Arriving at work early

Juberoo

cornnifer wrote:

It seems to me, that for someone who insists, as you do, so assuredly that this life is it, there is absolutely nothing else, you are wasting alot of fucking time working for nothing. Literally donating, free of charge, much of your precious time to upper management that seeks only to exploit you and rip you off for your labor power.

YEAH thats right. Quit your jobs, apply for welfare and live it up baby!

PJPOWER

When I work over 40 hours a week, I count every minute of it. We do not get overtime, but we do get "flex" time or compensation time, so if I work 48 hours this week, I get to take Monday off, or a couple afternoons off. This seems pretty fair to me. My contract states I am being paid for working 40 hours a week, not 39, not 41. It wouldn't be fair for me to work 35 hours a week and expect to get paid for 40 and I don't see it as fair for them to expect you to work 45 hours without pay or compensation. Every career is different, though, I had an uncle who made about $1 million a year and even though his work week was supposed to be 40 hours a week, he put in 70 some weeks..............I think the $ amount can be the exception to my fairness rule...........he seems to have been treated pretty fairly in my opinion.

Ahnimus

PJPOWER wrote:

When I work over 40 hours a week, I count every minute of it. We do not get overtime, but we do get "flex" time or compensation time, so if I work 48 hours this week, I get to take Monday off, or a couple afternoons off. This seems pretty fair to me. My contract states I am being paid for working 40 hours a week, not 39, not 41. It wouldn't be fair for me to work 35 hours a week and expect to get paid for 40 and I don't see it as fair for them to expect you to work 45 hours without pay or compensation. Every career is different, though, I had an uncle who made about $1 million a year and even though his work week was supposed to be 40 hours a week, he put in 70 some weeks..............I think the $ amount can be the exception to my fairness rule...........he seems to have been treated pretty fairly in my opinion.

I'd say so too. I get paid a nice chunk to click on links for 8 hours. That's all I do, is click on links and submit tickets if they don't do what they should. The fact that I make more than restaurant employees, tells me I'm getting paid pretty good to do a lot of nothing. Coming in a few mins early is no big deal.

Ultimately they could just extend our shift by 15 mins and overlap them without any additional pay. Our shifts were extended once by 30 minutes without additional pay, though they did ask us first, we all agreed.

Restless Soul

It really annoys me when employers expect staff to do that bit more by coming earlier than their contracted time. In my old job, you started work at 9.30am but they really expected you to start at 9am (unpaid of course). In fact, it became kind of a standard for employees to come 15-30 mins earlier just to earn "brownie points" but if you actually came in on your normal time, ie: 9.30, you were made to feel like you're in the dog house, like you were late or something!

They never took it into account if you worked late though. I always came in at 9.30 but worked past my leaving time of 5.30 - i usually left at 6-6.30pm, but for some reason you never got brownie points for that. It's all stupid really.