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Re:Cargo theft, led by food and beverage, is surging across ... by missedthecue on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:28PM (#35310514)
The media also doesn't focus on the inverse of wage theft: time theft, which is probably an order of magnitude larger than wage theft, if not more.

edit: CBS reports wage theft at $50 billion a year while a 2007 study in the Kentucky CPA Journal puts time theft in the US at $400 billion per year.

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Re:Cargo theft, led by food and beverage, is surging across ... by Firmwarrior on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:34PM (#35310565)
Haha, is "time theft" when you post on HackerNews while you're compiling instead of checking Slack and email?
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Re:Cargo theft, led by food and beverage, is surging across ... by pclmulqdq on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:38PM (#35310593)
Don't "@" me. I swear my HN shitposting is marketing, or something.
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Re:Cargo theft, led by food and beverage, is surging across ... by vuln on Sunday March 26, 2023 @12:13AM (#35310853)
Yeah I’m out here _evangelizing_ or some shit. For what I don’t know.
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Re:Cargo theft, led by food and beverage, is surging across ... by missedthecue on Sunday March 26, 2023 @12:43AM (#35311033)
Lying on time sheets is usually what's meant by time theft, not checking HN while youre compiling.
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Re:Cargo theft, led by food and beverage, is surging across ... by incone123 on Sunday March 26, 2023 @10:59AM (#35315131)
In Barbara Ehrenrich's book Nickled and Dimed she got a job at a big box store (i think it was Walmart) and orientation included telling the workers that time theft was doing anything other than work while on the clock.
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Re:Cargo theft, led by food and beverage, is surging across ... by fortran77 on Sunday March 26, 2023 @06:23AM (#35312902)
"But Wattabout ... Wage Theft" is just a standard trope-response on Hacker News whenever there's anything about "theft".
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Re:Cargo theft, led by food and beverage, is surging across ... by raverbashing on Sunday March 26, 2023 @06:49AM (#35313061)
The same people who complain about "time theft" are the ones that try to skip on paying overtime, funnily enough

Some people do slack off but 99% of the time "time theft" is the boss being unreasonable (I'll keep it polite for HN)

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Re:Cargo theft, led by food and beverage, is surging across ... by newjersey on Sunday March 26, 2023 @08:23AM (#35313702)
Exactly. I am at the bottom of the totem pole as it goes. I am definitely not management. How am I “exempt”?
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Re:Cargo theft, led by food and beverage, is surging across ... by lotsofpulp on Sunday March 26, 2023 @08:42AM (#35313848)
Federal minimum exempt pay should be at least $150k if not $200k.
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