Re:The human costs of Black Friday, explained by a former Am...
by Baeocystin on Friday November 23, 2018 @03:15PM
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>From what I understand, many hourly workers look forward to the rare opportunity of getting paid 1.5x to work overtime.
Nobody looks forward to working extra hours at a job that is already tiring. What they look forward to is the chance for a brief respite from the constant stress of poverty, even if it comes at great cost to everything else in their lives.
Source: worked as a welder in a shipyard after the first dotcom crash. Took all the overtime I could get, because bills don't pay themselves. I enjoyed the work in a general sense, and my coworkers, but a human body can only push itself so hard before there are long-term consequences, and that is something that most hourly workers have to deal with over their entire careers.
tl;dr- "Looking forward" to overtime is like saying that someone who is drowning is "looking forward" to breathing.
Nobody looks forward to working extra hours at a job that is already tiring. What they look forward to is the chance for a brief respite from the constant stress of poverty, even if it comes at great cost to everything else in their lives.
Source: worked as a welder in a shipyard after the first dotcom crash. Took all the overtime I could get, because bills don't pay themselves. I enjoyed the work in a general sense, and my coworkers, but a human body can only push itself so hard before there are long-term consequences, and that is something that most hourly workers have to deal with over their entire careers.
tl;dr- "Looking forward" to overtime is like saying that someone who is drowning is "looking forward" to breathing.