Changing terminology

[Skywalker]

Actually.....the no overtime thing was caused by a lawsuit that was filed by Assistant Managers with "Starbucks", yep...the coffee house ..... it was done as a "class action" about 4 or 5 years ago. Starbucks was working those people into the ground.....way, way past 40 hours a week....under the guise of "being management"......and while they were "AM's.....their pay literally "sucked" and they were getting hosed. The courts said: No, pay them by the hour....and it made it harder to make Assistant Managers or many other management positions "salary exempt".

It was decided during Bush's tenure.....but he really can't be blamed for it. Hell....if he had his way, you'd either be replaced by a foreigner willing to work for 1/3rd of the money you make...... Or if he could get away with it, he'd sign an Executive Order ordering you to work for minimum wage and accept 40 hours pay or less regardless of anything.

If you doubt the above..... you're in trouble. The republicans are pushing like hell to get a "guest worker program" and "amnesty" for all the illegals, and Newt Gingrich is riding shotgun on it......and has told members of the ATA "Help us get the "guest worker" program approved, and you'll have more drivers than you will ever need"....or words to that effect.

Being FLSA-exempt means we have absolutely ZERO legal guarantee of EVER getting paid a red cent for anything we do. Our time has no value. Leave us sitting for 70 hours at a rathole in West Memphis, and who cares. We get paid because we will quit if we don't, but there is nothing else to back that up.

That's why our wages keep going down and down and down. More people are willing to do more for free, or for less money, and there's nothing we can do about it, because we just have to be grateful they deign to pay us anything for our effort at all.

Can I get a "hell yeah"?! That's exactly why that job sucks.

[Colin]

Being FLSA-exempt means we have absolutely ZERO legal guarantee of EVER getting paid a red cent for anything we do. Our time has no value. Leave us sitting for 70 hours at a rathole in West Memphis, and who cares. We get paid because we will quit if we don't, but there is nothing else to back that up.

That's why our wages keep going down and down and down. More people are willing to do more for free, or for less money, and there's nothing we can do about it, because we just have to be grateful they deign to pay us anything for our effort at all.

Can I get a "hell yeah"?! That's exactly why that job sucks.

No, you can't.

[Skywalker]

Being FLSA-exempt means we have absolutely ZERO legal guarantee of EVER getting paid a red cent for anything we do. Our time has no value. Leave us sitting for 70 hours at a rathole in West Memphis, and who cares. We get paid because we will quit if we don't, but there is nothing else to back that up.

That's why our wages keep going down and down and down. More people are willing to do more for free, or for less money, and there's nothing we can do about it, because we just have to be grateful they deign to pay us anything for our effort at all.

Can I get a "hell yeah"?! That's exactly why that job sucks.

No, you can't.

Actually...."ColdFrostyMug" is right, and so was the other poster pointing out the FLSA exemption.....which is nothing less than a theft of income from drivers and only benefits company owners. I give him a big HELL YEAH!!!

[silvan]

the other poster pointing out the FLSA exemption.....which is nothing less than a theft of income from drivers and only benefits company owners. I give him a big HELL YEAH!!! [/b]

Benefits the companies, the shippers, the receivers, the guy buying widgets at Wally World or tacos at Taco Bell or a new Camaro... We subsidize the entire American economy by working for free.