Work From Home is great, just don’t do WFH as extra work, if you work from home it is work and you count your hours.
If your company is making you work overtime, unpaid, you can file a complaint and leave, let’s not everyone be so desperate to work that we give employers leverage to rape us even harder than they already are.
Unfortunately, if you work in the US, you are salaried (i.e. paid a fixed wage, not by hours worked) and make more than $684 per week (which would be very hard to survive on), the concept of overtime basically doesn’t exist.
My company could order me tomorrow to work 80 hours next week and there’s not much I could really do about that.
If you live in a state where employment is “at-will” or “right-to-work” (which is actually the opposite of what it sounds like), they can just get rid of you without cause.
I am lucky to have a boss who functions as a shield from all bullshit coming from above him. I refer to him jokingly as our “shit-shield” haha. He regularly goes to bat for us, but most people are not so lucky.
Work From Home is great, just don’t do WFH as extra work, if you work from home it is work and you count your hours.
If your company is making you work overtime, unpaid, you can file a complaint and leave, let’s not everyone be so desperate to work that we give employers leverage to rape us even harder than they already are.
Unfortunately, if you work in the US, you are salaried (i.e. paid a fixed wage, not by hours worked) and make more than $684 per week (which would be very hard to survive on), the concept of overtime basically doesn’t exist.
My company could order me tomorrow to work 80 hours next week and there’s not much I could really do about that.
If you live in a state where employment is “at-will” or “right-to-work” (which is actually the opposite of what it sounds like), they can just get rid of you without cause.
I am lucky to have a boss who functions as a shield from all bullshit coming from above him. I refer to him jokingly as our “shit-shield” haha. He regularly goes to bat for us, but most people are not so lucky.
95% of the world is safe from having to work in America.