who manages payroll and what records are kept?
can we prove that everyone gets their lunch and clocks out appropriately?
tens should be scheduled (per 4 hours or significant portion thereof) and documented and computed according to the # hours in a shift in direct concurrence with the law.
if you guys want to be nice and say, clock out for thirty, paid ten could run up to 15. that would be nice.
paid lunches, vacations, whatever, that's up to you.
but if the bare legal minimum is consistently unmet, unenforced, undocumented and irregular, great earth exposes itself to vulnerabilities legally, and the misery on our faces is not very good from an advertising angle, either.
when i mentioned clocking out to bernie once, the day that scarlet was mean to me in may, he seemed quizzical.
he said, "you have to clock out?" because i think in the benevolence of his spirit this seemed unnecessary.
that added to my lack of clarity as to which rule to follow for whom.
conversely, working through a 7 hour shift with only one ten minute which for me occurred quite a bit early in my tenure or more recently while wendy took luxurious hour long or half hour long ten minute breaks put inordinate pressure on me to do all the real work. i didn't like that. i think she was having a rough day, but this pattern repeated and it is hard to man the counter solo as blenders run out etc.
if it were more regulated and documented all our rights could be protected and no one would feel hassled or put upon.
many mondays i worked with michael, many evenings with chris, many with wendy, with geoff, i observed this offensive slave mentality ethos "oh i don't need a break." will took long breaks.
jackie told me she worked that festival without a single break.
i remember the week of the holiday season that i worked many days with just a ten and worked very hard.
when the martyrs who don't want breaks, or who really want that extra 5-7.5 bucks/30 don't take a break, they get cranky, the incidence of workplace injuries go up, and they promote a level of unfair competition and a prevailing standard that flips the curve for everyone else. the people who do take a break are considered lazy, which is not fair.
its like when someone is offering to work for less than minimum.
do you accept?
it drives wages down.
when people selfabnegate their legal rights away bc they are so grateful to have a job, or they want boss to like them, the cycle of violence begins.
when you hire people who are willing to forget their rights, you promote an unreasonable and illegal standard.
if that heroism of theirs' goes unrecognized and the penalty hour of pay is not tacked on by whoever does payroll services to recompense the worker for the lack of staff, support, lunchtime, breaktime, rest, phonetime, familytime, sanity, rest-----then that legal debt still exists.
one hour's pay for every day that even so much as a little ten minute break never occurred.
so an 8-hour shift would give 2-10s, one 30 clocked out.
if any of those are missed, you owe a flat rate of one hour's pay for that day, and an apology so far as i am concerned.
this is exploitation.
look into it and think it over.
i wouldn't even waste my time with this if i didn't know that you are caring people.
sometimes, affluence handicaps a person to the point of total lack of comprehension of the dignity and suffering of others.
we do it all the time when we buy sweatshop, destroy the earth, eat meat, drive hummers, etc.
the voiceless need a voice.
your customers desire fair trade labor standards.
better than fair.
just for your info
Real raw live deserves this letter too.
unfair, unsafe standard, not cool
mary
can we prove that everyone gets their lunch and clocks out appropriately?
tens should be scheduled (per 4 hours or significant portion thereof) and documented and computed according to the # hours in a shift in direct concurrence with the law.
if you guys want to be nice and say, clock out for thirty, paid ten could run up to 15. that would be nice.
paid lunches, vacations, whatever, that's up to you.
but if the bare legal minimum is consistently unmet, unenforced, undocumented and irregular, great earth exposes itself to vulnerabilities legally, and the misery on our faces is not very good from an advertising angle, either.
when i mentioned clocking out to bernie once, the day that scarlet was mean to me in may, he seemed quizzical.
he said, "you have to clock out?" because i think in the benevolence of his spirit this seemed unnecessary.
that added to my lack of clarity as to which rule to follow for whom.
conversely, working through a 7 hour shift with only one ten minute which for me occurred quite a bit early in my tenure or more recently while wendy took luxurious hour long or half hour long ten minute breaks put inordinate pressure on me to do all the real work. i didn't like that. i think she was having a rough day, but this pattern repeated and it is hard to man the counter solo as blenders run out etc.
if it were more regulated and documented all our rights could be protected and no one would feel hassled or put upon.
many mondays i worked with michael, many evenings with chris, many with wendy, with geoff, i observed this offensive slave mentality ethos "oh i don't need a break." will took long breaks.
jackie told me she worked that festival without a single break.
i remember the week of the holiday season that i worked many days with just a ten and worked very hard.
when the martyrs who don't want breaks, or who really want that extra 5-7.5 bucks/30 don't take a break, they get cranky, the incidence of workplace injuries go up, and they promote a level of unfair competition and a prevailing standard that flips the curve for everyone else. the people who do take a break are considered lazy, which is not fair.
its like when someone is offering to work for less than minimum.
do you accept?
it drives wages down.
when people selfabnegate their legal rights away bc they are so grateful to have a job, or they want boss to like them, the cycle of violence begins.
when you hire people who are willing to forget their rights, you promote an unreasonable and illegal standard.
if that heroism of theirs' goes unrecognized and the penalty hour of pay is not tacked on by whoever does payroll services to recompense the worker for the lack of staff, support, lunchtime, breaktime, rest, phonetime, familytime, sanity, rest-----then that legal debt still exists.
one hour's pay for every day that even so much as a little ten minute break never occurred.
so an 8-hour shift would give 2-10s, one 30 clocked out.
if any of those are missed, you owe a flat rate of one hour's pay for that day, and an apology so far as i am concerned.
this is exploitation.
look into it and think it over.
i wouldn't even waste my time with this if i didn't know that you are caring people.
sometimes, affluence handicaps a person to the point of total lack of comprehension of the dignity and suffering of others.
we do it all the time when we buy sweatshop, destroy the earth, eat meat, drive hummers, etc.
the voiceless need a voice.
your customers desire fair trade labor standards.
better than fair.
just for your info
Real raw live deserves this letter too.
unfair, unsafe standard, not cool
mary
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