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The media also doesn't focus on the inverse of wage theft: time theft, which is probably an order of magnitude larger than wage theft, if not more. edit: CBS r
by missedthecue 4y ago
The media also doesn't focus on the inverse of wage theft: time theft, which is probably an order of magnitude larger than wage theft, if not more.
edit: CBS reports wage theft at $50 billion a year while a 2007 study in the Kentucky CPA Journal puts time theft in the US at $400 billion per year.
- Firmwarrior 4y agoHaha, is "time theft" when you post on HackerNews while you're compiling instead of checking Slack and email?
- pclmulqdq 4y agoDon't "@" me. I swear my HN shitposting is marketing, or something.
- vuln 4y agoYeah I’m out here _evangelizing_ or some shit. For what I don’t know.
- missedthecue 4y agoLying on time sheets is usually what's meant by time theft, not checking HN while youre compiling.
- incone123 4y agoIn Barbara Ehrenrich's book Nickled and Dimed she got a job at a big box store (i think it was Walmart) and orientation included telling the workers that time theft was doing anything other than work while on the clock.
- fortran77 4y ago"But Wattabout ... Wage Theft" is just a standard trope-response on Hacker News whenever there's anything about "theft".
- raverbashing 4y agoThe same people who complain about "time theft" are the ones that try to skip on paying overtime, funnily enough Some people do slack off but 99% of the time "time theft" is the boss being unreasonable (I'll keep it polite for HN)
- newjersey 4y agoExactly. I am at the bottom of the totem pole as it goes. I am definitely not management. How am I “exempt”?
- lotsofpulp 4y agoFederal minimum exempt pay should be at least $150k if not $200k.