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If it so the work and you don't pay me, you've stolen my time. It's absolutely theft.
by sdenton4 5y ago
If it so the work and you don't pay me, you've stolen my time. It's absolutely theft.
- burntoutfire 5y agoAnd if you make me love you and don't love me back, you've stolen my heart... The OP was specifically asking about precise definitions, not metaphors like "stolen time".
- nwiswell 5y agoAnd if you loaf around at work and still punch the timecard, should they haul you off to prison for that too?
- whateveracct 5y agoThey still spent their time at work. Not loafing at home. Don't like what you got out of that time? Pay up and fire them so you don't waste any more money.
- nwiswell 5y agoOK, fair enough: should buddy punching be a criminal offense? Hopefully our jails have room for 16% of the US hourly workforce.
- whateveracct 5y agoThis question seems to stem from some assumption that the employer-employee relationship is perfectly symmetrical and therefore both sides should be litigated the same. Employers should get prosecuted harsher because they have the power.