Comment on Do 9-5 jobs still exist in the U.S.?
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 months agoSalary workers aren’t generally paid for hours, but instead for the job.
Comment on Do 9-5 jobs still exist in the U.S.?
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 months agoSalary workers aren’t generally paid for hours, but instead for the job.
Zorque@kbin.social 5 months ago
So you're saying they should have worked less?
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It wasn’t a statement about more or less, but more flexible. The PO that came in at 5:01pm should have been approved, and the management shouldn’t have been so hardassed about being seated at your desk at exactly 7am.
Zorque@kbin.social 5 months ago
I mean... the PO shouldn't have come in at 5:01 if they wanted it approved that day. That's just rude.
I work in document control, so I'm sending documents between companies regularly. Often, at the end of the week someone will dump a 100+ document transmittal on us half an hour before the end of the day. And then they go home.
You bet your ass that shit is waiting til Monday.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh certainly! I’m not suggesting that its reasonable for someone to drop hours of work on your desk at the end of the day and expecting you to stay late to finish it.
This was more of a 2 minute task, and not even on a Friday. Office workers worked only the 7am-5pm, but hourly non-office workers had 3 shifts. So it wasn’t uncommon that large tasks for the non-officeworkers which might be done overnight went undone because the office worker didn’t do a 2 minute tasks. This had downstream impacts to deliveries and client reception.
In any other org I’ve worked in, the office worker would maybe stay until 5:09pm to kick the task forward for overnight completion and perhaps come in 10 minutes later the next day. In this org if the office worker came in 10 minutes later (even if they worked 10 minutes later) the office worker would be written up!