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If you are productively working more and as a result the company is earning more money, but the company management* believes that they do not need to increase your compensation in proportion to your extra work, then the company is taking advantage of you. If the company management give reasons such as "we can't afford to pay you more", then they are running the company badly, since this translates to "we're not charging enough to cover the costs of production". If the company is making more than a 0% net profit and yet the company management "cannot afford" to pay you overtime, then they are liars and you should unionise. The last job I had before this one was a temp gig which I took as a bridge between my horrible former career and my new awesome one. At one point I raised the possibility of becoming a full-time employee (as background info, in my department, all staff except the six project managers -- which means all staff actually doing the boots-on-the-ground work -- were temp staff). The manager said that if they were to make all the productive staff fulltimers, they would go under. I did respond to this with "then you're not charging enough", to which he didn't have a rebuttal. When your company's existence depends on screwing its staff as hard as possible in order to make money, it doesn't deserve to exists. Yes, I realise that makes me a Nazi fascist communist socialist tree-hugging hippie nogoodnik, but someone has to be. * I think it's important to use the phrase "company management" (or executives or whatever) and personal pronouns "they/them/etc." rather than "the company says it" or "the company did this" in order to remind people that there is no conscious "company" entity making market-optimal, invisible-free-hand-guided actions on its own -- it's a bunch of people who are deliberately taking actions to save money for them by taking it away from you, and who point to "the company" to deflect any attention on themselves. Weatherman fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Nov 23, 2014 |
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