Comment on What is wage theft exactly?
Vespair@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Has your boss ever said something to you to the effect of “Hey I know you already clocked out but you forgot to do ___; can you knock that out for me real fast before you go home?”
If so, you’ve been the victim of wage theft. Wage theft isn’t not making the whole sum of the value you bring in to the company, it’s not getting any portion of the sum for which you are legally and ethically entitled to.
can you knock that out for me real fast
Yes, that’s wage theft, but I’m likely going to do that thing. But I would do such a thing with the expectation that I get my back scratched as well. Forgiveness for being late, fucking something up, whatever. In no case am I working more than 15 minutes without punching back in.
But if I don’t have that sort of relationship with my boss, or it’s a shitty company, hell no.
Correct. This is very situational also. I’m salary, my boss is great, if I have to do work on the weekend, like a site visit, he usually venmos me $2-300 on the spot. If he asks me to do something outside normal hours, or maybe even outside our work scope, 99% of the time it’s a yes. We’re a pretty solid group, we scratch each other’s backs for the sake of the clients in most cases. It all evens out in the end.
TooLazyDidntName@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Cries in salaried worker noises