Employers want too much
17-March-2010
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Office worker sitting at a desk

Is it only me or are there other people out there that are tired of being exploited by their employer?  I have a reasonably good and well paid job in an office and I am contracted to work 37.5 hours per week.

Sometimes you may need to leave early...

Occasionally you accept that a job needs to be finished so you put in a little extra time gratis.  It is only fifteen minutes or so here and there, so this isn’t really a big deal as far as I am concerned.  Sometimes you may need to leave early for medical appointments etc.  so it works both ways and will usually balance out at the end of the month.

Why is it though that my employer is increasingly expecting me to work my lunch, come in early, leave late, and to dedicate my life soul to the company?  I was recently called into the director’s office and had my commitment to the job brought into question.

He explained that sometimes he is at his desk until 10 pm.  Why do I think I can go at 5 pm? I told him that I think I can go that early because that is when he stops paying me.  If he would like me to stay, I will on occasions do so provided he pays me for my time and services.

I don't think that is unreasonable, do you?  At the end of the day I want to go home to my family and spend some quality time with them.  I do not want to sit at my desk facing his office, afraid of leaving in case I become surplus to requirements!  It's high time my employer realised that his employees do in fact have a life outside work.


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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.
*Manager  11-Feb-2010 15:48

 
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.
*Pirates Everyone Of Them  01-Jan-2010 20:23

 
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
*End of the World  19-Dec-2009 21:26

 
All employers everywhere...You are evil and you really must die.
*Howsoonisnow?  19-Dec-2009 18:17

 
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'.
*Corpsing  24-Nov-2009 19:47

 
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!
*Chris Cream  24-Nov-2009 19:42

 
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!
*Chris Cream  24-Nov-2009 18:41

 
I am evil, you are evil, even Mother Teresa was evil. All humanity is evil. But my present employer is the most evil one I have ever worked for, ever! He wants more, not for our joint gain, but more just to satisfy his greed for more, more, more and more. There is no limit to his greed. The greed of others in his same class and league drives him to want more. He is evil. His class is evil. The world run by such individuals is evil. They are relentless. There is no limit to how much they will exploit others in their game of acquisition.

These parasites will eventually suck the world dry. They are vampires of the Capitalist system. The grave is the only place for them. I wish them eternal death. But above all I despise all of you who allow these creatures to exist and flourish. They exist because evil people like you allow them to exist.
*World of The Damned  15-Nov-2009 07:55

 
aah thingy thingy eek lol somebody do something.....
*gonabe sik  15-Nov-2009 02:54

 
um creepy religious crap, you sound evil so you do, get back from me get away back from whence you came thing
*gonabe sik  15-Nov-2009 02:52

 
Nominal, in a round about sort of way, I can see your point.
*Gainsborough lad.  14-Nov-2009 11:23

 
And my computer is suffering from rigor mortis, requiescat in pacem.

PATER noster, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.
*Nominal  13-Nov-2009 23:24


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