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[–] 24 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The double-edged sword of western labor. Your options are:

  • Work hourly and get some middle manager rolling dice to see which hours/days you're scheduled for every week, the day before the timesheet goes out.

  • Work salary and get sucked into late night deployments, lunch meetings, and assorted overtime projects you don't receive pay for.

They catch ya comin' and they catch ya goin'

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Is this an US-specific problem?

    Monthly salaries with hourly compensation for overtime is a thing too

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I've never heard of a job that paid on those terms. Historically, you've had hourly contracts on a fixed schedule, so you were functionally guaranteed a minimum number of hours. But modern service workers operate under Zero Hours contracts that don't guarantee any kind of minimum.

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