This is a great comment. Imagine pulling a 15 hour shift and getting 200 bucks, just like your 8 hour days. It would be infuriating and nobody would put up with it. Yet they do right now. This is another great reason to switch to a daily pay system.

You have it exactly backwards unfortunately. There being such a short feedback between working a long shift and getting a relatively bigger chunk of change would incentivize people to do it more frequently if their employer were willing to pay for it.

Yeah, parent was discussing from the point of view of reality, where employees are not willing to pay for it (the opposite, they'd like to milk their employees even more).

> if their employer were willing to pay for it.

Behringer is starting from the supposition the employer wouldnt. And thus it would cause unrest.

On the other hand, if I am sick with the flu, getting 200 bucks for just sitting at home with chicken noodle soup is a good feeling.

In the US corporate world how often are people "sick with the flu" versus forced to work overtime?

In my experience it's fairly common to not have to work much overtime even on a salary. It's just a few certain types of industries and certain types of positions where this is heavily abused.

I worked in the gaming industry in canada for a brief stint and there was a period where we had mandatory team overtime of 4-5 hours M/W/F for a few weeks.

The only saving grace of going through that was that team productivity tanked so badly that the company ended up losing progress toward the milestone and payed out of that contract. After that experience dev estimates carried more weight and the company was more cautious about tight deadlines.