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Please don’t undersell the value of your work. It is worth something, and don’t let other people make money out of your overtime without compensation. In many c

Please don’t undersell the value of your work. It is worth something, and don’t let other people make money out of your overtime without compensation. In many countries it is even illegal to work more hours without compensation. The reason is that even if you personally enjoy it, there are more of us that would prefer to spend more time with our families, playing minecraft, practicing fencing, programming our own Arduino, or at the pub. People have literally died fighting for our rights for free time. If you work overtime without compensation—even if you enjoy it—it cheapens the work for the rest of us. And the rest of us don’t have millions of dollars to spear when our compensations get taken away from us, all we have is our work and solidarity with our common workers. Please consider that before you clock in at 2AM to write code so that your bosses can make more money. Your work, your body, and our solidarity is worth more then that.

jpttsn 6y ago
Can’t your solidarity just pay him/her (a higher wage) to do nothing instead of working for the bosses? If your own math checks out, that should be a win-win.
- runarberg 6y ago
  I’m not sure how you’ve arrived at this conclusion from my post. Perhaps you have been reading other posts and just left your comment here as a catch all answer to all of them, or perhaps you’ve misunderstood my point. I’ll start by clarifying: I’ve never said GP can just stop doing work. What I’m iterating on is that their work is worth something, and their overtime work is worth more. They should not be doing overtime work unless they get fair compensation. Now that that is cleared, I’m gonna assume you are answering some of my other posts where I talk repeatedly about solidarity. My call for solidarity is a plead to not work overtime without compensation because it cheapens the work for the rest of us. I’m asking GP (and others on this thread) to not give their bosses free labor because I don’t want my bosses to demand free labor from me. You see solidarity is needed because if most workers our industry gives free labor, then I can’t be expected not to, I’ll just get fired. There is no win-win in a class struggle. For us workers to win, our bosses must loose. Past labor activists have fought hard to give us our benefits which include paid overtime. If we don’t use it, we will loose it. 1-0 for our bosses. However if we use it, and get paid overtime: 0-1 for us and the struggle continues.
  - jpttsn 6y ago
    To worker W it is worth $10 extra to work overtime. But to the solidarity S, this cheapens the labor by $100. Therefore the solidarity S can pay W $11 to not work, and it’s a win win.

jpttsn 6y ago

Can’t your solidarity just pay him/her (a higher wage) to do nothing instead of working for the bosses? If your own math checks out, that should be a win-win.

runarberg 6y ago
I’m not sure how you’ve arrived at this conclusion from my post. Perhaps you have been reading other posts and just left your comment here as a catch all answer to all of them, or perhaps you’ve misunderstood my point. I’ll start by clarifying: I’ve never said GP can just stop doing work. What I’m iterating on is that their work is worth something, and their overtime work is worth more. They should not be doing overtime work unless they get fair compensation. Now that that is cleared, I’m gonna assume you are answering some of my other posts where I talk repeatedly about solidarity. My call for solidarity is a plead to not work overtime without compensation because it cheapens the work for the rest of us. I’m asking GP (and others on this thread) to not give their bosses free labor because I don’t want my bosses to demand free labor from me. You see solidarity is needed because if most workers our industry gives free labor, then I can’t be expected not to, I’ll just get fired. There is no win-win in a class struggle. For us workers to win, our bosses must loose. Past labor activists have fought hard to give us our benefits which include paid overtime. If we don’t use it, we will loose it. 1-0 for our bosses. However if we use it, and get paid overtime: 0-1 for us and the struggle continues.
- jpttsn 6y ago
  To worker W it is worth $10 extra to work overtime. But to the solidarity S, this cheapens the labor by $100. Therefore the solidarity S can pay W $11 to not work, and it’s a win win.