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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Not that I see how that enters into what I said ... but: which of those are you imagining I am?
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Indeed. Is a person simply occupying space, for X hours a day, entitled to $Y/hour for all that time, even if they don't do what they're paid for? And why is the answer to that question any different for the salaried, managerial employee? Why is anyone "entitled" to be paid for time that they don't work?
Sorry: I don't understand this comment, as it pertains to Diap's statement. Neither salaried nor hourly-wage employees should be entitled to be paid for doing nothing, just because they are at their place of employment, or have clocked in but not clocked out, etc. In many ways--and this will certainly outrage some here, no doubt--the old "piece rate" system was the fairest--work done and work paid. The workers who worked harder, earned more. Those who worked less, earned less. It was a true measure of value received for value earned. Why should Annie on the assembly line earn the same as Susie, if Susie does half the work of Annie?
In any event...and I'm sure that this will not be well-met, either--if I had to PAY security people to stand around and check OTHER employees, to ensure that the latter group
wasn't stealing from me/my company, I'd find it outrageous to then have
insult added to injury by being expected to pay the employees' for the time they have to expend, while I pay the security costs of ensuring that they are NOT stealing from me.
Is someone here really going to argue that Amazon instituted these controls, and the expense therefor, without having damned good reason for it? Because, what, they like torturing workers? Pah and codswallop. If the losses hadn't been significant, they NEVER would have done this. The idea that the employer has to be double-whammied, first by paying for all the added costs to ensure that his employees can't/don't steal from him, and second, by paying those self-same employees for that 25-30 minutes a day it takes for him to ensure their honesty...ye gods, the world really has turned on its head. It's a remarkable world we live in, in which everyone argues that jobs are good and great and wonderful...whilst at the same time loathing, holding in contempt and seeking ways to constantly harangue and damage the very entities that create and provide those jobs. Utter cognitive dissonance. Do people really think that jobs come from
the Jobs Fairy?
/rant.
Hitch