Today, I found out I'm going to have to come into the office on yet another weekend to plow snow. This wouldn't be so bad, if I actually got paid to work weekends. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I got snowed in. At work. FML
Today, my boss asked me to work over the entire weekend. That would be fine if I didn't already work a 60 hour week. He also said the extra hours on the weekend wouldn't be paid. FML
Today, I woke up at 5:15, snow blowed and salted the driveway for over an hour, left early and drove an hour on shitty roads just to get to work on time only to be laid off. FML
Today, I found out that we're supposed to get 3 feet of snow, and the person who plows our driveway is out of town. We're stranded on a huge hill. FML
Today, is the blizzard. I have to go into work, my boss threatened to fire me if I didn't show up. I sent him a picture of the snow completely covering my car. He said I moved the snow there and could move it back. FML
Today, my boss texted me to say the office was closed because of the snow. I begged him to let me go in anyway because I had nothing to do all day. I have no life, friends or hobbies. FML
Today, I finally got a job so I could stop missing out on going out with my friends every weekend. Turns out I work only Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, and there's no way around it. FML
Today, my boss asked me if I could work this weekend, doing the work of 2 people, for almost no extra pay. I had a weekend out with my kids planned, so I said I couldn't. My boss called it a shitty excuse, yet gave a free pass to a guy who claimed he had a "phobia of working on weekends". FML
Today, I shoveled snow at work. I had to because my co-workers refused to "get sick." I told my co-workers if anyone needs me, just tell them I'm shoveling snow. Our boss asked for me and they said that I left without punching. This also happened when I went out to water the flowers in the summer. FML
Today, I spent over an hour shovelling the walkway and driveway, snow blowing in my face and down my coat. When I was finally finished, a guy started going through the neighborhood plowing everyone's driveways for them. FML
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Top comments
manb91uk 22
If you don't get paid, why go?
lkb307 21
it is against the law for them to make you work and not pay you.
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Comments (15)
manb91uk 22
If you don't get paid, why go?
lkb307 21
it is against the law for them to make you work and not pay you.
manb91uk 22
You're an idiot if you didn't make sure that overtime payments were additional to your salary. Besides, even if you didn't (and you probably didn't) if the average pay per hour falls below the Minimum Wage the yes, it would actually be illegal. You don't know much about employment law, or anything really, do you?
thejugglingbear 2
He did say though he wasn’t getting paid though.
jbuckets_404 39
Ahh, the "joy" of being a salaried worker in the good ol' USA.....
mssileas 25
Nope. No pay, no work. You're an employee, not a slave, check your contract and work laws in your area. Stop being a pushover.
TumblrweedPasses 11
Then don't If you keep doing it for free, they'll keep asking
chosha_fml 27
Doesn’t sound like they’re asking.
Cody Vertigo Bonthoux 15
labourboard?
dudeisuck 7
**** that. i wouldnt go do it. if you are not getting paid you are not required to work. unless its a salary position, then you are boned.
kieralumina 30
Don't show up if they aren't paying you.
WardenWolf 26
Illegal in all developed Western countries.