I think it’s hard to dig yourself out of this hole unless you’ve got early retirement on the horizon. The more you work, the less of an outside life you have, and the less you feel compelled to focus on anything but work, rinse and repeat. Your friend probably doesn’t have anything to look forward to IRL, so might as well make more money.
Oh wow, that is horrible. I know people that talk exactly like that w/r/t wanting to “further their career” etc, but I guess the “announcement” part at the end doesn’t make as much sense in that context.
If it’s anything less than the 1.5x overtime rate for any time beyond 40 hours, then he’s also planning to violate Federal labor law.
I strongly suspect this dweeb does not understand that the Federal minimum for overtime pay is neither optional nor negotiable, or he is vainly hoping that his employees don’t.
If this company is in the US, overtime isn’t mandatory for all job categories. If they’re on a salary or some other excepted position (can’t remember if there are other excepted categories), then overtime pay isn’t required by law.
I was just pointing out a caveat to the comment I replied to. We don’t know the entire context here one way or another (e.g. Is the owner talking about hourly employees or possibly offering pay incentives to salaried employees to work overtime?).
I think it’s hard to dig yourself out of this hole unless you’ve got early retirement on the horizon. The more you work, the less of an outside life you have, and the less you feel compelled to focus on anything but work, rinse and repeat. Your friend probably doesn’t have anything to look forward to IRL, so might as well make more money.
Buuut… His workers do. Empathy is caring/taking action about something even if it doesn’t personally affect you.
He’s not talking about a 6-day workweek for himself.
Oh wow, that is horrible. I know people that talk exactly like that w/r/t wanting to “further their career” etc, but I guess the “announcement” part at the end doesn’t make as much sense in that context.
Strongly suspect that “a % of the overtime rate” is a lot less than 100%, too.
If it’s anything less than the 1.5x overtime rate for any time beyond 40 hours, then he’s also planning to violate Federal labor law.
I strongly suspect this dweeb does not understand that the Federal minimum for overtime pay is neither optional nor negotiable, or he is vainly hoping that his employees don’t.
If this company is in the US, overtime isn’t mandatory for all job categories. If they’re on a salary or some other excepted position (can’t remember if there are other excepted categories), then overtime pay isn’t required by law.
Yes, but if they’re salaried no one would be talking about overtime in the first place. There’s no middle ground, here.
I was just pointing out a caveat to the comment I replied to. We don’t know the entire context here one way or another (e.g. Is the owner talking about hourly employees or possibly offering pay incentives to salaried employees to work overtime?).
You got it. Pay incentives.
Who knows. Could be 300%. In which case maybe it’s worth it. Lol.
Which is galling, in its own right, as it’s – by definition – all overtime.
Not if you’re salaried exempt!
This is a huge piece of context missing from the OP.
Sorry, didn’t realize that. I’ll edit the post.