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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.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fuck, you Americans are getting ripped off. Here the legal minimum is 2.25x pay for public holidays (Australia)

1.5x? Are ya serious? That's like the lowest tier of overtime. Or sunday penalty rates.

For real, I can't believe people aren't even getting that.

(Illegal underpayment still happening here, aside).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Even then, it's by state. Some states have no holiday pay.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I once worked a job where if I was five minutes late or had to leave early the shift before or the shift after a holiday I would forfeit my holiday pay. That's when I learned that holiday pay isn't guaranteed in the states. Never worked another holiday at that job again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

That's rough .

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Only Rhode island and Massachusetts have it for hourly workers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most industry awards actually make it 250% of base rate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

I guess not retail, which I randomly plucked out to get some numbers. I also thought 2.5x ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 118 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Had a (roughly) similar experience when I used to work for a construction company. Once, a job was behind schedule, and they asked us to voluntarily work on a Saturday. Virtually everyone did, because working on a weekend got you time and a half pay.

Instead of a full day, though, they sent us home at lunchtime. Nobody was expecting that. One guy summed it up pretty well: “I got up at 6 AM on a Saturday to make less than I did yesterday? This is bullshit!”

After that, whenever our bosses asked if we’d come in on a Saturday, someone asked if it would be a full day or a half day. When our bosses said “I don’t know” (which is what they said every time) nobody came in.

They got away with exploiting us once, but completely screwed themselves in the long term. I was (and still am) very proud of my coworkers for continuing to hold management accountable for their decisions.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Huh! Huh! Huh!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Autocorrect typo for “time”.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

"It's pernounced TYna. rhymes with vagyna!"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That llama from Napoleon Dynamite?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

tina, eat the FOOD! *fling!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I hated this movie when it came out, rewatching it with my 10 year old was fucking hilarious. he was in tears at Tina's part.

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Everyone focuses on the typo when dude did an awesome thing. Reddit doesn't allow title edits and GBoard is shit at producing the words you want, and then dude gets a bunch of Tina jokes.

They got screwed thrice; by their boss, by Reddit, and by their keyboard

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (13 children)

Yeah, but they chose to use Reddit and gboard. Like 2/3 self-inflicted.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

I mean, blame Gboard all you want, they didn't proofread something that can't be edited later

That's 100% on them and they deserve the Tina jokes

They also deserve praise for what they did in the OP

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A half of tina is a pretty decent chunk of meth, you probably don't need that much.

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[–] n3m37h 143 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Tina and a half? Do people not proof read?

[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh it's meant to be "time and a half". Took me a while!

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There Is No Alternative. Tina.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Speaking of people who get exploited for inadequate pay ...

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[–] Spookyghost 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Mistypes drive engagement.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The shit that is done nowadays to farm engagement is ridiculous.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, this is correct. They get paid in methamphetamines

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I've never gotten Tina and a half... 😔

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Starbucks may deserve all the stick that they get for their labor practices, but here in Canada on holidays they pay double time and a half (or about CAD $50/hour).

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

Are they staying open because there's marketing value in being open on a holiday, or because there's business as usual money to be made. If it's not for some extra marketing purposes, this just lays bare how much more money they could be paying folks and still remain profitable.

Overtime and holiday pay was meant to disincentivize manufacturing companies from overworking their people and not letting them spend time doing frivolous things like being with family on holidays. The difference between the cost of labor and the value of labor was so small back then (after decades of negotiating, union action, and bloodshed) that a simple 1.5x was enough to disincentivize it under most circumstances. It's so vast now for the service industry that they are willing to pay 2.5 times as much.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

SOB's. Thinking they are entitled to have poor Tina... And the half bit is extra worrying.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Damn I thought this was my local grocer for a quick second.

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