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by mdifrgechd
2038 days ago
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This is silly - it's more about the mismatch between the custom of buying a person's time and paying for the outcomes an employer is looking for. The flip side of this is that employees are stealing from their employer whenever their attention wavers from the job, for example talking with co-workers or texting or web browsing or whatever. The reality is that hourly pay is almost always a poor approximation for the expectations between employer and employee. Calling any deviation from strictly kept time for an employee in 100% service to their employer "theft" is just silly, whether it's an employee chatting about their weekend, or an employer asking for some extra minutes. Each should (and outside of artificial constructs like this article does) weigh total compensation against benefit / effort and decide if the relationship is worth continuing. |
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Really fucking hard to do that if you are an employee with no power, easily replaceable and dependent on the job to keep you and your family alive.
This kind of hand waving real social struggles down to "they should just personally negotiate and be able to walk away from the deal if it's not good for them" is, at best, myopic. At worst is a lack of empathy and a very narrow worldview of labour.