Why do people work unpaid overtime?

af_thefragile

Almost everyone in the hse works unpaid overtime. Why? Because he hse can get away with it...

jimmycrackcorm

Why do I work unpaid overtime? I once had to go to India to work with software developers there. Not that they were any better than anyone here but working from 9-9 6 days a week was an eye opener.

Satts

harmoniums wrote: »

I usually do 50-55 hours a week, I'm salaried so no overtime.
Why? because thats what it takes to get the chips out the door.

Also we're a single income family, I do what it takes to make sure I'm compensated as highly as possible.

Since starting this schedule my yearly take has increased about 60% and I've been promoted a few times.

Do you work in McDonalds ? :pac::pac:

barbiegirl

For years I worked probably on average 40 hours overtime a month and then I copped on. It is not worth it management in those kind of organizations don't appreciate it. Now IF I need to stay late for something particular I Will but not as a standard thing.
Good management means that people can get their work done within the time allowed. If they can't either they have an issue they need help with or you are a bad manager giving them too much. Holding onto staff is cheaper than replacing them so it makes sense to help everyone maintain a work/life balance.

woodoo

Slattsy wrote: »

Close to 400 hours unpaid overtime last year.
Why?? Because I gotta do what I gotta do. Hard work never hurt anyone.

Why not get paid for it.

Bad Panda

Same is expected in my job. I couldn't care less though - as soon as it's time to go home, I'm out of there. Whatever work will have to wait 'til tomorrow. If anyone says anything - they can pay me to stay. Simple as.

That's not to say I don't take pride in the work I do or the hours I put in, in there.

bfocusd

I actually worked in another company where I was in a specialist position and I was packing my products to be shipped, the client had flew in to escort the boxes and while I was finishing the packing,
I was called by HR and they asked if I would CLEAN reception, they wanted me to Hoover and polish.. Wtf!

I have absolutely no problem with cleaning as a job or any such thing, but for them to have the cheek to think if they snap their fingers I'll do it! They were told where to go.

I done my job, as I was leaving the person was out plugging in the Hoover, we all got too buffet lunch and about 10 mins in they called another staff member and I could not believe it, they left lunch and went back to work to clean!
The staff member they called eventually ended up in hospital with exhaustion and was frequently sick from stress etc. They quit in the end.

It's amazing how employers thing they can control you, they think they own you sometimes.

Uriel.

Slattsy wrote: »

And straight into a bottle of vino I hope, enjoy.

Unfortunately not tonight. Have to be in Galway (from Dublin) at 9am tomorrow so an early start and driving, but if I am dead by the time I get home tomorrow night I will be having myself a nice glass or 2 of whiskey

Kidchameleon

I absolutley despise overtime and I get paid for it! I try to hide when the boss is doing an OT list

Brussels Sprout

woodoo wrote: »

I never work more than i'm paid.

woodoo wrote: »

If i did that and i got disciplinary action for being a few mins late. I'd be out the door at 4:30 from then on. In fact i'd engineer it to happen.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you're either a public sector worker or working in a highly unionised job such as a general operator in a pharmaceutical company

woodoo

Brussels Sprout wrote: »

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that you're either a public sector worker or working in a highly unionised job such as a general operator in a pharmaceutical company

50% of my working life so far has been in the private sector and public sector. And i've always turned up for work on time and left on time. No more and no less. I don't believe in working for no pay.

Millicent

Slattsy wrote: »

Close to 400 hours unpaid overtime last year.
Why?? Because I gotta do what I gotta do. Hard work never hurt anyone.

Yes it does. Stress, lack of sleep, lack of free time, lack of leisure, long hours and overwork can cause a variety of mental and physical problems. That's why the country legislates for maximum hours per working week and legally mandated break periods.

lecker Hendl

I stay late and get paid for the overtime. I did it at the start for the extra money. Now I do it because I have no other choice with the workload. I prefer working out of business hours. Don't have anyone pestering me with questions.

Brain Stroking

I am professionally qualified to do my job and the day is structured around getting the work done. If done at 5.30pm you go home. If not done til 9pm, well, you're there til 9pm. Very few people working in the professions whose day is confined within certain hours. If the work needs to be done, it has to be done. Very simple

woodoo

Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway all do 35hrs or less per week. We all should be doing the same.

Lia_lia

^ France also. My Dad lives there and is also calling the French a pack of lazy cunts because they work such a little amount of hours, have a higher min wage than us and take really long summer holidays. And he is right!


We get paid overtime. But it gets put in our holiday pay stash. The hotel I work in is closed in January (and I also get the month of January off college) so this month I'm getting paid full wages for doing nothing because I've all the hours built up. And I already took two weeks holidays in the summer! It's great


My Mother is a chef and often works 10-15 hrs overtime a week and gets nothing extra. Nothing is ever said about it either..

woodoo

Lia_lia wrote: »

^ France also. My Dad lives there and is also calling the French a pack of lazy cunts because they work such a little amount of hours, have a higher min wage than us and take really long summer holidays. And he is right!..

Thats the way to live. I do a 35 hrs week too.

bleg

okedoke wrote: »

Sounds like good management (for the company) to me - they're squeezing extra work out of the staff for no extra cost.

Just like "Better Off Ted."

TwoShedsJackson

Clogsworth wrote: »

Its not possible to do the work in our contracted hours. The deadlines set are too tight. Im not lazy, I work hard but its the culture of the place and im not going to change it.

If the work can't be done in working hours, or with a small amount of overtime, a couple of hours a week say, then the company need to hire more workers, not take the pi$$ with the ones that are there.

mikemac1

If you're not getting overtime OP you should at least be getting a bonus at year end

The manager is getting praise and their big salary by keeping costs down and not hiring more staff.

You should be getting something, even just a few grand as a bonus

Clogsworth

mikemac1 wrote: »

If you're not getting overtime OP you should at least be getting a bonus at year end

The manager is getting praise and their big salary by keeping costs down and not hiring more staff.

You should be getting something, even just a few grand as a bonus

No we don't even get a bonus. It baffles me how people stay so long in these types of jobs...I'm only doing it because the area I want to get into look for Big 4 experience so its not going to be a long term.

itsallaboutheL

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