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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day agoThe double-edged sword of western labor. Your options are:
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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.
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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’
klangcola@reddthat.com 7 hours ago
Is this an US-specific problem?
Monthly salaries with hourly compensation for overtime is a thing too
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
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.
Leomas@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
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.