Since when does them needing you to work overtime, mean you need to work overtime?
Since if you decline they fire you. Yeah, this doesn’t make sense since now they’re still out someone for that shift AND out other shifts. But managers aren’t logical or reasonable when they pull shit like this: they’re vindictive.
In their eyes, it’s more important to serve notice to the general workforce on what happens if you refuse versus the importance of any particular shift.
Luckily they can’t fire you for that in Germany. To fire you, they would have to sue you.
In most of the US you can be fired for basically any reason even down to they dislike the color of the car you drive.
In my US state, you can be fired for “no reason” also.
The US doesn’t have any real worker protections. And one political party in particular is trying their damnedest to remove the few we do.
“one political party in particular”
CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS. Don’t sugarcoat it, CALL THEM OUT BY NAME. Otherwise they’ll just pretend it’s not them and do their damndest to act like they’ve done nothing wrong.
Even the ones who aren’t actively protesting on behalf of the conservatives are still voting for conservatives, who end up making the claims that they can never produce sufficient evidence for.
Toxic work culture. Don’t comply and they’ll not only hold it against you but discriminate against you in the future
“sure boss, though my overtime pay just became 200%, I’m sure you understand”
COUGH COUGH COUGH we had a shift together, I think I’ve got what he has
Wtf Bob?! He got diagnosed with an Anus Infection.
“Well you’ve been riding all our asses, so who do you think it traces back to, Steve?”
But you’re gonna pay me for the overtime, right?
“lol no were gonna pull you off of another shift so that you don’t go over 40 hours”
Happy to help if the price is right, do I negotiate with you or HR?
Even more depressing when you think about how, overtime is extra money that they’re losing by making you work.
At my job (pizza place, so maybe bad example), we have effectively only 2 night time managers, which means at the end of the week, whoever has the most hours goes home first, so that franchisee doesn’t have to pay the extra money.
“so why not just close early if it costs owner too much to pay you?”
Well, because. Just because, that’s all. Last time I cut orders at 5-or-10-to-close, the next day our owner (who I usually only see twice a year for MAYBE 20mins) came in and said I’d be fired if it happened again.
People with money don’t give a single fraction of a flying freaky fuck about their employees. Unfortunately for me, I work in one of the (ten poorest) states in the US that enforces ‘right-to-work’ laws, which I recently learned, don’t mean that you have the right to work, but instead means my employer is under no legal or contractual obligation to recognize, let alone pay Union fees.
Unionizing isn’t illegal, but good luck finding anybody that will do anything pro-union in one of those places.
Crazy how businesses pull this shit. Yet where I work they won’t let us work overtime cause they don’t want to pay us. But then get shitty when the work is not done …
Anything… for a price.
The worst bit: “But hey, we’ll give you Tuesday off so you don’t ho over 40h for the week.”
Nah, Imma clock out at my normal time.
“Uhh . . . yeah, I’m gonna be leaving at 5, like it says on my schedule and since you’re the manager, you’re gonna need to manage your way out of this situation without me.”
I’m in management, if I need someone to stay late I’ll say please and ask, and if they say no, I respect it. I don’t expect anybody to work outside of their scheduled hours.
That’s class solidarity. None of us are owners, we are all the labor.
