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Jon
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Message 31 of 58 (744891)
12-16-2014 3:30 PM
Reply to: Message 29 by New Cat's Eye
12-16-2014 9:32 AM


Okay, then how would you change the text of the law?
I imagine the law in question is several thousand pages long; editing the text itself is probably beyond my ability and patience.
Nevertheless, I think we can still have a reasonable discussion about what laws are good laws, which laws are bad laws, and which laws need changing.
I thought the supreme court made an adequate argument, did you read it?
Not entirely.
Do you have a link?
What I said is that employers should be expected to treat their employees decently, and part of that involves paying them for the time they require them to be at work.
I don't think anyone has disagreed with that.
Then what are you getting at in this thread?

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Jon
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Message 32 of 58 (744892)
12-16-2014 3:31 PM
Reply to: Message 30 by ringo
12-16-2014 10:54 AM


I would take the queue time as an opportunity to hang out with my co-workers rather than as an inconvenience.
I would take it as a half hour of pay I am losing from my other part-time job that isn't being compensated for by the employer demanding that I wait in line to satisfy their curiosity.

Love your enemies!

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New Cat's Eye
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Message 33 of 58 (744893)
12-16-2014 3:53 PM
Reply to: Message 31 by Jon
12-16-2014 3:30 PM


I imagine the law in question is several thousand pages long; editing the text itself is probably beyond my ability and patience.
Nevertheless, I think we can still have a reasonable discussion about what laws are good laws, which laws are bad laws, and which laws need changing.
In my opinion, there's no point in discussing the quality of laws if we are not looking at the text of the legislation.
I thought the supreme court made an adequate argument, did you read it?
Not entirely.
Do you have a link?
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/13-433_5h26.pdf
Let me know which parts you disagree with.
Then what are you getting at in this thread?
They ought to pay them, but they're not legally required to nor should they be.

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NoNukes
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Message 34 of 58 (744943)
12-17-2014 2:21 AM
Reply to: Message 30 by ringo
12-16-2014 10:54 AM


I would take the queue time as an opportunity to hang out with my co-workers rather than as an inconvenience.
I don't want my employer scheduling mandatory fun for me. To be frank, this stuff matters primarily to hourly employees who may very well have second jobs. I find it absolutely bizarre that an employer would find ways to occupy an hourly employee's free time without compensating him.
The statute as I understand it, is intended to identify things like walking to work or standing in a clock out line that are not productive for the employer. I have some sympathy for that. But I have no sympathy for an employer who occupies employees for activities that do benefit the employer without providing compensation.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
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petrophysics1
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Message 35 of 58 (744945)
12-17-2014 5:01 AM
Reply to: Message 34 by NoNukes
12-17-2014 2:21 AM


Why not to be an employee
NoNukes,
I haven't been an employee since April 1985.
I make contracts with people.
Let's see how that works compared to you or others more or less.
I only work by the day, the rate is $1250/day. No half days no standby no anything else.
To come to the location you pay me $1.00/mile, at my present location I drove 876 miles to get here.
You have to pay within 10 days of my invoice.
I get no vacation...I don't work I don't get paid.
No medical or other crap like retirement. I do that myself.
You don't pay unemployment insurance or disability, that's all stuff I do.
Either of us can cancel this contract at anytime for no reason.
This is only for adults, if you are a child of the state, or need people to take care of you, get used to kissing someone's ass.

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Theodoric
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Message 36 of 58 (744954)
12-17-2014 8:53 AM
Reply to: Message 35 by petrophysics1
12-17-2014 5:01 AM


Re: Why not to be an employee
That would be the difference than an employee and an employer. Do you expect your employees to spend uncompensated time at work?
I don't think you made the point you think you are making.
Edited by Theodoric, : Employer should have been employee oops

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts
"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.

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ringo
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Posts: 20940
From: frozen wasteland
Joined: 03-23-2005


Message 37 of 58 (744961)
12-17-2014 10:50 AM
Reply to: Message 32 by Jon
12-16-2014 3:31 PM


[qs=Jon]
ringo writes:
I would take the queue time as an opportunity to hang out with my co-workers rather than as an inconvenience.[/qs=ringo]
I would take it as a half hour of pay I am losing from my other part-time job that isn't being compensated for by the employer demanding that I wait in line to satisfy their curiosity.
Well, I can see it wouldn't be much fun waiting in line with you.
Is your time really that valuable, Mr. Self-Important?

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ringo
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Message 38 of 58 (744962)
12-17-2014 10:58 AM
Reply to: Message 34 by NoNukes
12-17-2014 2:21 AM


NoNukes writes:
I don't want my employer scheduling mandatory fun for me.
I'm talking about making the best of a "bad" situation.
You're probably the guy who waits five minutes in line at the supermarket and then wastes another five minutes whining to the cashier about it. And I'm always behind you.
But I'm busy talking to the cute chick who's rolling her eyes at your antics.

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Jon
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Message 39 of 58 (744987)
12-17-2014 4:02 PM
Reply to: Message 33 by New Cat's Eye
12-16-2014 3:53 PM


http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/13-433_5h26.pdf
Let me know which parts you disagree with.
It's one big rambling excuse for them not doing the right thing.
Then what are you getting at in this thread?
They ought to pay them, but they're not legally required to nor should they be.
Then that's the argument you need to make.

Love your enemies!

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Jon
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Message 40 of 58 (744988)
12-17-2014 4:05 PM
Reply to: Message 38 by ringo
12-17-2014 10:58 AM


I'm talking about making the best of a "bad" situation.
That would be accomplished by either paying the people for waiting in line or hiring more screeners so that there isn't a line in the first place.

Love your enemies!

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New Cat's Eye
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Message 41 of 58 (745026)
12-18-2014 9:22 AM
Reply to: Message 39 by Jon
12-17-2014 4:02 PM


Given your response to the Supreme Court's argument, I'll refrain from making mine.

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ringo
Member (Idle past 412 days)
Posts: 20940
From: frozen wasteland
Joined: 03-23-2005


Message 42 of 58 (745036)
12-18-2014 10:45 AM
Reply to: Message 40 by Jon
12-17-2014 4:05 PM


Jon writes:
ringo writes:
I'm talking about making the best of a "bad" situation.
That would be accomplished by either paying the people for waiting in line or hiring more screeners so that there isn't a line in the first place.
I'm talking about ME making the best of a bad situation. It's much more practical to change my own attitude than to try to change the company's policy.

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ringo
Member (Idle past 412 days)
Posts: 20940
From: frozen wasteland
Joined: 03-23-2005


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Message 43 of 58 (745039)
12-18-2014 10:49 AM
Reply to: Message 35 by petrophysics1
12-17-2014 5:01 AM


Re: Why not to be an employee
petrophysics1 writes:
To come to the location you pay me $1.00/mile, at my present location I drove 876 miles to get here.
I presume you drove on roads that you built yourself? Or do you have a childlike dependency on the state's roads?

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Jon
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Message 44 of 58 (745048)
12-18-2014 12:16 PM
Reply to: Message 42 by ringo
12-18-2014 10:45 AM


I'm talking about ME making the best of a bad situation. It's much more practical to change my own attitude than to try to change the company's policy.
Personally I can agree. I am not one to push back.
But I can easily understand others pushing back, and I even appreciate the fact that they do.
Just because I am the bend-over-and-take-it type doesn't mean I expect everyone else to be.
Jon

Love your enemies!

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ringo
Member (Idle past 412 days)
Posts: 20940
From: frozen wasteland
Joined: 03-23-2005


Message 45 of 58 (745049)
12-18-2014 12:24 PM
Reply to: Message 44 by Jon
12-18-2014 12:16 PM


Jon writes:
But I can easily understand others pushing back, and I even appreciate the fact that they do.
In the long run, the pushing back costs you just as much as what the company is doing. Ultimately, the individual pays for everything.

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