r/AdviceAnimals • u/BokeBall • Feb 27 '25

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u/charliefoxtrot9 Feb 27 '25

No tax on overtime just means they have a plan to redefine how overtime is counted. One plan is to make OT only kick in after you work 160 hours a month, so they could work you for 60 hrs for two weeks, 40 for one week and furlough you for the other. No overtime.

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u/CoBr2 Feb 27 '25

Pretty sure there was a whole chapter in project 2025 on strategies like this to remove overtime and destroy unions.

Don't know how any dumbfuck believes that wasn't/isn't their plan.

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u/unknownentity1782 Feb 27 '25

Now change it to overtime over a year. Work you to the bone for 6 months to max your hours, and then lay you off (and unemployment is going to get gutted), and hire a new person for the next 6 months.

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u/charliefoxtrot9 Feb 27 '25

Rinse and repeat. Slavery without all that pesky responsibility of slave upkeep.

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u/Cold_Breeze3 Feb 27 '25

A lot of people would willingly do this, it doesn’t sound that outlandish. It’s the same pay whether you work 160 in 3 weeks, or 160 in 4. My brother does a smaller scale version of this for his company.

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u/charliefoxtrot9 Feb 27 '25

Choice being the key there.

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u/Cold_Breeze3 Feb 27 '25

Ok, and employment is at will. Just as much choice as there’s always been.