phillaholic

While a problem, this one is covering high paid tech workers who are pulling $250,000 per job.

If the expectation is outlined at the beginning as the job monopolizing my time and me doing whatever work comes along when I’m on the clock, then that’s the job I took and I need to be available to them.

Yes. THAT is the expectation we are talking about. If a company doesn't expect that, then there is no issue.

in a lot of jobs the expectation is just to meet certain targets of work to be completed. If I meet those targets, the employer owes me the agreed upon wage.

Great. If that's what your employment agreement says there isn't a problem. Congrats on finding a white collar salaried job that involves no collaboration or expectations on availability.

If I pay the grocery store a dollar for an apple, am I entitled to as many apples as they can possibly deliver me? Obviously not.

That's akin to hourly pay. You work an hour you get $10. You buy an Apple you pay $1. Salary is like an all you can eat buffet. You pay $20 you eat 1 Apple, 2 Apples, 3 Apples, etc. But also there are rules; Can't take anything home, can't share your food with a non-paying person, you'll probably get cut off at some point if you eat too much or waste food etc.

If I pay a worker a dollar for a task, am I entitled to as many tasks as they can possibly deliver me?

I think this is the big misconception. You're describing contract work, not salaried employment.

If I have to wait for you to do something to do part of my job, and the reason I have to wait is you have another job, then that's a problem. The vast majority of salaried jobs involve collaboration.

Its this, and especially with WFH there are is a pretty large spectrum of "productivity" among users. Some people are much slower than others, but we don't fire them because of it. People that think it's ok to have 2 jobs at once as long as they "meet their expectations" seem to be applying hourly assembly line or warehouse performance metrics to much more subjective work. It just doesn't work that way. If my less productive employee does good work, albeit slower I don't think he should be fired. If I find out the reason he does it slower is he's working a second job while I wait for him, then that's a different story.

According to ADP, the DoL, and the FLSA you're wrong.

Can you require exempt employees to work certain hours? 1

Employers are free to create work schedules for exempt employees however they see fit as long as they comply with any state and local regulations that govern meals and breaks.

Does an exempt employee have to work 40 hours a week? 1

No, however, many businesses have company policies mandating a 40-hour workweek for exempt employees. Employers may take disciplinary action, including termination, against anyone who doesn’t fulfill that requirement, but they usually can’t deduct pay. Doing so might result in the employee no longer qualifying for the exemption.

Further you keep making comments about "fill the key responsibilities of your job description" like most workers have extremely specific job duties. This is not the case for salaried-exempt workers: 2

• primary duty must be managing the enterprise...department...or subdivision of the enterprise; OR
• primary duty includes the exercise of discretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance; OR
• primary duty must be the performance of work requiring advanced knowledge, defined as work which is predominantly intellectual in character and which includes work requiring the consistent exercise of discretion and judgment; AND The advanced knowledge must be in a field of science or learning; AND The advanced knowledge must be customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction.

It’s high time people pushed back on this bullshit. Most people in office jobs can do their jobs effectively in well under 40 hours.

This is a terrible hill to die on. By that logic, most office jobs can be outsourced to India for a third of the cost if all you do is check off a list. If Employers have to deal with people double-dipping, they'll pay a fraction of your salary for it.

A good manager understands that the true resource is employee morale, trust, and loyalty

It's a two way street. Employees hiding the fact that they are working a second job during the time they are suppose to be working for you is a breach of trust as well.

study after study after study shows nothing but positives both for employers and employees in more efficient and balanced work time structures than the current mass delusion standard.

Wait a minute, now you're trying to double-dip arguments! You can't sit there are argue that the 40 hour work week is bad and inefficient and then claim that a person should be able to work two jobs simultaneously like it wouldn't be even more inefficient or worse for work / life balance. It's absurd that you'd even say that. Your comments more and more are incoherent ramblings of someone who hasn't thought anything through and just wants to complain about work.

There isn’t a lot of room for discussion here from what I’ve seen. The demographic is very far-left to a fault. Those that are in white collar jobs should probably read their employment agreements, handbooks, etc. a lot of incorrect information floating around.

Letting TikTok win is not good. Unless something has changed, they pay shit to creators too.

“I was a female, alone in a secluded area of Central Park, with a man yelling at me and threatening me,” she wrote.

Christian...said, "Look, if you're going to do what you want, I'm going to do what I want, but you're not going to like it", and beckoned the dog toward him with a dog treat.

She didn't know what he was going to do to the dog or what he was feeding it, so I can see feeling threatened by the interaction. It's still her fault for clear racial emphasis on her police call, and for disobeying the leash law in the first place. It's hard to feel sorry for her if she can't seem to understand her mistake, but at the same time I've read the reddit comments and can't imagine what kind of hate she probably received, maybe still does, and not being able to hold a job over it is a lot. Situation sucks.

Christian apparently got his own bird watching show by National Geographic, so that's nice.

They want to get paid, I just don't think they see any competitor as a threat.