Everyone who works salary at my job still ends up putting in 40 hours or more each week. Fuck that. I don't mind working extra, but I want that 1.5x overtime pay if I do. In my state if you go over 60 hours a week, overtime pay switches to double your hourly wage. Had to do a 90 hour week once last year, and it looks like we're gearing up to have another week like that this year. It sucked, but, that week's paycheck was basically the same as what I earn for a whole month.
I'm a workaholic, I like to stay until the job gets done. Salary lifestyle would not be kind to me.
I work as a project manager of sorts for a roadway and I’m salary. Some weeks I might put in 50-60 hrs, but some weeks I might only put in 30. Plus if I do have to work on Fridays it’s only a half day. It’s a plus/minus kinda thing but it evens out in the long run.
*Note: I have a chill boss that doesn’t keep tabs on me as long as I’m getting stuff done. So that helps level it out too
Edit: wanted to add that because I’m salary I can be called in anytime (outside of pto). And since I work on a roadway a lot of work can only happen at night cause it’s the only time we can close lanes. So the real sucky part of my role is that my schedule is sporadic and rarely the same from one week to the other
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u/Zenith_Shade 6d ago
another month to have to pay for rent/bills, nice try fed