Re: Hourly vs Salaried

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Well, that was very informative.

On 8/03/07, Curmudgeon wrote:
> Wrong.
>
> On 8/03/07, Michael wrote:
>> I was recently hired as a salaried employee. I began the
>> job, with the stated office hours of 8:30 to 5:00. I
>> arrived at work between 8:15 and 9:00 and worked till 5:00
>> to 7:00 every day. One day I was done with the immediate
>> work I had to do and told the secretary I was leaving
>> early, about 4:30. The next day the owner spoke to me when
>> I arrived at 9:00 saying "I thought we were clear on the
>> hours." I need you here 8:30AM to 5PM. I know sometimes
>> you work late and that's nice but not required. I was
>> thinking that he doesn't know what salaried vs hourly
>> means and he SHOULD have hired me as an hourly employee.
>> So time went on and one day I came in late, about 9AM. He
>> gave me a verbal reprimand, to which I apologized and
>> decided just to treat the job as hourly, as that was what
>> he was expecting. The next day I was told to take a job
>> home and complete it over the weekend. Now I KNOW he
>> doesn't know what salaried vs hourly is. I have to work
>> 8:30AM to 5PM period. (That's a time figure, not a task
>> related figure.) AND I have to work whatever other hours I
>> am asked. Isn't this illegal? It's one or the other,
>> right? Either you do the job, or you do the hours. An
>> employer can't ask you to stick to hours when it suits
>> him, disallowing you the advantages of salaried
>> employement where you are not so constrained by the time
>> as much as the task, and then treat you like a salaried
>> employee when it suits him, disallowing you the advantage
>> of hourly such as overtime, right?