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this has to be satire
One would hope that a message THAT tone deaf wouldn’t have even made it to the keyboard before realizing what a catastrophically bad idea it was.
Yes, of course there are plenty of workplaces this bad, but they still wouldn’t write “voluntary mandatory”
After meeting many a middle manager, I can say with absolute certainty that they would write something like this.
Tell me you live in America without saying you live in America…
Required to be by the phone = on the clock. This will be a lot of overtime for everyone.
This is incorrect in most states.
Employers can require an employee to be “on-call” and available to work on an emergency or as-needed basis. Employers are generally not required to pay employees who are “on-call,” unless the employee is actually called to duty. However, if an employer places significant restrictions on how an employee spends their time while on-call, this time may need to be compensated as hours worked.
The tenth circuit of appeals came up with this test to determine if the employers restriction constitutes on call hours as hours worked.
Where the employee is not required to remain on the employer’s premises, the critical inquiry is whether the employee is able to use the time effectively for his or her own purposes. Here, the report requirement necessarily entailed that the employee could not drink alcohol, must be able to dress in uniform, and must be able to travel to the airport, park, and pass through security within one hour of a call. She was not able to make or attend doctors’ appointments for herself or her children, do her weekly shopping, nor go on field trips with her children. The court compared these circumstances with many FLSA cases presenting similar, or even more restrictive, circumstances involving availability by pager, inability to drink alcohol, and ability to report within 30 minutes or one hour. In the FLSA cases, it was determined that the employees’ activities were not so curtailed as to require the on-call time to be considered compensable working time. The court followed this precedent.
Ahh yes, voluntary mandatory, just like life imprisonment death sentence.
The appropriate answer to that is the full staff making a chorus and singing to the bosses “FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUU! WE’RE LEEEEAVING!”
Sounds like the company needs to increase its bus factor. Luckily, I can help the company by not doing any of this nonsense, to pressure execs into hiring more staff so that the team is robust enough to weather a catastrophe.
Pour one out this Memorial day for anyone stuck working for such a massive powertripping cunt as the one that wrote this.
I bet they’re also the type to loudly exclaim “no one wants to work anymore” when no one answers their calls at 4 in the morning.
This is the kinda job I like to get just to fuck with management.
I need your drive, man. I work at a university. People are mostly nice, but I still get annoyed with it.
Nah, you gotta pull this shit as a part timer unless you’re already retired/independently wealthy. Don’t fuck with your actual career or income.
every time someone tried to call me in i would say i’ve had alcoholic drinks; they shut up pretty quick after that.
7/10 meme, I got a chuckle when I saw “mandatory voluntary “
On call rules AND on call pay, or STFU. Your staffing problem isn’t my problem and I can contact legal authorities if you do write me up for having my phone off or just not coming in.
