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I'm all for overtime. I work in retail sales, and the salaried positions in sales are just not a good idea. I just got promoted to a management position which is still hourly, and I'm really unsure if I'm willing to move up to the next step in a year (salaried). Personally, OT is insurance that you get compensated fairly. If I work extra hours, I get paid extra. And because I get paid extra, the company has only so much incentive to push me to work extra. So I do OT when I want to, and have a life when I want to. That goes out the window with salary, everyone I see has a constant battle with just trying to not be forced to work extra. I also was a union employee and overall I think the hugely reduced role of unions is a disappointment. They have some downsides, but the upsides for the employees and for society I felt were pretty good.
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They are in their annual cost cutting mode where I work, and the big thing they came out with is "no overtime." Not literally absolute 0, but you better have a good reason. I'm enjoying having an extra 5-15 hours a week at home right now and waiting for the inevitable "why are sales down" questions.
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Mar 2, 2015 14:54
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SubjectVerbObject posted:Where I work, they changed us from hourly to salary with no OT with very little notice. We were told it was because we were working too much OT and they wanted to contain costs and give us time with out families. We were given a small raise to compensate for not having OT. My next step up management wise is salaried, and I better get a pretty a pretty good offer when I move p to it (that's 1-2 years away). Unless there is a huge income difference, I'd rather be capped OT working a Max of 40 hours a week rather than salaried and required to work a MINIMUM of 40 hours a week.
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Mar 2, 2015 16:03
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