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That's not true of all salaried positions. In my experience, it's the salaried positions that have flexible time, not the hourly ones.
by jpindar 8y ago
That's not true of all salaried positions. In my experience, it's the salaried positions that have flexible time, not the hourly ones.
- maxxxxx 8y agoWhen I work 13 hours 3 days in a row my employer still expects me to show up for the remaining 2 days of the week. If I had a fixed 40 hours week I would be done and could recover these 2 days. I also don't get more money for working more.
- jlarocco 8y agoSounds like a problem with your employer. None of mine have ever had a problem with me taking off early to make up for days I've worked longer hours. Have you talked to them about it?
- maxxxxx 8y agoI have talked about this. From my experience it's very common in tech to let people work longer without compensation in time or money.
- saiya-jin 8y agoBy your behavior you are putting your employer in a situation where he breaks the law. Mention this to your manager, companies are not above labor laws simply because "its IT, everybody does that". They can be sued easily by disgruntled employees, and for huge piles of cash. Not everybody does that, and if they do, there is appropriate compensation (cash, extra time off and/or both). Good companies simply don't, they realize you can easily walk away to next company. I never ever worked for an employer like that for example, and that's 15 years and 6 employers in 3 countries. You're selling yourself cheap. Have some dignity.
- Kevguy 8y agoA salaried person working 13 hours a day with no extra compensation is not breaking the law in the United States. I have never heard of a lawsuit about that that succeeded. Good companies do realize that making people work overtime consistently without reward is a bad idea, if for no other reason than the selfish one: your good employees will leave. I know a lot of companies that do it anyway because they either don't care or don't accept people are leaving because of the constant overtime. I also know people who have stayed at bad companies either because they don't want to let their team down or they just got used to the constant overtime and didn't realize how bad it was until they left. Or the simple fact that many people do not like change, and prefer the overtime they know rather than jumping to the unknown new job. Just because someone is working overtime without compensation doesn't mean they don't have dignity. There are many reasons to stay at a crap job (for a while, if you have to). Please don't insult others just because their life is worse than you have allowed your life to get. That being said, I agree with a few other posters - if you are consistently working 13 hour days, start looking for a new job. My rule of thumb is to spend one hour job hunting for every hour of required/expected overtime.
- jlarocco 8y agoI don't know the details of your situation, but if your employer doesn't require 13 hour days, don't do it voluntarily. To say tech companies "let people work longer without compensation" is kind of shirking responsibility for your actions. If they didn't ask you to work all night, but you did anyway, who's fault is that? Go home and contribute to an open source project or something. Unless you're at a tiny startup and getting tons of equity you're never going to be compensated for it, and it'll still be there tomorrow. And if they do require 13 hour days, leave. The market for devs is too good right now to tolerate that.