Come to public accounting. We've been working 55+ since January. Don't expect to get paid any extra though.... Welcome to the corporate world.
Come to public accounting. We've been working 55+ since January. Don't expect to get paid any extra though.... Welcome to the corporate world.
Get a 2nd job at a restaurant. You can work friday night, all day Saturday and Sunday if you want. Also, the harder you work and better you do usually means the more money you make. Capitalism at its finest!
Poop my pants wrote:
Get a 2nd job at a restaurant. You can work friday night, all day Saturday and Sunday if you want. Also, the harder you work and better you do usually means the more money you make. Capitalism at its finest!
Meh. Just buy some rental properties, or purchase a restaurant franchise. Then you're making money even when you're not working.
Hell of a Wednesday afternoon you got going for yourself chief!
SprintTriathlon wrote:
Why are you still working 40 hours in the US?? Nobody cares about you???
Unions?
35 hours is the standard in Europe, workers and companies are happy, and yes, we do pay tax, but the healtcare is free and very effective and good for all.
Your healthcare is not "free" you doofus. You pay for it with high tax rates that are spread widely across the population including the regressive VAT.
Capitalism Lulz wrote:
get rid of liberals wrote:
If it was up to me, I would work 65 hours a week. 10 hours a day, 13 out of 14 days. Very few employers allow hourly employees to work more than 40 hours due to laws that mandate 150% pay beyond that.
I would like to pay you $1 an hour for those 65 hours. Also, make more money. Since work is scarce, it shouldn't be hogged up by one person, so let's cap you at 20 hours a week at $1 an hour.
BTW, you are completely ignorant of labor history. Labor rules were imposed because workers were exploited. It's not in my to exploit you but it sure is the makeup of a lot of diehard capitalists. Remember, it was American executives who dreamed up gutting the working class and off-shoring their jobs for more money. It wasn't the labor movement that did. American executives simply bypassed minimum wage standards by going overseas where it was lower or nonexistent.
Also, remember, without the minimum wage and other labor rules, I could pay as little as $1 an hour. If I collude with other business owners, which is basically what mainstream economists do on behalf of business via the orthodoxy of macroeconomic teaching, then we can suppress your wage for nearly 50 years and gut the middle class. Oh wait a minute, this is exactly what has happened which is why poorly educated white males like you are dying younger, are sicker, aren't marrying, and are killing themselves at a higher rate than ever.
Collusion is illegal in that regard. If you think you could get away with paying $1/hr, you are ignorant.
Those economists seem to be losing since cities and states are raising their min wages and many companies are increasing wages.
get rid of liberals wrote:
If it was up to me, I would work 65 hours a week. 10 hours a day, 13 out of 14 days. Very few employers allow hourly employees to work more than 40 hours due to laws that mandate 150% pay beyond that. Supposedly the labor movement is doing hourly workers a huge favor by placing these constraints on our employers. All they're doing is forcing me to sit around for two days a week with nothing to do when I should be working and making more money. "Oh but some people have families and don't want to work more than 40 hours." -- then let them seek jobs that don't require them to work more than that. Let people decide for themselves how much they're willing to work.
get a job in investment banking. make mad skrilla and work those hours you so preciously desire
The Mooch wrote:
Meh. Just buy some rental properties, or purchase a restaurant franchise. Then you're making money even when you're not working.
Yeah, but the OP wants to work more hours.. so what fun is that!
get rid of liberals wrote:
If it was up to me, I would work 65 hours a week. 10 hours a day, 13 out of 14 days. Very few employers allow hourly employees to work more than 40 hours due to laws that mandate 150% pay beyond that. Supposedly the labor movement is doing hourly workers a huge favor by placing these constraints on our employers. All they're doing is forcing me to sit around for two days a week with nothing to do when I should be working and making more money. "Oh but some people have families and don't want to work more than 40 hours." -- then let them seek jobs that don't require them to work more than that. Let people decide for themselves how much they're willing to work.
If you worked 65 hour weeks for the same pay you'd complain you want to be able to work less or get paid more.
And, read some history books. Prior to labor laws you had people working in factories making 2-3 cents per hour and working 14 hour days. 100 degree days with no air conditioning. They'd work until exhaustion and still not have enough money to feed their families.
OP is onto something wrote:
I want dirty water like Flint.
I want cars that will kill me if I bump into something.
I want cars and trucks spewing poison.
I want my kids to die from tetanus and bleed out because defective playgrounds cut their arteries.
I want food to kill me because it's toxic.
I want the paint in my house to shorten my lifespan.
I want to breathe in asbestos because it's fun.
I want the sun to be blotted out from smokestacks.
I want zero parkland or open space, drill and mine everywhere.
I want the rivers to burn.
I want the ocean glowing green.
The ocean should be solid plastic, too.
I want to work 15 hours a day 7 days a week.
I want my kids to have to work, too.
I want to die at 40 because I'm worked to death.
I want my kids to have no life because they work starting at 5 years of age.
Pretty well done.
sbeefyk2 wrote:
get rid of liberals wrote:
If it was up to me, I would work 65 hours a week. 10 hours a day, 13 out of 14 days. Very few employers allow hourly employees to work more than 40 hours due to laws that mandate 150% pay beyond that. Supposedly the labor movement is doing hourly workers a huge favor by placing these constraints on our employers. All they're doing is forcing me to sit around for two days a week with nothing to do when I should be working and making more money. "Oh but some people have families and don't want to work more than 40 hours." -- then let them seek jobs that don't require them to work more than that. Let people decide for themselves how much they're willing to work.
If you worked 65 hour weeks for the same pay you'd complain you want to be able to work less or get paid more.
And, read some history books. Prior to labor laws you had people working in factories making 2-3 cents per hour and working 14 hour days. 100 degree days with no air conditioning. They'd work until exhaustion and still not have enough money to feed their families.
It's 2019 dude. Someone's economic situation 150 years ago is irrelevant to today's laws.
Hardloper wrote:
sbeefyk2 wrote:
If you worked 65 hour weeks for the same pay you'd complain you want to be able to work less or get paid more.
And, read some history books. Prior to labor laws you had people working in factories making 2-3 cents per hour and working 14 hour days. 100 degree days with no air conditioning. They'd work until exhaustion and still not have enough money to feed their families.
It's 2019 dude. Someone's economic situation 150 years ago is irrelevant to today's laws.
You're really naive. Plenty of companies would not spend money making their work places safe and tolerable if they could avoid the costs of doing so legally. And it's not at all uncommon to find salaried workers forced to put in more than 40 hours a week without added compensation.
Debs wrote:
And it's not at all uncommon to find salaried workers forced to put in more than 40 hours a week without added compensation.
So?
Hardloper wrote:
It's 2019 dude. Someone's economic situation 150 years ago is irrelevant to today's laws.
I honestly wouldn't expect anything less short-sighted from you. Damn, you're a talented at being a dumbazz.
Jamin by any other name wrote:
Hardloper wrote:
It's 2019 dude. Someone's economic situation 150 years ago is irrelevant to today's laws.
I honestly wouldn't expect anything less short-sighted from you. Damn, you're a talented at being a dumbazz.
You forgot your counterargument.
I have 5 jobs at this point.
I agree with this guy wrote:
+1
Also, if I want to work for less than minimum wage. I should be able to. Get rid of minimum wage laws. Let me work for what I want to work for.
You have quite a few options in the agricultural sector, jobs involving stoop labor that are minimum wage exempt. Strawberry picking, roguing, and corn detasseling come to mind in my area. I am sure you could negotiate an employer to get your hourly pay down quite low if you so chose. Also, there are any number of volunteer jobs paying zero dollars per hour that go begging. I am the medical director of a free clinic and we always have openings.
I was gonna say get a salary job. all
My husband does is work from sun up to sun down. He’s stressed af and miserable. I tell him to slow down and work less and he can’t help himself so it sounds like you’d enjoy that lifestyle.
General Tso wrote:
Banana Bread wrote:
I don't like the system either for a million different reasons. It is conformist and bureaucratic as fukk thanks to liberals/millennials. My pops used to work 80 hours a week in a steel mill which ended up bankrupt and had to leave him redundant thanks to stupid laws. The place was charged with violating some stupid laws. He struggled to find anything for a long time and even had to stand outside Home Depot for a while so people could give him manual work for the day.
My buddy grew up in a neighborhood of a city that had a bunch of steel pressing plants. My buddy has pictures of neighborhood functions where every adult male is disfigured. Every. single. one. Every adult male had disfigurements from the pressing machines. Prior to attending college my buddy thought it was normal for neighborhoods to look like the land of misfit toys.
Man, I'm glad OSHA exists.
Sounds exactly like where I grew up!
When I was little, in the late 70's, the grocery store parking lot was filled with permanently injured miners chatting with one another while their wives were inside shopping. (This is back-in-the-day when women didn't drive & their husbands took them everywhere.) But, this included my father who was injured in the mines when a catwalk gave way inside a the cleaning plant. He fell nearly three stories & nearly died. I was 9 years old.
In high school, a girl's father--who worked in the glass factory--fell into the molten glass & died. Yeah, in my hometown, her mom made her go to school the next day. Yep.
GO UNIONS! GO OSHA!
Hardloper wrote:
Debs wrote:
And it's not at all uncommon to find salaried workers forced to put in more than 40 hours a week without added compensation.
So?
So someone's economic situation from 150 years ago is still relevant today.
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