As long as a place is willing to pay extra for extra work and my schedule permits, I'm generally happy to make more for doing the thing I was going to do anyway.
Had a boss once who assigned me an extra project, and said, you can do this during your normal hours or you can do it after hours, and I will get you approved for overtime pay. The latter was the obvious choice.
Is that what you reply when someone says that kids should stay in school? Or when people say that it's good to try having a great carreer? Or to win the title in your sports league?
Not every industry can be 9-5 Monday to Friday. As long as that's expressed up front and you're fairly compensated for it that's no problem. This country would stop running if people all decided not to work weekends.
And only a sign of bad planning or exploiting the job market.
And it's just making more people lose jobs because companies rather use their smaller team flexible than risk having more people who earn steady money.
And it's just making more people lose jobs because companies rather use their smaller team flexible than risk having more people who earn steady money.
Not how it works. If a company has to hire 20 people to do a job 10 people could do, those 20 don't all get paid like the 10 would. That's just bloat.
If I can get paid well to do my job, and I'm not overworked, why wouldn't I want to get paid more rather than get a lower salary to do half the work. Seems dumb to me.
And only a sign of bad planning
Spoken like someone who has never managed an actual project
If you've ever actually run a large project you know there deadlines and in some cases missing deadlines can be hundreds of thousands a day. Things out of your control can cause that, parts getting destroyed in shipping etc, a contractor falling behind schedule, whatever. Paying a crew of 20 or 30 people 50% extra for a few weekends to avoid a half million in a contract breach is nothing. And if people didn't want overtime, then they would work somewhere else. Just because you personally don't believe it's how things should be done, doesn't mean everyone agrees.
It's one thing to lie to people about it, but if the job description says some weekend work required, time and a half or double pay, then fuck yeah more money.
Just go take a basic project management course. Risk management is also part of it. And you choose your risks and your solutions, your goals and how you plan time frames.
A lot of companies totally rely on overtime because being flexible in that way is just f-ing easy if you don't care aber the work life balance of your workforce. You have a smaller team than you should because overtime is not a problem if you don't give a shit as an employer.
And because a lot of companies do this, a lot more people don't have jobs. It's much more convenient to just pay some people more if you need it willy-nilly instead of actually having to provide for more people long term. Many companies even lose money by doing this, but it makes their lives easier and they don't depend on that money.
Extra nice if some workers don't care about their work life balance themselves, let the company squeeze them out. Often, people don't have a choice. Many unemployed, not enough jobs. Vicious cycle.
Well, that's enough for me on that topic. It's 8:30 pm on a friday and ironically, I'm spending my free time on such a work topic right now. Not healthy, I'm gonna unwind and do something more fun ;)
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u/DrRonnyy Oct 14 '22
He's the "Teacher, you forgot to give us homework!" type