Since when does them needing you to work overtime, mean you need to work overtime?
Since if you decline they fire you. Yeah, this doesn’t make sense since now they’re still out someone for that shift AND out other shifts. But managers aren’t logical or reasonable when they pull shit like this: they’re vindictive.
Luckily they can’t fire you for that in Germany. To fire you, they would have to sue you.
“sure boss, though my overtime pay just became 200%, I’m sure you understand”
COUGH COUGH COUGH we had a shift together, I think I’ve got what he has
Even more depressing when you think about how, overtime is extra money that they’re losing by making you work.
At my job (pizza place, so maybe bad example), we have effectively only 2 night time managers, which means at the end of the week, whoever has the most hours goes home first, so that franchisee doesn’t have to pay the extra money.
“so why not just close early if it costs owner too much to pay you?”
Well, because. Just because, that’s all. Last time I cut orders at 5-or-10-to-close, the next day our owner (who I usually only see twice a year for MAYBE 20mins) came in and said I’d be fired if it happened again.
People with money don’t give a single fraction of a flying freaky fuck about their employees. Unfortunately for me, I work in one of the (ten poorest) states in the US that enforces ‘right-to-work’ laws, which I recently learned, don’t mean that you have the right to work, but instead means my employer is under no legal or contractual obligation to recognize, let alone pay Union fees.
Unionizing isn’t illegal, but good luck finding anybody that will do anything pro-union in one of those places.
But you’re gonna pay me for the overtime, right?
“lol no were gonna pull you off of another shift so that you don’t go over 40 hours”
