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Given that chauffeuring is driving and we were driving before Uber existed, it seems strange that people expect compensation when driving for Uber and count it
by yabadabadoes 7y ago
Given that chauffeuring is driving and we were driving before Uber existed, it seems strange that people expect compensation when driving for Uber and count it as part of their labor time?
- thaumasiotes 7y agoTry to make the correspondences in your supposed analogy explicit. I'll wait. My parent comment is not complaining about excessive labor time. He's complaining about being on call. Is it strange that people expect compensation for being on call? That depends on what you're willing to consider "compensation". No one is clocked in at an hourly rate while on call because the labor laws prohibit that, but that's an artifact. On-call positions are viewed as more undesirable than otherwise and pay compensation accordingly.
- yabadabadoes 7y agoWe all have personal lives where we do things employers would pay for. It doesn't follow from that that employers demanding constant availability is nothing new, we still have those personal lives, so this isn't a swap of fungible work. Even if it were, we aren't required to deal with professional bullshit in personal driving or family emergencies.