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Your time is worth less, and to make up for it, the companies are allowing people to work more hours. Nobody is holding a gun to anyone's head and forcing them to work more hours.
Everyone has a choice, so knock the pity party crap off. When you are ready to grow spine and fight for what is perceived as yours, you might get it.
Indirectly companies kind of are though.. I have had bosses tell me, to justify paying you salary you are REQUIRED to work extra hours.
And if you refuse, you won't last long in today's private sector. They got line of 100 people just waiting to take your job. And companies don't give a **** about turnover rates, low employee morale, low worker disengagement.
Upper management only cares about the bottom line, and a crew underneath making them happy and look good. Thats all that matters. The employees come LAST On the list.
Indirectly companies kind of are though.. I have had bosses tell me, to justify paying you salary you are REQUIRED to work extra hours.
And if you refuse, you won't last long in today's private sector. They got line of 100 people just waiting to take your job. And companies don't give a **** about turnover rates, low employee morale, low worker disengagement.
Upper management only cares about the bottom line, and a crew underneath making them happy and look good. Thats all that matters. The employees come LAST On the list.
Yes, because I don't work in the private sector
Like I said, you are free to choose to work for these people, if that's the mentality you would like to perpetuate.
In an employer's market (which is what we have today), the employees don't have that much bargaining power or leverage. Employer's know this too so they exploit it to no end. Its not like back in the day when you could leave an employer and later that day have a nice new job lined up with good paying benjamins.
The power is completely gone from the employee's hand. Sure you can leave, then spend the next few years looking for a good paying job and in the meantime have to make ends meet working at some dead end job somewhere until you find something good.
If only it was so easy to just bounce and find an as good or better paying job with benefits, I would have been gone a LONG time ago.
Thats not even to mention, so many employees just keep the interviewees on a string playing mind games and dragging them along in the hiring process for MONTHS.
There are more candidates than there are job openings now. Until things switch where there plentiful job openings and the boomers start retiring (and the companies don't just do away with the positions and just throw the responsibilities onto someone already there, were gonna be at the mercy of the employer
In an employer's market (which is what we have today), the employees don't have that much bargaining power or leverage. Employer's know this too so they exploit it to no end. Its not like back in the day when you could leave an employer and later that day have a nice new job lined up with good paying benjamins.
The power is completely gone from the employee's hand. Sure you can leave, then spend the next few years looking for a good paying job and in the meantime have to make ends meet working at some dead end job somewhere until you find something good.
If only it was so easy to just bounce and find an as good or better paying job with benefits, I would have been gone a LONG time ago.
Thats not even to mention, so many employees just keep the interviewees on a string playing mind games and dragging them along in the hiring process for MONTHS.
There are more candidates than there are job openings now. Until things switch where there plentiful job openings and the boomers start retiring (and the companies don't just do away with the positions and just throw the responsibilities onto someone already there, were gonna be at the mercy of the employer
Here is the kicker.....i bet those salaried employees are not telling you about their 20 hour workweeks where they get paid full time for part time hours.
As an exempt employee, you are paid to "get the job" done...
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That is just an excuse. An employer can and should hire more employees if getting the job done requires employees to work long hours as a lifestyle. Again, I am not talking about occasionally putting in long hours just before a deadline, or for an emergency, or when a coworker is unable to work for whatever reason.
It's not an excuse, it's called reality. Companies are forcing their employees to do more with less. When someone gets fired or laid off, the rest of the employees have to pick up the slack. They're not going to hire someone else if they can get everyone else to work an extra 5-10 hrs per week unpaid because they're on salary.
That's what being salaried means, it means you are paid for your work, NOT for your time. If you could get all your work done in 30 hours a week, you'd have a pretty easy job. But most companies are out to maximize their profit... which means that they'll get rid of some people and suddenly to get all your work done, you are working 9-10 hours a day doing all your old work, plus a share of the work from the employees who are gone.
Well MIT guy, I work at a place that is affiliated with MIT and there are some hourly positions here. I can assure you they are most definitely professional positions.
I have a Masters degree from MIT, but I do not work for MIT. So how is your post relevant to me?
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