r/Maliciouscompliance I Cost My Greedy Landlord $250,000

As a German I spot so many illegal stuff when listening to those stories about employees and the us work system: Work time that is rounded and not exactly measures your time at work. 75 hours a week on a regular base. Expected unpaid time on a regular base and so on. How is it even possible that an entire nation let themselves treated that way by employers and not work on their laws to improve their system?

It is criminal how many industries in America have made wage theft and expectations of unpaid labor a matter of corporate culture. But an employee who insists on taking his earned benefits gets punished by that same culture.

Americas weird hate for people sitting down at work, is so strange.

For the last story, OP isn't "working" the extra 15 minutes. The system at my last job did this, too. Let me give an example: Suppose OP is scheduled 9-5. If OP clocks in at 8:53, it rounds it up to 9:00. If OP clocks out at 5:07, it rounds it down to 5:00. OP worked 8 hours and 14 minutes, but the system only counted the 8 hours. If instead OP clocked in one minute earlier, 8:52, and out one minute later, 5:08, the system would round OP's clock in time to 8:45 and clock out time to 5:15. This would mean OP worked 8 hours and 16 minutes, but the system was consider it 8 hours and 30 minutes, netting OP 14 minutes of extra time for the day. At my old job, it was common to use this system to extend break time. If you started your break at 11:23 and clocked back in at 11:52, the system would round it to being from 11:30 to 11:45, so you took a 29 minute long 15 minute break

Non-profit story: Sounds like they fell victim to one of the classic RSlash blunders: Never mess with the IT guy

rSlash was a little too excited to read OP's name on that first one. 😂

Story 1: Yup, I used to work at an airport for a particular airline who forbade chairs at the ticket counter. Never mind the fact you could have someone out there standing with minimal if any movement for 8+ hours. No chairs! Their reason? “It looks unprofessional.” That’s it. Even the proposed compromise of “Have chairs along the back wall so the agent can rest in the potentially hour long stretches with no customers, and has to stand to approach the computer to help a customer,” was shut down without even a crumb of consideration.

Story 2: Basically let OP drive up the value of the house with new stuff, come up with a BS excuse to kick them out, and then sell the house to make a profit. Replace that last bit with "Rent out with a higher rent cost" and we get a classic greedy landlord move. But he did make the mistake of demanding ALL modifications removed, so bye bye 700K

Schedule - This story is way too common in retail. See, it's not about rules, rather, OP's boss is harassing them purely to prove that she's in charge. I had a manager once tell me and my brother we "weren't worth the hours" after she had cut ours unreasonably low. Of course, she ended up leaving because she was a trashy person and was making everyone angry, even the other managers. But what really appalls me is that she had the gall to reapply. Fortunately, she was told no.

Just because it’s a “non-profit” doesn’t mean people aren’t making bank. There are many non-profits that have 70% or more going to salaries with executives making hundreds of thousands or even millions. There are many very good charities like the Make A Wish foundation. But there are also many scams, some of whom like to trick people into thinking they’re the good one, like the Kid’s Wish Foundation. The latter wants you to think they’re are the former while spending almost all the money on executives and very little on helping sick kids.