r/Maliciouscompliance I Worked 2 Minutes and Made $18,000
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2024
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0:00 Intro
0:10 Pay day
3:10 Meal plan
7:07 Last day
9:55 ID
12:25 Sick note
"Sneaky Snitch" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) License: CC By Attribution 3.0 - Komedie
In the first story, he didn't work 8 hours a day. He was on site for 3 whole days (hence why the manager asked where he slept), and therefore got paid the time and overtime for like, 72 hours
Also it salaries get crazy. I'm at 125/hr and I'm not even that senior.
@@TheRydog456 Tell me your ways, oh middle managing one.
Adding to that:
In the IT world it sounds like he’s a contractor. I’m guessing his base rate is $125/hour and he got double time for emergency weekend work. That would be $250/hour for 72 hours = $18,000. $125/hour is fairly average for an IT contractor (remember, there’s no benefits and no guaranteed salary).
His boss, having been a programmer, probably had a suspicion that the other company’s manager was being a tool and was making sure his guy got PAID for putting up with it. Playing 3D chess in the business world. Sounds like a great boss actually, who DID go to bat for OP even if OP didn’t realize it at the time.
Yep 72hours + getting there and back all the while overtime keeps stacking up.
Plus a bonus probably for good measure.
That and time and a half is for regular work days overtime. Weekends and holidays incur DOUBLE TIME rates, so OP only worked time and a half for the first few hours. The moment the clock hit midnight and it was Saturday, he started getting double time for every hour he had to spend at work;
All for two minutes of work who wouldn't even require overtime if the other department's know-it-all manager followed OP's plan from the start instead of insisting on dumb useless solutions.
While what OP did in the 2nd story is awesome, let's not forget that a university was willing to let food go to waste instead of giving it to truly deserving individuals/families.
Yeah it’s kinda hard to forget that part lol
No, the university knew that there would be a ton of students with unused meals on their meal plan that they wouldn't have to order the food for. Their plan wasn't letting food go to waste, it was stealing money from students.
@@anmbia Honestly, what's the difference?
@@danielbrant6740 The difference is that throwing out uneaten food is a waste of money for a school that's trying to profit off this meal plan. Since this cafeteria is either making food to order or they're making several servings of food based on the average number of students that come in, there's very little food waste being made; the majority of it is likely still in the freezer by the end of the day.
OP bringing his friends in for meals, a large number of them at that, is forcing the school to make and serve more food than they usually would. That's less food they have for the next time they want to serve this menu and more food they have to order to stock their freezers, which digs into their profit since they were counting on the majority of students not using half of their meals.
This is neither stealing nor letting food go to waste. The dining hall knows that they typically sell X meals over the semester which costs them Y amount of money and they charge accordingly. They are buying food and hiring staff to meet their typical load. If someone throws them a curveball by bringing an unexpected number of people, it is hard for them to handle. If you are going to pull a stunt like giving away 50 of your meals to other people, don't make a disruption by bringing all 50 of them to one meal setting; figure out something more intelligent like inviting 2 guests 25 times.
A plan with 150 meals for a single semester is typically too much for the average student living in a residence hall, so for a commuter student it's basically IMPOSSIBLE to use up. The uni was definitely hoping those meals would go unused.
The average semester is 75 days. 2 meals per school day is 150 meals.
Most people eat more than twice per day.
I don't see how you think a student living on campus would have a hard time using the plan.
Edit: Again, that math is using *only* the school days too. Students living on campus need to eat on the weekends too.
I attended 2 universities. When I was in college, I had plenty of swipes left every semester, *but I also had friends who would run out every single semester.*
Edit: And for the very same reason that these meal plans are considered expensive (students are poor, college budgets are tight), students *shouldn't* be eating out or even buying groceries. Students, *especially* on-campus ones, *should* be using the meal plans *a lot.*
@@Richard_Nickersonyou’re failing to take into account the busy life of college students . Most college students barely have time to get there for breakfast let alone lunch or dinner . It’s often that many students don’t have time to eat more than 1 meal a day because of their schedules . Then take into account commuter students and it gets worse .
My school meal plan was weekly. Freshman were all forced 21 meals a week (3/day) and it was hard to use them all especially when some of us couldn't get up early enough for breakfast and/or went home on weekends. A ton of students in my class would save all the extras and go crazy on Sundays (before they expired) which would piss the school off lmao
@@izraelburgess937
How? Seriously, how? I've literally been that busy college kid. I'm 34. I literally included in my comment that I attended multiple colleges.
No, I absolutely am NOT failing to take that into account.
It's honestly like you didn't even read my comment. Re-read it, and this time actually finish it.
@@Richard_Nickerson yeah I read your comment . And you still are really out of touch if you think that it’s a viable meal plan. The mere fact that colleges plan around students not meeting their meal plan emphasizes the fact you were wrong .
Love that college meal story. Mandatory meal plans suck, and generally the college makes a ton of money on them for this exact reason; they rely on kids not eating all their meals and therefore they don't have to actually purchase and prepare that amount of food. If the college kitchen "Can't handle the influx of customers" they've obviously oversold meals and are straight up admitting they're screwing people over.
To avoid what OP did I bet some colleges make a rule you can only use a set amount of food points a day and only can be used by the student. Nice exploitation of loopholes.
Having worked in a college kitchen, it's more that they are understaffed than anything else. They also account for certain times of day being slower so they stop making as much food so that they don't waste a bunch(health guidlines dictate that it has to be thrown away after a certain amount of time)and certain stations shut down in between meals. Having 60 people show up out of no where during dead time can absolutely overwhelm a college dinning hall, especially if people have started taking their lunch breaks.
Honestly, it sounds like OP showed up to the dining hall with a large group all at once. For the sake of argument, let’s just say they showed up with 25 people. Of course the dining hall is not going to be able to “handle” it if they didn’t know they would have such a large amount of people on top of their usual numbers. Each station would get cleaned out all at once and staff will be scrambling to prepare the extra food right away. Normally when someone wants to bring such a large group in to eat they notify the dining hall ahead of time about what day and time they are eating and then staff will have the extra portions ready before they get there. It’s even worse depending on the numbers of customers the dining hall gets per meal.
Plus you don’t “over sell meals”. As far as my experience goes. Dining Halls can’t run out of food. They have to get product from sister locations and if they really do run out, then management staff get royally chewed out. If it’s a consistent problem then that location has some serious management issues that will get resolved. Students quality of live is majorly affected by meal quality and experience.
Sorry for the long rant. I just hope that shed a little light on why it was an issue. As for the guests, good on OP and screw those elitist jerks.
Quality of LIFE… not live🤦🏻♀️
We know what you’re doing and we don’t like it. Oh no, that sounds like your problem not mine
"Infectious diseases require more than two days to improve." God i really wish ANY of my former bosses could understand that. Because once I'm dragged back into work able to stand suddenly now half of my coworkers get sick and I have to pick up the slack still sick. But yeah, good on you for forcing one sick worker back so you could loose four. Genius policy.
What’s so bad about requiring a simple note? If it’s as bad as you’d need to be off for multiple days, you should be going to the doctors anyways.
@@DarkLobster69 Where did I say anything about a note? I'm talking about employers who force people back to work while they're still sick because they claim they need the staff but end up losing more staff to sickness anyway. Did you reply to the right person?
@@sarahcb3142 and I’m referring to the story, where the company was extremely reasonable with their request for op. Did you even listen to the story before going on a tangentially related rant?
@@DarkLobster69 Ah, I think I understand you now? I was talking about a direct quote from the video (so yep, definitely watched it) where the doctor pointed out that people needing more than 2 days off to stop being infectious and decided to talk about my own experience with bosses not realizing that. You interpreted that as me saying that it's ridiculous for companies to want a doctor's note. I wasn't but I can see now why you'd think that if you were only talking about the video and not what I wrote.
But I think you can see how I got confused because your comment was quite the non sequitur. Anyway have a good day!
@@DarkLobster69 Requiring somebody, who may be too sick to even get out of bed, to go get a note within 2 days is totally unreasonable. If your are sick for more than a week I can see maybe how a note could be justified.
We are still in a pandemic requiring 10 days of isolation if you get test positive for crying out loud!
I have had my employer follow-up when I called in sick before, commenting how nice and sunny the day was. I agreed, but was too sick to go out and enjoy it.
Stupid Driller: “Work on December 23 or you’re fired!”
OP: “Fine, but after that, I quit.”
Stupid Driller: “Where are you? I've had to cover your shifts for a month because you weren't showing up!”
OP: “I don't work there anymore.”
Stupid Driller: “(Shocked Pikachu Face) I thought you were just sulking and didn't think you meant it!”
you'd think after a week of no-shows, the guy would either call OP to see if he's coming back or just start looking for a new hire.
Story 2: Well, if the meals left over won't carry over, might as well give them to someone else. Don't waste the excess after all.
I don't know what they were expecting, OP was playing by the rules after all.
Lets not forget that they were trying to prevent someone from helping to feed people in-need of food
They were expecting o p to just suck it up and let them keep the difference
The only excess was probably the money that OP spent towards meals they didn't need, but forcing students to buy more meals than they need is scummy as hell. Sounds like it's more of a business than an educational facility, so that probably took place in USA.
Exactly. To mandate meal plans and to cover the cost of the new dining hall or whatever should be illegal. But I absolutely applaud OP and his cousin and their creativity. I wish my daughter’s school had a system like that. She graduated already, but she went to a very well-known university in TX where I can just imagine the reactions from students and staff. 😆
@@KristianKumpulaFor sure. We learned a lot about the process when our oldest started college. We found out several universities mandate meal plans for at least the freshman year 😡
Head staff: "I know what you were doing, and I don't like it."
OP: "I missed the part where that's my problem."
You gonna summon bully maguire huh
Note on the college story, some colleges will allow you to donate swipes, either to students who ran out of meals or for meals provided to the local soup kitchen.
Heck a local college here got sued because they claimed to donate the meals when people opted into it. They didn't donate a crumb and had done this for 3 years before someone caught them as they went to volunteer at the supposed recipient.
Kinda cool
Story 5: Yeah, whoever came up with that "2 Days" policy probably got sick at a school once with a minor illness, had to stay away from school for 2 days by their policy, and thought that all illnesses would work like that.
Except no, some take over a week as the doctor said. If someone was suffering a major illness, had to stay home for 2 days, couldn't get a doctor’s note, and was forced to come to work despite still being sick, what would happen? Everyone gets infected, of course, and HR can only blame their flawed policy for letting this happen
Gotta love a doctor who, when asked writes a note that will make the manager who demanded it look like an ass to their higher ups.
If you think op in the story was forced to go to work, you completely got the story wrong. HR only required a doctors note and op was fine to work from home for as long as needed.
Damn
A few illnesses typically clear up in two or three days (e.g. a norovirus), but if you get influenza or COVID you can expect it to last at least a week and usually longer.
Typically if you get ill, you'll be infectious and generally feeling bad for 3-5 days. Accounting for the fact that often you won't notice you feel bad until the weekend hits and you're not mistaking it for the stress of having to work, a "more than two days sick" policy isn't actually that unreasonable. This person was just unfortunate enough to have caught a much less common bug that effected them much more.
The real reason that policy is stupid is that someone who's healthy can go to the doctor and complain about feeling sick and get a note pretty much whenever. Get the right doctor and they'd probably never even call bullshit on you no matter how much they know you're lying. Aside from the fact that lower quality insurance plans will have you spending about your day's wage just to prove that you didn't need to go to work, it's not a half bad way to get out of work.
I think it's needless to say, the Second Story it's so damn wholesome, what OP is doing made me shed some tears, Warmed my heart. And it was all just because his cousin suggested very helpful prank.
I suppose there is still some hope left for Humanity after all.
it made me happy to hear that the university president was supportive maybe in the future she could help set up a program to organize meal donations with local charities and maybe have some fun stuff set up for the kids so they can have a nice day out and a hot meal with their family
i bet they could also find plenty of students willing to volunteer to help out so the workers in the dining hall aren’t too overwhelmed
Lol yea. Trolling with a good outcome
With story 1, on top of being there for 72 straight hours it was a holiday weekend so I imagine he got not only 48hrs at 1.5x for the overtime, but 24hrs at 2x for the holiday he worked! Cha ching!
That last story is probably why covid kept spreading around during the first year over and over again...
Seriously. The building I work in is used by two sister businesses, but they are legally separate so have no shared management at the local level. My employer sent as many employees home as they could, only bringing in the people they had to, but with strict health regulations. The other business kept everyone coming into the office. They had more than one person pass from COVID, we had none.
Even now if one of us low level folk get even slightly sick we are given the option of working from home. Heck, my boss is so good about it that when I had a persistent cough (allergies that turned into walking pneumonia) that I was taking antibiotics for, he told me to work from home for the remainder of the week. No note needed.
Employers that require a doctor's note should also be required to pay the copay to go to the doctor. We should also push back against employees being forced to return to the office. Less vehicle traffic is just one of the benefits.
@@KellyDVance your employer sounds like a smart man.
@@abiean222 he knows I can be trusted to work from home and I don't abuse the privilege or his trust. I've worked for him for 8 years, and for his predecessor for 3 years before that. I am a known quantity.
Yea
Things I learned from rSlash:
1 never mess with the IT guy
2 get it in writing
3 don't mess with the people who prepare your food
4 don't bitch about employees "breaking the rules" then expect them to break the rules for you
Number 3 is something my mum instilled in me the moment I went to school. "NEVER piss off the people responsible for your lunch; you *will* regret it! Be nice, say 'hello' and 'thank you' and benefit!"
My face when RSlash suggested that OP in story 1 was only working 8 hrs per day during that weekend: 😂😂😂
RSlash, OP said they had to sleep in the waiting room. He was probably working around 20 hours per day during that period.
Tbf op was probably barely doing anything and just telling them to do their idea. All that mattered was they were on the clock for all that time, though they probably didn't do much
@@Aryasvitkona
Yes, being "on the clock" and "working" are the same thing.
@@Richard_Nickerson imo not really. Being on the clock is being paid, working is working. Plenty of people work without being on the clock, and some people on the clock are not working. They're not synonyms and treating them like they are goes a long way to mask a lot of corporate exploitation of workers
@@Aryasvitkona
Being on the clock is working. Literally no one *actively* works the *entire* time they're on the clock. Period.
There are so many jobs where actively working is incredibly passive or even actually nothing.
You are not actually differentiating anything. You're merely implying that anyone not being active is not working. That's not how the real world, or even these words, works.
I fail to see how *my* seeing "being on the clock" and "working" as synonymous is *my* being exploited. If anything, it's *your* mentality that one *must* be *actively* working (which implies physical activity to me too, which is another issue on top of this) that leads to worker exploitation. With these 2 mentalities, which of us is more tired both physically and mentally at the end of the day? Is my job not paying me for my time?
I was hired on a contract to find out why a process was costing more than the engineers said it should by about 20%. The first thing I did was ask for a plant tour to see the process in operation. The Plant manager and a few others described the process from start to finish as we visited each station and I took notes on process input, output, consumed materials etc. At the end of the tour, I asked about a pipe I had noticed that had an open valve and was draining liquid into a drain pit I wanted to know if it was part of the process and what the flow rate of the liquid from it was and where in the process that liquid originated why it was being drained into the pit as waste. The plant manager got flustered. thanked me for coming for the tour and rushed me out to my car. I got paid my full contract value and was told the contract was considered complete and the company was satisfied with the results. The best $5,000 I made for 20 minutes of work.
Amazing story aha, my father had a similar one. Sometimes it helps to just explain the whole thing to someone to notice errors
I'm a student. I don't have a meal plan, but I'm hungry. I ate 935 calories yesterday, and not by choice. I always get emotional when people feed me. That story made me cry.
I would absolutely help you a little if I could ;3; I remember being that hungry, I'm still banned from a store I got busted stealing food from...
Last story...This reminds me something I went through. Back in 2015 I had to have minor surgery and the surgeon said recovery is about a week. So I tell my boss and he is ok with it. I used 5 of my sick days to cover it. At the time I had been working there for 9 yrs and in all that time had only ever take 1 sick day. I get an email from HR stating I need a doctor's note if I am out more than 2 days. Seriously??? They can see my time off request in their system and the reason WHY. My surgery was like 3 months away so in one of my visits to the surgeon I mentioned that my work REQUIRES a doctor's note. He just smiles and says "No problem." Doc wrote me a note the day I left the hospital after my surgery covering my 1 week recovery and he added 2 more weeks of mental health (stress relief) due to the mental anxiety I experienced due to my off the charts needle phobia. So I basically got an extra 2 weeks paid vacation without having to use any more sick days or vacation days. Thanks Doc.
Story 2: good on OP. It’s saddening the amount of food that gets thrown out instead of given to people in need, but it only took one person pretending to choke on the food and trying to Sue that company for them all to say “we’re not taking that risk ever again.”
I didn't attend the University for long, but for the year that I did they did offer a actual option to share your meals with those in need if you had leftover meals by the end of the term. In some way it makes me think that op made an impact for the better, or if not them, like-minded individuals who have done similar things
RE: The last story. As an American, needingnq doctor's note is ridiculous. If I wanted to wait in a waiting room for half the day while sick just to get a note to not work, I'd rather just go into work. And that's what they expect. We are adults and if we don't feel like we are capable of working, why would an employer want that person to do 10% of the job and get others sick? This especially makes no sense for those of us who can telework
It’s a stupid concept, but I think the point of the doctor’s note is to prove you’re actually sick and not just lying about it to get time off.
@@kranberry3318 Definitely agree with you. A way to help keep people accountable I suppose. It does suck because the point of a sick day is to rest and not be around people. I've had to deal with that in the past but admittedly, as I've gotten better jobs, I've established much more autonomy and flexibility. But just another backwards way of thinking about things :D
When listening to the last story, and OP didn't want to go to work and possibly infect coworkers with whatever OP had. I was imagining that OP could of had some fun with taking in the doctor's note, by putting something together that looks like a "Hazmat Outfit". Walking up to whomever demanded the note, handing them the note inside a clear ziplock bag.... lol
Totally agree with that last one. When you’re sick, beyond quickly sorting any administrative tasks necessary (eg checking for critical meetings/messaging those who need to know that you’re off sick) you shouldn’t be working. Just because you can force yourself to do it doesn’t mean you should.
As a former military brat, it was drilled in our heads as dependents to have our military IDs on us at all times. The fact that the manager didn't have her's on her when she was checking out really makes this malicious compliance hit on a completely different level.
Sadly my meal plan in college largely went to waste because it allowed me to eat every meal, but it only allowed once swipe per meal time, not a specific number of swipes, so any time I tried to use it for someone else, it got rejected.
Could you have multiple people order on a single swipe?
@@thepretzel2 No, the swipe happens to gain entry to the cafeteria.
Second story: this was very similar to the dining hall at my undergrad, but the problem was it was also isolated. The students frequently and spontaneously started sharing meals between friends because the massively expensive mandatory meal plan didn't even cover one meal per day. I wish we had known about that app. Thanks for sharing it!
That college meal story is one of the best things I've heard all year. I want more stories like this not just on this channel but in the news in general. Makes me proud as a fellow human ❤️
Lol yea
Would the first story count as 'Don't mess with the IT guy'?
I do believe it does.
Regarding that last story: About 20 years ago, I worked at a big communications company as a customer facing engineer in their network management centre. Because my seat was directly under the aircon outlet, I used to pick up all manner of bugs. Some I would just suck it up and work through but other times I would not. One year, I had 8 sick days in a 12 month period and was actually called into my managers office to explain myself. I actually felt myself being scrutinised and made to feel like I was pulling a fast one. Well, over here, unless you have more than 4 sick days off in one go, you can legally self-certify yourself ( no sick note ). Well, the very next time, I ended up catching the summer Flu. It hit me in the evening of the Tuesday so come Wednesday, I called in sick. I told them I would aim to be back in by Monday if I can shake it off. So I would be missing Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. My manager rang me back on Wednesday and insisted that I get a sick note. Doctors used to charge £10 for a sick note. So I booked an appointment for the Thursday and somehow go in. Yup, summer Flu. I explained to my doctor. He said " It's an abuse of authority for a company to insist on a sick note because employment law in this country allows for anyone to self-certify for the first 4 days ". I paid my £10 and sat there for 2 minutes whilst he wrote it out. He handed it me in an unsealed envelope and I asked if I could read it before he sealed it. He said " Sure ". What I read nearly made me wet myself laughing. He said " just hand it in, they'll get the picture ". Come Monday morning I went in to work, I was over the worst of it. I walked in to my managers office and said " I have my sick note as you requested . That will be £10 please. " They told me that they'd put it in my monthly salary. I refused. I said, I paid up from for that note, I need the money for fuel to get home ( I didn't ) and that I would get taxed on the £10 because it looks like wages on my wage-slip. Reluctantly, I was handed my £10. I stood there whilst they opened it and read it. I'll reel off basically what my Doctors note said: ( There was no hint of my doctor corroborating exactly what was wrong with me ). It just said. " To demand an employee to provide a sick note for time taken off through illness or injury that is covered by employment law for the first 4 days is a blatant abuse of authority. My patient should of been at home recuperating instead of sitting in my waiting room for an appointment. In total, I work around 80 hours per week along with all of my colleagues to tend to the needs of 8000 patients in my community. I've been forced to waste 20 minutes of my time to pander to the absurd, unethical and highly illegal practices of your company when a self certification covered by employment law in the United Kingdom would suffice. My time to the NHS is worth £4 per minute and I have had to keep 2 extra staff in the building whilst I sit here and write out this pointless sick note. I have advised my patient that if he is a member of the Union and there is a repeat of this, then he would be quite within his rights to take up a case for harassment in the workplace. I hope I have made myself crystal clear " Signed Dr xxxxxx. I stood there with the biggest grin on my face whilst HR read it. I asked for a copy and a receipt to show that it had been placed in my file. I was emailed it. I CC'd my acknowledgement of receipt to include the CEO and the director of HR. I walked back to my desk and told everybody I worked with just what went down. 30 minutes later, everybody in the company - around 12000 people were emailed by my companies HR to remind everyone that you do not need a sick note for 4 days or less of illness.
1 week later, I dropped in a thankyou card to my doctor and a nice bottle of wine. I explained what went down. I still laugh about it today.
OP of the first story doesn't make $500 an hour. The manager confirmed OP slept on sight and thus counted all the time he was in the office over the weekend as overtime. So he got somewhere around 56 hours of overtime. He probably included living expenses too, since OP needs to eat, drink, and sleep. Still, OP is making serious bank.
2nd story: That story just melted my heart ❤️ 👏🏽🙌🏽🙏🏼👍🏼
rslash the it guy didnt work 8 hours a day, he worked 24 hours a day, since they refused to let him go home until the urgent problem was fixed. thats 250 an hour, which is higher then normal cause it was def all overtime.
I’ve worked for those college cafeterias and the upper management of those places are some of the stingiest, greediest, most incompetent people I’ve ever met. My manager got screamed at because I gave away pizzas for free instead of just throwing them away. Bastards.
Story one. He asked where he sleept, cus since he sleept there on the couch that was added on. So just dividing for hour pay is not possiable since we do not know what they charged for him to stay the night etz
College Dining Hall story: Based on what I gathered from that story, when it came to building the new Dining Hall on the campus, they likely realized a bit too late that the costs of the Dining Hall went a bit over the budget that they had, and they didn't want to pay out of their own pockets to do THAT because they care way too much about making money, and they sure as heck didn't want to turn off a bunch of new students by jacking up their Tuition Rates so that they could cover the costs, so instead, they decided on a morally questionable approach by placing the burden on the Students anyway by covering up the costs by suckering the new students into paying a ridiculous amount of money in Meal Plans so that they could take the leftover money that the new students could have used so that they'd never have to pay for the cost of the Dining Hall themselves, knowing that it would literally force a lot of new students to have to go into debt anyway by getting student loans just to pay for an unreasonably expensive Meal Plan. That is honestly undermining the intent of what a College is meant to be for, and good on the OP for sticking it to the snobs who wanted to take advantage of numerous students who just wanted to have a chance at a better future once they completed their education.
Edit: Given that the University President even showed up in the story and praised OP for their kindness, I'm pretty sure the University President must have been very displeased with the Staff for placing the financial burden onto the Students.
$500 an hour for is not out bounds for high end server consulting. My sister does that as a Oracle DBA contractor.
I gotta love how the college meal story started off as a prank idea but turned out to be really wholesome.
The company charges 500+ an hour. Doesn’t mean it’s OPs money
He literally calculated it from OPs money.
It probably is.
Also since OP slept there, I'm assuming the manager put those on site hours down to so it's more like $250 per hour (18,000/72).
Any sensible company would take their cut before giving the cheque to the employee so if the contracting company takes a share, they probably took it before OP got paid.
@@tigershark2328 Exactly. And since it was a holiday weekend, it was probably calculated at time and a half, making OP's regular wage closer to $167/hr.
The meal plan compliance may have been the best malicious compliance thus far.
Sucks for a few days for the workers but I'd say the means outweigh the cost.
ER doctors and staff really are the best, we do a lot (I am an ER social worker), but we definitely don’t get the credit we deserve, but a story like that, yeah that’s more than enough thanks. I had been seen by a hospital for severe stomach pain and the doctor was like “I can just write in your sick note to be off for the rest of the week”
Geez Dabney the person with the meals story I’ve heard before but it makes me tear up every time bc someone in my area did this for me. It really changed my and my sons life
I worked on a drilling rig too with 2 weeks on 2 weeks off, the drilling companies with few days off were always the cheapest crapiest companies. Get on a big company with 12 hr shifts and equal days off.
It was for staying the entire weekend, and sleeping in the lobby. So $250 per hour for OT.
Story 2: while I didn't do this, I did use my meal plan to help a few homeless around my town. One of them was a retired vet that had got a bullet in the head and caused a bunch of issues. I helped him for 3 years with food, meds, some clothes and blankets. I came from a low Income family, so I really didn't have a lot of extra income and worked 2 8 hours jobs both part time. In year 3 of me knowing the guy he was attacked an ran away. Took me a month to find in and 3 months to finally find his last living relative which was his now deceased mom's sister.
Long story shorten, she came and got him full healthly. Met with me a few months later and he was a whole new person. I miss them, he was so sweet and with being on his meds he was actually talking to me and thanked me.
My brother is a computer programmer, and has worked for Dreamworks for almost 20 years doing back end computer programming...nothing sexy, except he gets his name in the end credits. $500 an hour is about right for a highly specialized field of programming, like writing the back end, very necessary code for a movie.
It’s shameful that most in society are so self-absorbed, or worse, that we can’t feed the homeless children. Bravo OP. Don’t stop
i work in transcript production, we're contracted with courts all around, and some of the experts they call over for cases EASILY charge $700, $900, and even more PER HOUR. so yeah, the first story is very plausible, haha
First story was probably including the time he slept in the office
If you, look, sound and feel like death. You shouldn't be working, you should be snoring
Or shivering in a vain attempt to do so, anyway
The college meal story reminded me of a coworker whose college meal plan was just to put $ on the account. Well apparently her dad would just put an outrageous amount on her card every semester and she couldn’t use it all. It didn’t roll over either. Luckily there was a Starbucks on campus who took their school cards. Kids would load up on cases of water, bags of coffee and even the tumblers. She brought everyone at work a tumbler one semester 😂
It would have been nice if the first op and colleague held out until the one manager finally suggested doing what op had been saying the fix would be
The pettiness of that drill guy was next level. "I didn't get time off so no one does."
Man,I love when greedy 'universities' get a nice back fire. Now help the community on top?, props to op!
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Overtime is 1.5x pay for the first 4 extra hours worked and the first eight hours of work on the seventh consecutive day of work. Then it goes to 2x pay, So the $18K is most likely a combination of the two.
Putting it to The Man (the meal ticket policy) while at the same time helping repair the world is awseome MC.
Dabney, you have a superb, top tier narrator's voice. Why are you not working with movies or TV-shows? Someone seriously should approach you with an offer.
I listen to these every morning and I absolutely love these! Keep up the good work
My husband was a driller & would have never treated one of his hands like that! The tool pusher might, but never my husband.
We went his entire career not seeing him for holidays. He liked getting that double pay. Lol.
the last story, I had the same thing! Doctors never knew what was going on. My schedule was so sparse, that I didn't need a note.
I did leave work early one day because my symptoms got worse.
That college story made my heart melt. Good on that OP
I had a last story moment... i was in the army and injured my knee... after months of physical therapy and 800mg of ibuprofen and water I finally get recommended to see an othro specialist... during this time my supervisor thought i was shamming and faking my knee injury (i had about 13 months lrft when i hurt my knee) and since my profile had the check box of "cant carry a combat load of 75 lbs" checked i had to weigh my gear... which came in at 68 lbs so I was still required to wear my vest with plates during training... saw the ortho Dr asked him to please specify exactly how much I could carry... he wasnt playing this game and put 0 lol ... if I had been a POS I could have gotten out lf doing any hard work... but my section was already undermanned and i was the only sgt and our ssg was a giant POS so I couldn't slack sadly 😢
Story 2, I'll never understand why anyone would be upset about such an amazing deed
Last story: tonsilitis really is the worst I've ever felt. I couldnt imagine working through that feeling.
I had to get mine removed because it was getting to the point of happening every so often, plus huge as the etn doctor put it. They were removed when I was 23.
@Yumi_Jay I was supposed to get my tonsils removed too but then my insurance ran out. So I'll deff get tonsilitis again at some point in my life.
RSlash’s last comment shows that even the honest,down to earth people from humble beginnings can lose sight of reality of blue collared work from time to time.
As much as people would like to take time off from work completely when sick, most people just don’t get paid if off work,therefore a decent number of people can’t take off for long as bills would start piling up.
I am one of these people. Even though I don’t have to worry about getting other people sick as a trucker, I’m still suffering while working when sick. So I get it completely that OP from the last story wanted to work from home rather than just take off.
First story, even if the hours/ math was correct, it's unlikely that OP makes $500 per hours. However, that might be the billing rate: the price his company bills other companies to compensate for time lost from internal projects. This kind of billing is quite common in technology.
For example, at a games company I once worked at one of our programmers made around $60 an hour, but when he spent two weeks helping with an old project -- he had worked on it before it had been sold to a different company -- they were billed at $200 per hour. This was to make up for the fact that he was working on an incremental update/ content release pack for one of our games. Two weeks of lost work meant pushing back the release date which meant tens of thousands of dollars in income being delayed or lost.
"I dont like what youre doing"
"Feeding hungry homeless people? Is that the part you don't like? Or is it specifically that im feeding hungry homeless children that's getting under your skin? I want you to say it out loud."
Story 2: that dude is so amazing. I've been homeless before a couple times and it really sucks.
He's got a heart of gold and i would love to be his friend
3:10 A Roomba that emotes and talks like the Rotom-Dex sounds fantastic!
its bit more complicated then 150%
some countries have rules that saturdays are paid more then 150% and sundays more then saturdays
and if you include night pay it raises wven further,
so my guess is thatOP is earning around 250 - 350 per hours and the rest is overtime + weekendss + nights
My college was pretty chill about meal plans. They didn't roll over but we had a fast food style place that would let you just cash out with boxes and boxes of snacks and sides the last few weeks.
It took me almost a whole school year before i discovered where the food court was at my uni. Its the cheapest place to eat, but everywhere is pretty cheap
when I was in college, way back in 1970. I joined a 3 day fast for peace. WE would give the money we didn't spend of food those 3 days to an antiwar organization. Many of us ate in the dining commons. We paid a fixed price for all we ate, not per meal. Finally, they said we could get sack lunches and sell the contents,so that's what we did.
Oh wow, seeing there being 91 views to 91 likes is just =0 A perfect 1 to 1!!
18000 comes from: 24 hours overtime+holiday, 48 hours overtime. That's why the manager asked where he slept. If he left the premises to sleep, it wouldn't have counted like that, but because he slept inside the business, thats what he got. Still really high wages.
So being under a similar contract to OP 1 no his pay isn't 500 an hour. But his overtime isnt 1.5x either. For me if it's the weekend and over x amount of hours, especially sundays i get paid 3x overtime. Add to that $9 for meals for every 2 hours of overtime (don't know why 2 but hey i ain't complaining) and a couple other addons i usually get $75-85 per hour when working that kind of overtime. And he would (like me) get paid for all hours, not just the 8 hours he worked if he had to stay on site for the duration. But, my managers usually dont let that happen 😂 nobody is being asked to work more than 13 hours in one dah or more thab 5 hours of overtime on weekends. If they ever get close to that the managers step in and do the work since they don't get OT pay.
for the second story i would literally have said to the president of the school, "you have 3 days to make sure that you dont FORCE students to pay for things you want done to your school to make it more attractive or I send out a school wide message telling everyone to do the same with there extra meals that DONT CARRY OVER TO THE NEXT YEAR" and walked away saying " see you in three dayssssss, while laughing my ass off"
No tech job, where you have to do grunt work and have people to answer to, gets paid $500/hour (That is about 1M in compensation a year!!). High-end lawyers do, but that is more due to their billed hours being exorbitant when compared to most other jobs. OT=1.5x is for regular full-time positions; I am guessing OP's contracting firm had given her some really sweet overtime benefits [advantage of consulting through a firm is perks like this even though you miss out on RSU and company insurance benefits).
Lol… been saying this over and over… be careful what you ask for… you just might get it… maliciously 😂
Damn, he last story is like basic sick notes in France, when you're sick you go see the doctor, he gives you a sick note where it's you don't work until x time (usually till the end of the week or a whole week starting the day you saw the doctor) bonus you're often still paid for these days.
I want to hug Op in the second story.❤
I wish smartphones, and therefore apps like the food one, were a thing when I was in college. The iPhone was invented at the end of my time in high school, and I didn't even bother buying a smartphone until Galaxy S4. I wasted so many swipes into the cafeteria at both colleges I attended.
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i wish i knew about that college dining points app before. i had about $300 leftover in my freshman year and i didn’t know anyone who could use it all for me. quite a few people i knew had a lot of money leftover at the end of the year that just went to waste
now we barely have the money to buy food more than once per day from our dining hall and it’s gotten to the point that people steal from it AND other’s meals
I used to work in a commissary and it's funny cause where I worked at employees can't park in the front parking spots because they are supposed to be for customers so I imagine the cashier had to walk all the way out to her car at the end of the parking lot to get her dependant i.d. they did change the rules a few years back and now DoD employees can shop at the commissary now using their cac cards even if they aren't dependants.
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OP didn't just work overtime, OP worked time and a half.
Idk why r/Slash didn't read the words "Columbus Day."
Depends on where the story happened.
Sometimes overtime is 1.5, sometimes consecutive overtime scales up every eight hours, 1.5, 2, 2.5, etc until the week finishes out.
To me it just sounds like normal overtime but for seventy two hours, given the slept on the couch comment. And he would be paid for that as it’d count as on call time.
1st story made me happy then depressed with OP's pay then 2nd story made me forget the depression replaced by warm comfy feeling
I´ve heard a lot of stories of people making good and bad things for others, malicicious compliance, family argument, fights, people going good for others while scruing their company... you get the drill. But the story with the 150 meal plan to feed people, specially poor families with kids is heartwarming on a whole new level. :D
You literally ALWAYS have to have your ID card on you at the commissary/on base. Aside from the Karen behavior at the register I'd swear this was my mom (she's works at a commisary) 😂😂
OP's doctor said "actually, no work for you go rest" and OP is still typing with so much guilt
That first story had me so confused 😮....to many managers for my brain to keep track of lol. And his hourly salary is crrazy
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story 1. 1 days pay for the holiday-8hrs straight time. Not sure how many hours he worked but if he slept on a couch at night maybe 16 hrs a day=48hrs so 48hrs times 1.5=72hrs st time so 80hrs total straight time divided into 16K=$200hr
3:40 Universities work for the customer (the students). They do not get to demand their customers buy things they dont want (such as mandatory meal packages).
That meal plan story is domeghing colleges should do. Any meals not used by the ends of a semester gets donated to the homeless
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It’s likely a tax write off and would increase popularity there by increasing admission rates .
For the second story, it might be more prudent to pad out the meals. Take a few people each week rather than everyone all at once on one day.
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$500 per hour in New York ought to get a guy a palatial 500 square feet one bed, bath, kitchenette room combo.
The college meal story. I bet those little kids will remember op forever & the kindest they showed.
about op on fist story actually depends on op country, most countries its 50% for the FIRST extra hour, and 2x for any subsequent hours, weekends and holidays are paid at least 2x all the time, also op probably got some extra cash from having to stay in the couch.