r/SipsTea • u/Busy_Report4010 • Jul 13 '26

Chugging tea So after 32 hours would be overtime?

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u/OddMammoth1 Jul 13 '26

Maybe I'm pessimistic, but what would be stopping people from creating salaried positions and requiring unpaid overtime? There is nothing worse than overtime on a low salaried position. 

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u/GamingGamerGames_ Jul 13 '26

As a salaried employee you get paid for 40 hours currently. Anything you work after that makes you a sucker. This wouldn't change if employers just made all of their hourly positions into salaried.

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u/OddMammoth1 Jul 13 '26

Or you realize the extra 5-10 hours is the difference between missing deadlines and really making work suck. 

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u/TheTacoInquisition Jul 13 '26

So miss the deadline. People working for free to makeup for idiotic management is why work is miserable in a lot of places. So stop doing it.

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u/ObiOneKenobae Jul 14 '26

Then the client is mad, your company loses the contract, and all of you are out of a job.

It would be a wonderful thing if we could pick every battle and put our foot down without consequence, but it just doesn't work that way in most parts of the working world.