Seeing this post made me flash back to how often wage theft happened to me during holidays as a teenager.
4th of July, New Year's... Didn't even know about time and a half.
Fuck, you Americans are getting ripped off. Here the legal minimum is 2.25x pay for public holidays (Australia)
1.5x? Are ya serious? That's like the lowest tier of overtime. Or sunday penalty rates.
For real, I can't believe people aren't even getting that.
(Illegal underpayment still happening here, aside).
Even then, it's by state. Some states have no holiday pay.
I once worked a job where if I was five minutes late or had to leave early the shift before or the shift after a holiday I would forfeit my holiday pay. That's when I learned that holiday pay isn't guaranteed in the states. Never worked another holiday at that job again.
That's rough .
Only Rhode island and Massachusetts have it for hourly workers.
Had a (roughly) similar experience when I used to work for a construction company. Once, a job was behind schedule, and they asked us to voluntarily work on a Saturday. Virtually everyone did, because working on a weekend got you time and a half pay.
Instead of a full day, though, they sent us home at lunchtime. Nobody was expecting that. One guy summed it up pretty well: “I got up at 6 AM on a Saturday to make less than I did yesterday? This is bullshit!”
After that, whenever our bosses asked if we’d come in on a Saturday, someone asked if it would be a full day or a half day. When our bosses said “I don’t know” (which is what they said every time) nobody came in.
They got away with exploiting us once, but completely screwed themselves in the long term. I was (and still am) very proud of my coworkers for continuing to hold management accountable for their decisions.
Everyone focuses on the typo when dude did an awesome thing. Reddit doesn't allow title edits and GBoard is shit at producing the words you want, and then dude gets a bunch of Tina jokes.
They got screwed thrice; by their boss, by Reddit, and by their keyboard
Yeah, but they chose to use Reddit and gboard. Like 2/3 self-inflicted.
I mean, blame Gboard all you want, they didn't proofread something that can't be edited later
That's 100% on them and they deserve the Tina jokes
They also deserve praise for what they did in the OP
Tina and a half? Do people not proof read?
Oh it's meant to be "time and a half". Took me a while!
At first I thought they were making a sly joke by using the actual employee's name.
I thought it was a bob’s burgers reference I didn’t get cause I don’t watch it.
There Is No Alternative. Tina.
Speaking of people who get exploited for inadequate pay ...
This is what I was picturing the whole time
Mistypes drive engagement.
The shit that is done nowadays to farm engagement is ridiculous.
No, this is correct. They get paid in methamphetamines
Who the heck is Tina?
Uhhh
Huh! Huh! Huh!
Autocorrect typo for “time”.
That llama from Napoleon Dynamite?
tina, eat the FOOD! *fling!
You fat lard!
I hated this movie when it came out, rewatching it with my 10 year old was fucking hilarious. he was in tears at Tina's part.
A half of tina is a pretty decent chunk of meth, you probably don't need that much.
SOB's. Thinking they are entitled to have poor Tina... And the half bit is extra worrying.
Starbucks may deserve all the stick that they get for their labor practices, but here in Canada on holidays they pay double time and a half (or about CAD $50/hour).
Are they staying open because there's marketing value in being open on a holiday, or because there's business as usual money to be made. If it's not for some extra marketing purposes, this just lays bare how much more money they could be paying folks and still remain profitable.
Overtime and holiday pay was meant to disincentivize manufacturing companies from overworking their people and not letting them spend time doing frivolous things like being with family on holidays. The difference between the cost of labor and the value of labor was so small back then (after decades of negotiating, union action, and bloodshed) that a simple 1.5x was enough to disincentivize it under most circumstances. It's so vast now for the service industry that they are willing to pay 2.5 times as much.
I've never gotten Tina and a half... 😔
Damn I thought this was my local grocer for a quick second.
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