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Does she work more than 40 hours / week? If so, she very likely gets paid 1.5x for any hours worked above 40. Do you think Apple and Foxconn are paying Indian

Does she work more than 40 hours / week? If so, she very likely gets paid 1.5x for any hours worked above 40. Do you think Apple and Foxconn are paying Indian women time and a half for hours above 40? That said, I'm nearly 100% certain that these women would rather have these jobs working in a clean facility than the alternative.

cornholio 4y ago
They have 48 h weeks and the ability to add an extra 50 hours per month. There's a name for places with a 60 hour work week: they are called sweat shops.
- pb7 4y ago
  Someone tell the people working at startups.
  - cornholio 4y ago
    That's very different: startupers are generally capitalists, they either own the company or have vigorous stock compensation. They don't rent their work to scrape a meager existence, they compound their capital with the expectation of a large payoff and generally have the option of a job.
spicybright 4y ago
Although it's not great to need to work that much, you can make absolute bank doing overtime. My mom's a nurse and occasionally gets called in out of the blue if there's shortages. If she agrees, she can get x2 to sometimes even x3 depending on what time and day of the year it is. As much of a drag it can be getting woken up to work, she still gets excited when it happens because of how good the pay is.
- groffee 4y ago
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  - steve_adams_86 4y ago
    Yes, I have a feeling the only people making decent money are those who are difficult to replace. Everyone else, well, they will readily be swapped out. They have no agency or power.
  - dang 4y ago
    You can't post nationalistic slurs to HN. Since you've broken the site guidelines repeatedly elsewhere and ignored our requests to stop, I've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

cornholio 4y ago

They have 48 h weeks and the ability to add an extra 50 hours per month. There's a name for places with a 60 hour work week: they are called sweat shops.

pb7 4y ago
Someone tell the people working at startups.
- cornholio 4y ago
  That's very different: startupers are generally capitalists, they either own the company or have vigorous stock compensation. They don't rent their work to scrape a meager existence, they compound their capital with the expectation of a large payoff and generally have the option of a job.

spicybright 4y ago

Although it's not great to need to work that much, you can make absolute bank doing overtime. My mom's a nurse and occasionally gets called in out of the blue if there's shortages. If she agrees, she can get x2 to sometimes even x3 depending on what time and day of the year it is. As much of a drag it can be getting woken up to work, she still gets excited when it happens because of how good the pay is.

groffee 4y ago
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- steve_adams_86 4y ago
  Yes, I have a feeling the only people making decent money are those who are difficult to replace. Everyone else, well, they will readily be swapped out. They have no agency or power.
- dang 4y ago
  You can't post nationalistic slurs to HN. Since you've broken the site guidelines repeatedly elsewhere and ignored our requests to stop, I've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.