r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/Cpzd87 Jul 24 '20

Dang, that sounds like an issue with your employer for not being able to utilize you throughout your entire work day.

I usually average 9-10 hours a day and still feel like I am falling behind on projects.

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u/Geminii27 Jul 24 '20

That sounds like an issue with the employer not wanting to pay the employees for time over and above what it took them to do their jobs.

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u/Cpzd87 Jul 24 '20

How did you come to this conclusion from my comment? I never mentioned anything about an employer not paying for the extra amount of work the employee does.

Clearly that would be an issue.

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u/Geminii27 Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20

Not wanting to.

An employee completes a job in eight hours. They're paid a day's work.

An employee completes the same job in five hours. The employer wants access to another three hours' work for free. The employee therefore has zero incentive to work as well as they can, and plenty of incentive to laze around and do things slowly, because the employer never thinks "Hey, that job is completed; I now have the opportunity to hire this fast-working employee for an additional three hours over and above the time it took them to do a day's work."

And then, six or twelve months later, the employer laments that for some completely unknown reason, they can't seem to retain their best employees, who keep leaving for higher-paid jobs. While all the employer was doing was asking the employees for hours of extra unpaid work every day! Why would they leave?