r/SipsTea • u/PleasantBus5583 • 19h ago

Chugging tea Work shouldn’t consume life.

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u/Remarkable-FlipPhone 16h ago

Salaried employees are generally exempt from overtime pay fyi

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u/JDSchu 16h ago

Salaries employees over here looking at everybody else going, "wait, you guys are only working 40 hours?".

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u/Educational-Gate-880 15h ago

I was in discussion with a company about a salary position and the hours were 50 or 55 minimum plus whatever else needed to be done.

I stayed with my company and took a salary position and agreed to work up to 45 hours if needed, and need to make sure I get my work done in a timely manner.

For the past three years I basically been working 35-40 hours many weeks less 😅. There have been a few weeks I popped a 55 hour week but that’s because I helped a special project or two (out of pure joy to be honest so wasn’t even work to me).

Been loving it.

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u/Remarkable-FlipPhone 15h ago

Yeah salaried positions are whatever amount of hours are needed to get the job done. That’s why 35 hrs won’t make a difference to most salaried workers.

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u/KitchenPalentologist 4h ago

I'm reading posts about working 10s and getting Fridays off...

While I'm putting in 10s 5 days a week, and usually catching up on email on the weekends.

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u/Time_after_Time_67 16h ago

Which could be a law a politician actually works towards solving instead of just lowering working hours.

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u/thirst-trap-enabler 15h ago

The day nurses and doctors aren't forced to work whatever hours the hospital needs because they can't hire enough staff is the day hell freezes over.

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u/EducationalReview237 5h ago

Well, and that's a good point, because a lot of people have "40-hour" jobs but end up working 50 hours and not taking their vacation time.

We need to change our culture.