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[firecat]

"Altering of Worker Time Cards Spurs Growing Number of Suits" (New York Times article, free registration required):

Rosann Wilks, who was an assistant manager at a Pep Boys in Nashville, said she was fired in 2001 after refusing to delete time. She said her district manager told her, "Under no circumstances at all is overtime allowed, and if so, then you need to shave time." [...] Bill Furtkevic, Pep Boys' spokesman, said his company did not tolerate deleting time. "Pep Boys' policy dictates, and record demonstrates, that any store manager found to have shaved any amount of employee time be terminated," he said.

And so on...

Comments

[mittelbar.livejournal.com]

That does it! I'm going to emigrate to China and get *real* work for *honest* wages.

[kimberly-a.livejournal.com]

I used to have a boss a lot like that. Not quite so bad, but similar. She had a policy of "forced comp time" (not her words, of course). We had to work as long as necessary to get projects out (this was in book publishing), but we were not permitted to count anything as overtime. So everything over 40 hours was considered "comp time" ... meaning that we got to take it as additional vacation time ... when she permitted us to do so. And this "comp time" was not time-and-a-half, of course, even when people worked 80 hours in one week. Nifty way to avoid paying overtime.

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

That was always the unwritten policy in my various departments at UCB, as well. Very annoying.

[usqueba.livejournal.com]

If I had a nickle for every time I heard about a company having X policy (off the books, naturally) but saying publicly "that's totally not our policy" I'd be SO rich!

[firecat]

And I bet the people they fire as sacrifices to the "public" policy could use those nickels.

masters and slaves

[tedesson.livejournal.com]

I was reminded of slaves supervising slaves.. It's totally disgusting.

Re: masters and slaves

[firecat]

Yeah. The more I understand about corporate America (well, corporate in-general), the more I am convinced we haven't ever left the feudal age.

masters and slaves

[tedesson.livejournal.com]

I'm reading The Corporation (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743247442/qid=1081199284/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-9089301-9659927?v=glance&s=books).

I haven't gotten very far yet, but it's quite interesting.

Re: masters and slaves

[firecat]

Looks good. I'll see if the library has it.

[weirdodragoncat.livejournal.com]

At my job, our manager has gotten rather insistent about no overtime. We've gotten lectures about leaving at our scheduled time but at the same time we're told that we need to get our work done before we leave. No win situation.
My husband has also dealt with that at his job. Even worse though is that his company has pay caps on certain positions within the company. He has long since reached the pay cap for Shift supervisor and now cannot get any more raises. I don't know if this is legal or not. At the very least, its unethical. Corporate America is severe suckage!