Someone’s been reading too many LinkedIn posts
Time to debate how many layers the OSI model has
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.
He’s not talking about a 6-day workweek for himself.
This is a huge piece of context missing from the OP.
Sorry, didn’t realize that. I’ll edit the post.
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!
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.
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What else can you expect from entitled “people” these days? He probably not even arrives to office half an hour before work.
He probably does BECAUSE HE’S THE OWNER AND GETS ALL THE PROFITS.
What is infuriating is when owners think that employees need to be as dedicated as they are despite not getting the same profit from their labor.
BECAUSE HE’S THE OWNER AND GETS ALL THE PROFITS.
Unless he’s up to his eyeballs in debt, in which case he’s just an employee of his lenders.
Yeah, tons of small business owners often make diddly squat in profit. They might pull in a 7-digit revenue, but if their overhead and/or debt is crazy high, they might actually only be making like $50k/yr in take-home pay, if even that.
I’d be happy to make only $50k/yr
Makes my slapping hand tingle.
Gotta make that Q3 line go up somehow
Has he considered 7 day work weeks, with sleeping quarters for the workforce to stay on the premises. And armed guards to prevent them from escaping?
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Oh and they can open up a store that sells basics like bread and water. And a Laundromat on site, so they dont have to go home. Oh and you can just pay them company credits instead of actual currency, in order to really maximize those profits.
And if they don’t have to pay for homes outside the company you can reduce the salary and charge them for rent.
Don’t be silly. They don’t need their clothes washed. They will pay for new company provided uniforms.
Suicide nets.
Your friend needs to read Good to Great by Jim Collins, and reassess.
I would accept a single 6-day workweek in Q3, if that’s all I need to work that quarter, that’s a solid life goal.
But yeah, what he’s talking about is not sustainable, and he’s doing it to himself.
Seeing edit: it’s just worse. Sounds like he needs to hire more people, about 20-30% more staff by his own numbers.
“how do you plan to counter the inevitable contraction of your workforce to achieve your expansion goals?”
Also, he’s probably a shit person. If he actually implements this plan I’d start inviting him to stuff on his extra work day (maybe pull in other mutual friends). Bonus points if you can make the first extra day such an awesome thing that it either eats him up inside on that day, or if you manage to get him to accept all of his employees revolt over it
Lol, you think a person who implements such a policy will apply it to themselves?
Some people are workaholics, especially people who think like that.
Here’s hoping a large percentage of his employees tell him to pound sand…and then walk
Tell him the best employees will quit. The rest will be too burnt out to actually do anything truly productive.
Don’t tell him shit, The Market™️ will sort it out and he’ll be in for a fun surprise when all his best talent flees to a rival company
Ha tell him the internet says good luck, hope he likes the taste of lead?
Ninja Edit: not a threat, just seems like someone who enjoys eating lead. Lead paints, lead fumes, other lead sources. Lead damages the body and mind in all manner of ways.
- Lead paints
- Lead fumes
- Other lead sources
(You forgot to use bullet points.)
Ayyyy
Let him do this six days alone. Just move elsewhere.
And this ballsack scab is still someone you refer to as “friend”?
“A % of the overtime rate”… So not the whole overtime rate… For overtime work?
I’m guessing his employees are salaried and throwing them a fraction of what they’d be due if hourly is how he assuages whatever he has left of a conscience.
