My boss tells me Sat. & Sun. are mandatory. Are there any laws....?

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So I already work a 5 day work week with heavy travel and overtime. First I was told that I have to work at least 5 hours on Saturday. Now I'm told that I HAVE to come in on Sunday as well. Are there any laws I can slap in his face? I cannot handle a 7 day work week on top of the other abnormal stresses of my life.

Arrgh,

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[matt]

Well, I can say as a former employee of Channel 22 in Dayton (under the Darrell Hunter regime), the 3-4 man crew I worked with were all putting in 12+ hour days with 12 hour or less turnarounds and no days off for months on end. I think my longest stretch was 4 months, but others had well surpassed that numerous times. If the guy that was supposed to relieve you called off, your 12 hours automatically turned into 36. If no one came in to relieve your next scheduled shift, your 36 turns into 60 straight.

I called the Department of Labor in the middle of one of those stretches, and they told me then that, as an hourly employee, as long as the employer gave you an unpaid 1 hour break every 9 hours worked and a paid 15 minute break every three hours, and paid you overtime, then there was not much they could do. Their bottom line was that the job is a "will to work" job and if those are the job requirements, then they must be met. There is no contractual agreement that says you both agree on working X amount of hours. Basically, no one is holding a gun to your head to work there, you can leave at any time for greener pastures.

My suggestion - find another job. There are so many opportunites out there, you just have to find them. I went to work for Time Warner installing cable after I left 22 and worked 4 10 hour days. I hurt my back, so I went into the office and worked. We had a minor disagreement over the nature of my injury, so I left. When I left I was on a cushy Monday - Thursday shift with Friday - Sunday off. No mandatory overtime on my days off. That was nice. I went from there to working in an office 5 days a week, 8am - 5pm, no overtime unless I want it. I can work at my own pace and am responsible for my own work. It's not my dream job, but light years ahead of where I was with Channel 22.

Although I do miss the killing I made on overtime...

[Danosaur]

My Suggestion:

Rent Office Space and then go fishing this weekend.

[postfeminist]

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Tell your boss that you are going to organize your coworkers to join a union. Then you will have all the days off you ever wanted.

(I'm half serious here; i used to work as an organizer for a large, international union. i worked 7 days a week which worked out to be roughly 100 hours a week.)

:)

[doctort13]

What's so sacred about Saturdays & Sundays? I've been working one or the other (and now both) for 15+ years. I like being off in the middle of the week. There are less people at the movies, the bank doesn't have lines, and I get things done (house stuff) faster.

[IPrayForSound]

Yeah, but he already works all week. He doesn't get the nice days off in the middle.

[yoshomon]

organize and stike. and you don't need a union to do it - just get all your co-workers together and leave.

it is May Day.

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Workers of the world unite?


Actually, it was clarified that if I worked (x) number of overtime during the week, Sunday was optional. He came up to me and asked how many hours I'm going to work Sunday; I said ZERO. You should have seen the look on his face. Christ, it is like Office Space. My boss is Lumberg!

I mentioned the phrase "burn out" once or twice, while resisting the urge to suggest he pound sand up his ass, and when home.

What is it with some people?


Federal law states in no uncertain terms that hourly workers get two paid 15 minute breaks in an 8 hour day, correct? Number of employees irrelevant? 'Cause I don't get them.


Erg! The real solution is to find a real job; I'm severely underemployed.


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[volume11]

...but they're all designed to protect the employer.

George W. Bush suggests you have your daddy buy you an oil company so you can work there for a while, and when you spend all your allowance, just have your friends buy you a baseball team.

It's SO totally simple, isn't it? Why are so many people broke when it's this simple?

"Come to my free seminar..." -Tom Vu

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Originally posted by volume11


George W. Bush suggests you have your daddy buy you an oil company so you can work there for a while, and when you spend all your allowance, just have your friends buy you a baseball team.

It's SO totally simple, isn't it? Why are so many people broke when it's this simple?



Welcome to the WOXY boards!

However, please refrain from posting idiodic, off topic, emotionally charged, factually devoid comments to threads I've started. Save them for someone else's.

The vast majority of labor laws in place have not been significantly changed in years. As far as I'm aware, Bush has made no changes to any laws pertaining to the issue being discussed.

Since so many people seem to think the same, I won't fault you for being sucked into the false notion that having money, money you earned , weather it be from manual labor or savvy investement strategy, is a bad thing (TM).

You can engage in class warfare all you want (God knows there are plenty of WOXY boarders who do. Join the ranks), but kindly reserve ill informed rants that are demonstrative of your lack of economics for threads where they're welcome.


Again, welcome to WOXY. Hope you enjoy it here,

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