Seeing this post made me flash back to how often wage theft happened to me during holidays as a teenager.
4th of July, New Year's... Didn't even know about time and a half.
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2025
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I guess it's a matter of perspective? I personally would be happy to work half a day and get paid at a better rate than I normally would even if it was for a short period. Assuming I wasn't spending an hour commuting to work or something.
Edit: Who's the grumpy ass who's downvoting me for sharing a personal opinion? I'm not even judging OP or anything.
in construction you're always at least an hour away.
it's about the trust. mgmt said, "you want to work tomorrow?" implying it as a full day. they then turned around and doubled down and kept lying to them.
no, if your employer does this, they have zero investment in their own workforce and will have zero problems firing the lot when it's convenient.
Not a matter of perspective. If someone offers me a day but only gives me half a day, they fucked me over. It's not just the money, but also the ability to do other things that afternoon, because they were dishonest.
When its your choice, yeah - it's a matter of personal preference. But when it's like "hey surprise, you're not getting the work you thought you were getting" - that's not so cool.
Yeah, I can understand that perspective. My problem was that it was both dishonest and insulting. And yes, the commute was about an hour. I would have rather slept late. That’s what weekends are supposed to be for.
People would need to turn down or cancel other work opportunities that day, or at the very least miss other scheduled plans or errands... they should have been upfront about it.