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VinegarChunks@lemmus.org 1 month agoSo I’m a salaried engineer and can’t be part of the movement?
The double-edged sword of western labor. Your options are:
Work hourly and get some middle manager rolling dice to see which hours/days you’re scheduled for every week, the day before the timesheet goes out.
Work salary and get sucked into late night deployments, lunch meetings, and assorted overtime projects you don’t receive pay for.
They catch ya comin’ and they catch ya goin’
Is this an US-specific problem?
Monthly salaries with hourly compensation for overtime is a thing too
I’ve never heard of a job that paid on those terms. Historically, you’ve had hourly contracts on a fixed schedule, so you were functionally guaranteed a minimum number of hours. But modern service workers operate under Zero Hours contracts that don’t guarantee any kind of minimum.
Are you in the US? Because that’s what they were asking. Around here monthly vage with an hourly bonus for working over time is standard.
I think their point is we should be part of the movement. Although, IMO we should also recognize that there are definitely chose who have it worse
Yeah, as an hourly engineer that’s how I feel. When I was salary I still needed my ass in a seat if I wanted to eat, even if not being nickel and dimed on time in theory was nice (they eventually did switch to having us punch a clock though)
while the comment stated A => B, you assumed the reciprocal B => A, thus making you wrong : you absolutely can be a salaried ergineer and be working class
What makes you think us salary slaves aren’t working class? I still have to punch a clock every day to get my salary….
Elmirador@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
If you work in order to actually be able to to live, eat, and have shelter, you are working class.