the "80 hours over 2 weeks" thing on me also had me on salary as a "manager", so they claimed overtime was unpaid. I pulled out the fact that, under Federal Employment Law, a manager was someone who solely manages the actions of others, not someone who actually does the work. As I both managed and did the job as well, that didn't fly. This same company made me punch a clock and tried to not pay me for the very rare days I was out sick. (Maybe 5, total, in 7 years. I didn't even take a day after the weekend in which I broke a collarbone, in a motorcycle crash.)

That was when I started truly watching the clock. Start at 9, out at 5. When they closed down that branch and laid us all off I took that very same clock from the warehouse wall home with me. I still have it, 30 years later.

 

[Scribe]

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Well done, really, just what I wanted to see going into the weekend.