90% of my company is salary and already work more than 40 hours a week. Our hourly employees need to be available to support our salaried employees 5 days a week. It's exciting to think that we'll all get Fridays off but I bet most companies would just implement 2 hour staggered lunch breaks and office hours would still be 9-5 but people would only work 6.5 hours a day. I know there would be a mutiny at my firm if suddenly all the lowest level employees got permanent 3 day weekends.
iamdisillusioned
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Do you think these underemployed elderly only exist in red states?!?
All these comments blaming poor boomers for having to work part-time minimum wage jobs shows that capitalistism's propaganda continues to work by getting us to believe there is a generational war when we're really in a class war. Most of us here will be in the same boat, unable to stop working in our elderly years and unable to get a job with a real wage.
I dropped out 20 years ago and I've done alright but have grown into a management role and now it is very hard to move into other management roles without a degree. I am considering going back to school to finish it.
It was legal software called Needles. The firm didn't use email to communicate. They sent Needles messages. I quit after a week.
A degree can be earned slowly with a lot of outside assistance. A lot of jobs can't be handled like that.
We use an assessment that provides feedback on 12 metrics and the most important to me are logical problem solving, vocabulary and aggressiveness. I can have several applicants from the same school score wildly differently in those metrics, even if they all have the same degree.
What else should employers do if they have 100 applicants for a role? Interview every single person? We need to weed people out somehow. If you don't provide a cover letter, you're eliminated. If you don't take the assessment, you're eliminated. You're saving us time.
I've noticed a lot of people lately thinking that college is the hard part and if they get the right degree they will coast into a cushy, easy job. Truth is, being an employee is work and at best executives and owners get to coast on cushy jobs, so unless you manage to get a degree that instantly qualifies you for a CEO role, you're going to have to work your ass off to climb a ladder or build a business for yourself.
Seriously though, I'm an office administrator and your degree in administration is going to make you the meat in a shit sandwich. Everything that you hate about recruiting...don't be surprised if you end up being responsible for it. You'll have to conduct those 100 interviews, then hire and manage staff that have your same burnt out attitude. Your subordinates will bring you endless problems. But that's only half of it. You'll be also report up to executives who will push you to be callous and heartless, while somehow magically also increasing production and morale. Did your degree give you all the tools and skills you need to do that? Bro good luck.
Bummer, too advanced for me. When I click that link it is a user, not something I can subscribe to. But I really enjoyed your posts while they lasted!
Oh so you need a time dilation potion.
Older models, yes but not the newer ones.
UC San Diego.
Exactly. I read the bill and it only protects currently employed workers. Its basically a grandfather clause. New employees will be offered 32 hour schedules at 32 hours of pay and it will greatly disincentivise job hoping. Don't get me wrong, I love Bernie and every single thing he stands for. I'm just too exposed to C Suite mentality to be hopeful.