Companies will begrudgingly give you the bare minimum they’re mandated to, and pretend you’re only getting it out of their sheer appreciation and benevolence.
I have no idea how they passed and we accepted this concept of “Salary means we own you and your thoughts and ideas, labor laws basically don’t apply, and you never actually stop working.” Absolutely deranged.
It was probably pitched as such a great thing to employees, too, but I’ve always seen it as a scam.
(No judgment on you personally, of course, if somehow this affords you a good life balance!)
I’m also paycheck-to-paycheck with little in the way of advancement prospects unless one of my creative projects lands. So I’m not exactly writing as a sage of material success or anything 😂.
I do appreciate what little time I have to my own autonomy though. Anything trying to take that from me gets met with stiff resistance.
Even things like the 15 minute break.
Companies will begrudgingly give you the bare minimum they’re mandated to, and pretend you’re only getting it out of their sheer appreciation and benevolence.
Maddening.
I’ve been salaried for just over 30 years consecutively. What are breaks? What is overtime? You’re speaking a foreign language to me.
Pshh. Yeah.
I have no idea how they passed and we accepted this concept of “Salary means we own you and your thoughts and ideas, labor laws basically don’t apply, and you never actually stop working.” Absolutely deranged.
It was probably pitched as such a great thing to employees, too, but I’ve always seen it as a scam.
(No judgment on you personally, of course, if somehow this affords you a good life balance!)
I’m also paycheck-to-paycheck with little in the way of advancement prospects unless one of my creative projects lands. So I’m not exactly writing as a sage of material success or anything 😂.
I do appreciate what little time I have to my own autonomy though. Anything trying to take that from me gets met with stiff resistance.