Walmart did this to me so one day I said "fuck you. I'm quitting" after a year and a half of working there. Felt great. I was moving anyways but I figured I'd go out properly
Omg, JCPenney did this to me! I was a part time worker who always worked 40+ hours a week, but they never gave me full time status on paper, nor the benefits of being full time. But they always expected me to be there to cover any shift, day or night.
What year was that? Because when the affordable care act was passed no one could work more than 40 hours a week without being offered health insurance so companies (including mine) started tracking part-timers hours and only scheduling them for a max of 38 hours and we kept very strict watch over this. I remember at the end of one quarter we had a guy that we could only schedule one day a week to keep his average down and quite naturally he quit.
I've had this conversation several times. I got to the point that I request hr documentation of my availability and expectations of hours worked for every job.
When I was nursing part-time a colleague always moaned “ oh I wish I was part -time” until She herself was offered less hours as a cost cutting exercise …The idea of a ‘part-time’ salary shut her up.
This was me in about 2006 to 2008 in California. Full time was 32 hours, so they would cap you at 31. But people who had "made full time" they wanted to avoid getting you to over 40 and have to pay time and a half for OT, so they would sometimes work fewer hours than I did as part time. I got sick of the entire system and left the USA in 2011. Never regretted that choice.
@@PaulGaitheryeah I worked a restaurant that couldn't find an employee to run dishwasher. We were only able to use to go containers for customers dining in. (keep in mind this is a fancy brunch place/espresso bar. We got so many complaints and people would ask how much the business is hiring for. I'd tell them $14 an hour. The rich customers would say that's great, too bad people are lazy and don't want the work. I followed up by saying: The job is part time so they won't work you more than 30 hours, also, you need to be available 7 to 6 every day of the week, but you cant get a fixed schedule. Which means if you wanted a second job it would have to be an overnight. so knowing all that, would anyone like to make $20k a year with no benefits, no upward mobility, and very little availability for other jobs. DOUBT IT.
The state at my job gives workers 6.5 hours a day rather than 7 to avoid full time, just below official employment in this State, so we all have to file self-employment and pay out to the state
Ah, so your employer is actually your client? In that case you should be able to raise your rate, and charge additional fees for your services. You are self-employed after all, right? If your job tries to fire you, sue your "client" for breach of contract. I am not a legal expert, I don't know anything. This is just speculation.
A job did this to me one time when I had a similar situation and I just never showed up on those days, until one day I did and it’s like they didn’t even notice.
Walmart did this to me so one day I said "fuck you. I'm quitting" after a year and a half of working there. Felt great. I was moving anyways but I figured I'd go out properly
Almost EVERY retail job, for almost EVERY person.
Omg, JCPenney did this to me! I was a part time worker who always worked 40+ hours a week, but they never gave me full time status on paper, nor the benefits of being full time. But they always expected me to be there to cover any shift, day or night.
What year was that? Because when the affordable care act was passed no one could work more than 40 hours a week without being offered health insurance so companies (including mine) started tracking part-timers hours and only scheduling them for a max of 38 hours and we kept very strict watch over this. I remember at the end of one quarter we had a guy that we could only schedule one day a week to keep his average down and quite naturally he quit.
The J.C. Penney I worked at got sued and loss for this. I got money for a class action I didn’t even know about
@@johnscott2746 This was back in 2010-2014, I believe. It was horrible.
@@sreamingonline6160 Nice! It's good to hear that they were held accountable for taking advantage of workers.
Sounds like walmart.
That is like UNPAID internship, totaly illigal in the EU.
You want sompeone to work for you ==> PAY THEM!
Except that none of them are unpaid.
@@EikottXD Ever heard of ‘unpaid internship’ ?
Illegale in the EU.
You want folk to work for you? PAY THEM!
I've had this conversation several times. I got to the point that I request hr documentation of my availability and expectations of hours worked for every job.
When I was nursing part-time a colleague always moaned “ oh I wish I was part -time” until She herself was offered less hours as a cost cutting exercise …The idea of a ‘part-time’ salary shut her up.
Wow!
That is so sad!
Why can't people get the job schedules they want?!😡
This was me in about 2006 to 2008 in California. Full time was 32 hours, so they would cap you at 31. But people who had "made full time" they wanted to avoid getting you to over 40 and have to pay time and a half for OT, so they would sometimes work fewer hours than I did as part time.
I got sick of the entire system and left the USA in 2011. Never regretted that choice.
They can't/won't give you the hours you want/need, because then they'd have a satisfied employee and they can't have that!
@@PaulGaitheryeah I worked a restaurant that couldn't find an employee to run dishwasher. We were only able to use to go containers for customers dining in. (keep in mind this is a fancy brunch place/espresso bar.
We got so many complaints and people would ask how much the business is hiring for. I'd tell them $14 an hour. The rich customers would say that's great, too bad people are lazy and don't want the work.
I followed up by saying: The job is part time so they won't work you more than 30 hours, also, you need to be available 7 to 6 every day of the week, but you cant get a fixed schedule. Which means if you wanted a second job it would have to be an overnight.
so knowing all that, would anyone like to make $20k a year with no benefits, no upward mobility, and very little availability for other jobs. DOUBT IT.
@@sickofcrap8992it’s mostly the governments fault for the rules
Office Depot did this to me. Constantly scheduling me for 39 hrs so they wouldn’t have to give me benefits.
The state at my job gives workers 6.5 hours a day rather than 7 to avoid full time, just below official employment in this State, so we all have to file self-employment and pay out to the state
Ah, so your employer is actually your client? In that case you should be able to raise your rate, and charge additional fees for your services. You are self-employed after all, right? If your job tries to fire you, sue your "client" for breach of contract. I am not a legal expert, I don't know anything. This is just speculation.
A job did this to me one time when I had a similar situation and I just never showed up on those days, until one day I did and it’s like they didn’t even notice.
Sounds like Walmart almost every retail job
Aaaawaaawaaaa!!!!! Confusion
Go to school, and Zoom in to work.
This is slavery bruh
This has been going on for ages. I worked at a Disney park in the 80s, and they pulled the just short of full time thing.
30 hours is full time. 40 hours is just the average expected for salaried
FEWER hours (not “less”)