Employers want too much

Dear People!
Maybe employers are upset with us "employees" because we don't "pay them" a salary for the
right to turn up at their work place to "give them " our labour?

Its the usual problem, make more profit for the firm so the bosses can reward themselves with a bigger bonus, If you dont do the extra hours they will become childish and act like spoiled brats, if you do work extra time your home life, your health and self esteem suffers. The sooner this country adopts the full measure of EEC rules on employment the better. (max 48 hours in a week, full pay for sickness and better redundancy payouts)
I worked on the night shift for a major engineering company and you couldnt find a boss at 2am because they wouldnt work the same hours as the night shift, the day shift always had management on their backs because they thought they couldnt be trusted.

Did you ever state you are not earning what he is, or come to that, doing three people's work, as they have got rid of staff who usually do all the extra's that you are doing now? What a cheek, go home when your hours are up and don't worry. If he sacks you take him to a Tribunal. Good luck

What does your contract state on the hours you are expected to work. Ask for a copy of the contract and if you are working outside of this then you should just leave. If they want to take action against you then you should ask on what grounds. It will not do much for your career but that depends on how much you want this,

Oh dear...
"I also go by the theory that most people who work late are because of the following:

1. They are trying to get promoted and do not need to be there
2. They are inefficient and cannot do their job a work days worth of work in a work day"

No...not always...there is a third...staff have been reduced to a skeleton staff (because of financial cut backs). So, in order to keep up with the previous level of department productivity, the staff remaining are now doing those people's jobs/tasks as well...as 'instructed' by those in more senior roles. This is of course counter-productive in the long run, since the increased workload means staying on over your normal hours to get done what needs to be done for the good of whatever company or institution you work for.

Reading these gripes on evil bosses makes me think that maybe being out of work isn`t so bad after all, as the only time that I`m moaned at is once a fortnight,when I sign on.

I go by the work to live and not live to work philosophy.

I will tell the Director that I admire them however I believe in a balance in life and having that balance makes a person a better worker.

I also go by the theory that most people who work late are because of the following:

1. They are trying to get promoted and do not need to be there
2. They are inefficient and cannot do their job a work days worth of work in a work day.

So as a result I used to tell my employees that that was how I envisioned it when they were there late..they could not do their work efficiently

I would ask if they needed help because it seemed like they were having trouble doing a job that could be finished in a work day.

I told my staff I placed no positive value when an employee stayed late.

I also told them that if they completed all their work in under 8 hours (they were salary) that they could then go home at 7 hours. Our productivity went up and we had the best stats in the company.

I hate my boss. He has plagiarised my ideas to his own personal benefit. He has stolen the ideas I confidentially shared with him as his own. My boss has no brains. He is devoid of any intelligence. I had a ground-breaking idea, which I mentioned to him in passing but in confidence.

The idea has now be put into action. It will make the company millions, and I have been shafted.

These bloodsuckers sicken me.

Most of modern capitalism is not about creating real wealth for the nations of this world, but is all about Asset Stripping. The workers and their wages are assets to be stripped, and their labours to be exploited. The managers of these forms simply seek to maximise their bonuses by stripping the firms they manage of all their wealth, leaving behind only empty valueless shells.

All wages are on the way down in real values. Hours of work are on the way up. More for less. All in the name of so-called Modernisation.

Read the book Dear Granny Smith: A Letter from Your Postman

All employers everywhere...You are evil and you really must die.

In Das Kapital Marx comments that 'capital is dead labour which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour'. He also comments that the prolongation of the working day 'only slightly quenches the vampire thirst for the living blood of labour', and that 'the vampire will not let go while there remains a single muscle, sinew or drop of blood to be exploited'.

You're absolutely right!! The world is full of greedy employers now days. They want increasingly more excessive hours from employees, yet seem to have no qualms about paying them as little as possible! Globalisation sucks, the rich seem happy to get richer whilst trampling on the honest, hardworking minions below. If your boss asks you again 'why should you leave at 5:30, while I'm here until 10pm', bring up the subject of how much he is paid in comparison!