Elon Musk Lays Off Employee Who Slept on the Floor to Meet His Crazy Deadlines

Re:Elon Musk Lays Off Employee Who Slept on the Floor to Mee... by hn_throwaway_99 on Monday February 27, 2023 @01:45PM (#34960294)

To clarify the parent commenters statement, this is rarely, if ever, part of full time employment agreements in the US (where the worker is a W2 employee and not a 1099 employee) where the worker is above a particular level/skillset.

In fact, it's codified into law and payroll systems have clear delineations about how this works. Companies often have 2 classes of workers referred to as "exempt" (these are salaried workers) and "non-exempt" (hourly workers), where what the "exempt" refers to is whether the worker is exempt from overtime rules and other concerns.

Point being, if you are an exempt worker (which I'm guessing is like 95%+ of W2 employed programmers in the US), you won't be getting paid overtime.

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Re:Elon Musk Lays Off Employee Who Slept on the Floor to Mee... by dragonwriter on Monday February 27, 2023 @01:48PM (#34960336)

> Companies often have 2 classes of workers referred to as "exempt" (these are salaried workers) and "non-exempt" (hourly workers)

That's not what “exempt” means, though its very common for those to correlate (you can be hourly exempt and salaried non-exempt.)

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Re:Elon Musk Lays Off Employee Who Slept on the Floor to Mee... by hn_throwaway_99 on Monday February 27, 2023 @02:05PM (#34960548)

Sure, that's possible, although (in my experience) very uncommon.

Plus, the last half of that sentence was "where what the "exempt" refers to is whether the worker is exempt from overtime rules and other concerns", which very much is what exempt means. The US Department of Labor has more details: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/17a-overtime

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