so i did the math... and i worked a total of 70 and a half hours this past week

congrats

Thats a lot

But how much MONEY did you make for working those hours?

hmmm... i will let you know this coming friday... both jobs pay bi-weekly
ugh

My thing is this-

If you're gonna put in THAT much time at your work, you should be making at least a decent amount of coin. If that isn't the case, then you're being taken advantage by your bosses. And the whole put-in-a-buttload-of-hours-for-little-pay thing seems to be a standard thing with the twenty-something crowd nowadays- the nameless, faceless, suits who run the business are literally banking on the young'uns putting in tons of hours for the chance to "work on up", when all they're doing is not being fairly compensated.

And when you finally DO realize that you're being shafted and speak up about it, you're replaced by some other twenty-something.

These kinds of shenanigans come courtesy of our corporate-business-friendly government, which has seemed to be all too willing to shaft the working person for the sake of the corporate good.

Woooo Hooo amen and this is why I walked out right in the middle of my shift at where else...Denny's and I am not even 20 something I was 31...arsholes

the whole 70 hours arent just for one job... i have two... lucky me huh? Trying to afford a down payment for a new car because well... my current one is no longer safe for me to drive... yet i still drive it anyway.... and then theres rent... and bills ...ect

It gets REALLY bad when working in the film biz, where you can EASILY do at least eighteen hours at a stretch, if not more than that.

And that would be fine, if the producers would pay up on all that glorious overtime. While some production companies DO pay up on what they owe, most seem to wanna go out of their way to try to screw you out of money.

Case in point- I was working as a "set *****" (that's set talk for an on-set technician) for a television show back in 2003, and I was turning in some MASSIVE hours. I'm talking sixteen hours at a minimum, and sometimes over TWENTY hours for a maximum.

So I'd turn in my time card, thinking I was gonna be rolling in dough. But imagine my surprise when I'd get my paycheck and (surprise, surprise) the numbers just don't jive. I go to the production manager to ask about what the HECK is wrong with my paycheck, and his response was-

"Oh... we can't have you racking up that many hours, so I took it upon myself to change your hours." I kid you not- the buffoon thought he could get away with just scratching my hours out and scribbling in some different times on my time card.

So I went to National Labor Relations Board and my union local to get the situation corrected, which resulted in no significant action on either parts. In fact, the union rep who came to "investigate" my grievance against the production company told me to "be lucky I even HAVE a job".

So I went into INCREDIBLY low gear from then on out. What would take five minutes would mysteriously take twenty minutes. What would take twenty minutes would take FORTY minutes. And I was in no hurry to get the job done, either.

So heed my words- above all else... make sure your money is squared-away before anything else. It's not about greed, either- it's about just compensation for your time and your expertise.

yay you