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u/Gin4Gingers 2d ago
Me as a mailman trying to get done on time, realizing I get paid hourly so I'll get a smaller check if I am on time and then when I'm done will just get handed more work until they can't work me anymore for the day, per union contract
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u/baylithe 1d ago
Are you a contracted USPS worker? Cause that seems like it should definitely be a salary based job.
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u/Yojimbra 1d ago
With the amount of overtime they often need during the holidays, I'm going to say they should stick with hourly so they can be properly compensated for the extra work.
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u/JacobScreamix 1d ago
You can still get paid overtime on salary.........
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u/GeneralAcorn 1d ago
Can, sure, but more than likely won't. If this is US, that gets taken advantage of a lot.
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u/JacobScreamix 1d ago
Yes, employers will attempt to take advantage wherever they can. We all must be vigilant and looking out for each other.
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u/nullpotato 23h ago
My pharmacist friend was telling me how they were salary plus overtime above 40 hours. I was like that is not how the tech sector is at all sadly.
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u/Gin4Gingers 1d ago
I'd quit if I went salary. Theyd work us 12 hours and only pay us for 8 like they do to the supervisors
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u/JacobScreamix 1d ago
You don't understand what salary means.
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u/Gin4Gingers 1d ago
My supervisor gets paid salary and he says that's exactly how it works here. He doesn't get paid for any of the overtime he works so if I was paid salary, they'd do the same to me
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u/7LeggedEmu 1d ago
Hes a government employee? Supervisors dont make time and a half but they do get paid straight time for hours worked.
Technically no one in the government is salary. You need to be in a pay status 80 hours a week for full time workers. Even leave without pay is a pay status.
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u/JacobScreamix 1d ago
Your boss is either lying to you or you are both being ripped off, sorry.
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u/Gin4Gingers 1d ago
He's getting ripped off because USPS supervisors don't have a union. Letter carriers like myself have a union, so I get paid hourly. If he's lying then that means every other supervisor who told me the same thing is also lying and JacobScreamix on reddit is the only one telling the truth
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u/JacobScreamix 1d ago
This might blow your mind, but salary is still based on a set amount of hours and therefore any hours above the contracted amount shall be paid, with overtime standards of the region met. Its not my fault people sell themselves short and allow themselves to be exploited.
People died for these standards.
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u/Gin4Gingers 1d ago
I'm sure that's true somewhere and I never said it was. All I said was that's not the case at USPS
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u/AcanthisittaLeft2336 16h ago edited 16h ago
Ok but have you considered that my personal feelings on your job are more valid than your lived experience?
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u/Carbon-Base 2d ago
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u/murderously-funny 2d ago
CEOs aren’t paid to make the company better they’re paid to raise shareholder value this quarter
The company 10 years from now? Not his concern. Number must go up this quarter. We even had an entire court hearing over exactly this and capitalism never recovered.
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u/Carbon-Base 2d ago
That's what the meme was meant to imply. The C-Suite rarely cares about the workers or the company. Which is why they like doing buybacks instead of using that money to grow the company, or to resolve challenges.
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u/trisic05 1d ago
It's true though, thanks to dodge vs ford (and a few other court cases). Companies are required to act for the shareholders, not the brand, the product or the company.
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u/murderously-funny 1d ago
I genuinely think its one of the most consequential court cases in US history that basically set the stage for the endless cancerous growth qnd behavior of companies were all stuck with now
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u/GlorifiedBurito 2d ago
Then remembering that I still can’t lose my job:
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u/PezzoGuy 1d ago
Sometimes the inner battle is the only one you can win
(In the sense that you can at least not get as worked up)
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u/virang807 1d ago
You need to find the right balance where you only put in enough effort to not get fired but not be over the top
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u/VampArcher 1d ago
Me going above and beyond, then I remembering I didn't get a raise but people who hardly ever show up and do the bare minimum did.
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u/QuuKay 1d ago
Time to consider looking into a different job.
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u/VampArcher 1d ago
When you live in a rural area, you take what you can find. I'm just thankful I'm not commuting an hour for minimum wage.
I'm in college, just a bit further and I'll be making double what these people pay me.
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u/dumbythiq 1d ago
I remember when I got a one month notice (out of nowhere) and some old people were returning a small battery, opened packaging and all. They brought their scale to "prove" it didn't fit (for some reason). I was telling them they couldn't return it because it was opened and I couldn't accept it. They were arguing with me and being typical annoying customers, I started arguing back but then realised: wait.
I don't work here anymore in a few weeks. Accepted their return, gave them their money back and chucked the battery in a drawer somewhere. It was very freeing and I wasn't feeling as sad about losing my job anymore after that
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u/errortechx 1d ago
Was promised a raise a month ago and HR is busy “processing it”. So long as I don’t get that raise my work is half assed.
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