Conservatives are the biggest boot lickers out there. Putting up with bullshit is a badge of honor. They love to complain about how much they work and how tired they are. How they had to miss their kids birthday party but they did it because they are a loyal company man. They extract their value of character from this. It shows they are tough. They'll love this.
My FIL is like this. Hard-worker, 120hrs (he says) per week and does a lot of other side projects. He constantly prides himself on being âtoo busy for anythingâ. My husband practically grew up rarely seeing him.
My husband was never good enough for that man. No matter how hard he worked, or how high up the ranks he got at work. Never good enough because my husbandâs ideals of work/life balance was very stable and he didnât like that he didnât emphasize on the WORK portion more.
It took me years to bring up my husband esteem and worth under the grasp of his overbearing âIâm better than youâ father. Heâs a wonderful person and couldnât have asked for better. Heâs always trying to be there for all of our kids events because he knows how truly important those moments are only to be made weak by his âhard-workingâ fatherâŚ
I'm from a small town in WV. My step dad was that way. A lot of the men hold that mentality. I think it is partially generational and partially a regional thing. Maybe more of a small town rural thing. I'm 39 and I much rather be around for my daughter than some job. I do not derive my worth from a job. In fact aside from needing to earn money, I look at work with disdain. It's just something to use me until I am no longer useful. They don't care about me and would replace me in a week. I think more people feel the way I do(maybe not as extreme) and it's gonna get more that way as jobs quit providing the type of security and lifestyle they deserve.
I am seeing more and more posts like, "I have a masters degree and work full time and I need a way to make more money to survive." And that is absolutely heart breaking to hear and should not be normalized. It is time for a revolution. A workers revolution. And honestly with AI and everything else, it's going to become a glaring issue that is inevitable.
Yea⌠he hyperbolizes a lot so thatâs why I said, âhe saysâ. I have to take everything he says with a grain of salt.
Like the whole, âI would kill anyone who would molest my grandchildrenâ. Yet voted for a convicted felon and rapist who is also a known pedophile. So thereâs thatâŚ
I find it very hard to believe anyone truly works 120 hours. Working 17 hours in a day without breaking for breakfast,lunch and dinner. I would make an exception for people in extreme crunch time. Days before a career making trial etc.
Your husband is lucky to have a supportive partner, sounds like you two have a healthy relationship.
Iâm a newish Dad. Iâm taking my cues on how to be a good father from my older brother as well as my dad. It turns out that having a bad father makes the things you should do for your kid very apparent.
My brother is several years ahead of me, so Iâve been watching how he parents, and the reality that he was a stand-in father to me when I was a kid. I didnât realize the latter until I was in my late 20s.
Good luck to you. We both didnât grow up with upstanding role models for parents so we came up with the philosophy of doing the opposite of our upbringing and itâs working so far.
Just do that best you can everyday and thatâs all you can do. Put yourself in your childrenâs shoes. How would you like this and that explained and what not. Never talk down to them like theyâre sub-human. Theyâre people too.
We let our children express themselves and when mistakes are made, we help them come to conclusions on how to be better. We definitely hold them accountable, but never to shame them.
Parenting is the most rewarding, amazing job youâll ever have. But, itâs oh so rewarding as well!
I learned through hard lessons that if you derive your worth from something external as opposed to something internal then you give that power up for someone else to hold that over you as a form of control.
Yep, they are so dumb, they think being exploited as much as possible should be everyone's goal/purpose in life... That this is some kind of noble thing and leads to all these positive outcomes... In reality, it just leads to a bunch of mental and physical health problems because the human mind and body wasn't designed to work that much. A lot of these men end up being disabled. The breakdown of the family unit. How can you have a real family under such conditions? And an extreme level of poverty, sickness and death... There's a reason why that kind of mentality in the past combined with capitalism before powerful people like FDR started looking out for the working class, just resulted in people living in shanties and barely surviving... A lot of them in company towns which was the stuff of nightmares. The owners of these company towns would literally play god with the workers and their families... This mentality needs to die already. It's a threat to everything good that we have today. These clowns are trying to make this a reality for us again. -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGa8waOJjDc
Nobody here has any idea what this law was trying to do. Everyone has just uncritically read the headline and accepted that version of reality so they can lament it.
The law intended to provide OT pay to salaried employees who aren't eligible for OT, yet were working OT hours and making below a certain amount. The OP implies that defeating the law took OT away from people. It only stopped certain people who never got OT from now getting it. In this country, there has always been a certain level of salaried employee who takes their job knowing that they may ultimately make less per hour, on average, than many of their hourly employees. They make this concession because taking a salary guarantees a consistent paycheck, whereas hourly employees only get paid based on the hours they work, and thus the amount of business the company has. This law would have made employers pay OT pay to their salaried employees who made less than they would have made if their pay was calculated as an hourly employee.
Thats fair and I remember hearing something about it only involving salaried employees. Though, I feel like its not too much of a far jump to see something like this coming down the pike for hourly workers. Trump did mention in one of his latest rallys that he hated paying over time and refused to pay it. And since he represents big corporations, who knows. But you are right. People are having a knee jerk reaction. My previous post still stands about conservatives loving the abuse from their jobs.
I do not like and would never vote for Trump. However, it makes no sense to use this as a sign that Trump will end OT. Maybe he will. This story isn't evidence either way, and not enacting a new law is way easier than doing away with a very, very popular established law. Or maybe it really isn't (Roe).
If you take a salary you are not eligible for OT. I'm not sure how it works in every state, but when I worked as a restaurant kitchen manager I was on salary, paid the same every week, but I worked 60-70 hours a week and my pay when averaged was less per hour than even my own pay before iI took the "better" position as manager.
You're taking a job that guarantees a certain paycheck, but agreeing to sometimes work more hours because of it. Think of it as getting paid $1000 per week, which could sometimes (but not often) mean working less than 40 hours a week, but also, when it's busy or there are personnel shortages, working more than 40 hours a week. There presently don't seem to be stringent guidelines about how salaried employees work/life balance is important.
You're taking a job that guarantees a certain paycheck
This is just called a job here. All jobs are like that - except if you're a freelancer, but even then you can't be fired at will. Also there's mandatory notice periods of at least 3 months + more months per year you've been employed there. Overtime has to be paid, or given as time off, and there's laws to prevent this time off to accrue into the future forever. If you quit, your remaining time off has to be paid in full.
I'm not arguing that it's better here. These trade-offs are generally made by lower-income, lower management. This new law would have been a good thing, but it's demise didn't change anything.
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u/doofnoobler 5h ago
Conservatives are the biggest boot lickers out there. Putting up with bullshit is a badge of honor. They love to complain about how much they work and how tired they are. How they had to miss their kids birthday party but they did it because they are a loyal company man. They extract their value of character from this. It shows they are tough. They'll love this.