Judge blocks Obama overtime rule, putting it in jeopardy
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Re: Judge blocks Obama overtime rule, putting it in jeopardy
#2I don't know how businesses get away without paying overtime. My life is finite. My work hours are finite. If you want more hours out of me, you pay for them.
Re: Judge blocks Obama overtime rule, putting it in jeopardy
#3People keep talking about how Trump's election was about winning the white working class. We'll see how interested he is in their right to fair wages.
Re: Judge blocks Obama overtime rule, putting it in jeopardy
#4I don't know how businesses get away without paying overtime. My life is finite. My work hours are finite. If you want more hours out of me, you pay for them.
Businesses pay for the overtime, but not at 150% of the base rate.
Re: Judge blocks Obama overtime rule, putting it in jeopardy
#5People keep talking about how Trump's election was about winning the white working class. We'll see how interested he is in their right to fair wages.
Trump's not even in office and he's getting blamed already. This was a judge who made the ruling. Not Trump.
Re: Judge blocks Obama overtime rule, putting it in jeopardy
#6I don't know how businesses get away without paying overtime. My life is finite. My work hours are finite. If you want more hours out of me, you pay for them.
I don't know. I kind of like being exempt. If I get my work done early and I decide the take the afternoon off, my paycheck is the same.
That said I'm lucky and my company freely comps additional paid time off when I start working more than 40 hours per week.
Re: Judge blocks Obama overtime rule, putting it in jeopardy
#7People keep talking about how Trump's election was about winning the white working class. We'll see how interested he is in their right to fair wages.
The election was about electing a white racist bygot. Everything else they say it was about is just deflection. He could have defrauded students, assaulted woman, have a wife pose in pseudo lesbian porn pictures, use his charity for personal expenses and he still would have gotten elected. Ho wait...
Edit: At least the white nationalist guys admit why they like trump so much.
Re: Judge blocks Obama overtime rule, putting it in jeopardy
#8I don't know how businesses get away without paying overtime. My life is finite. My work hours are finite. If you want more hours out of me, you pay for them.
I don't know. I kind of like being exempt. If I get my work done early and I decide the take the afternoon off, my paycheck is the same. That said I'm lucky and my company freely comps additional paid time off when I start working more than 40 hours per week.
A minor point, but this rule was to help others who don't have your kind of work to have some protections.
Re: Judge blocks Obama overtime rule, putting it in jeopardy
#9I don't know how businesses get away without paying overtime. My life is finite. My work hours are finite. If you want more hours out of me, you pay for them.
Businesses pay for the overtime, but not at 150% of the base rate.
This is more about which salaried employees are exempt, that is they don't get overtime. The theory is if you are pulling an oar then, you get overtime if you are hourly or yearly paid. If you are in charge of the ship then you don't have to get overtime.
The problem was the law set a fixed annual income as the test for exemption and this got eroded away by inflation. The Obama rule was an attempt to restore the original intent of the law.
Re: Judge blocks Obama overtime rule, putting it in jeopardy
#10I don't know how businesses get away without paying overtime. My life is finite. My work hours are finite. If you want more hours out of me, you pay for them.
I don't know. I kind of like being exempt. If I get my work done early and I decide the take the afternoon off, my paycheck is the same. That said I'm lucky and my company freely comps additional paid time off when I start working more than 40 hours per week.
People talk about "getting their work done" as if an equal amount of work were doled out every day to each worker and getting it done were a "you eat what you kill" result of being highly productive. Is this work-assignment principle common? I could see why a manager might distribute work this way, but I've never seen it actually happen -- it has always been "oh great, you finished early today, you'll have twice as much work tomorrow."
The optimistic explanation is that I haven't found a good manager + workplace yet and I should keep looking. The pessimistic explanation is that "getting your work done" is a sign of success at the game of politics on one hand and masterful framing on the other, rather than a result of skillful software engineering.
I'm right out of school, I've only had one job, so I don't have a very good sample to make up my own mind from. I'd appreciate hearing opinions on the matter.