A recent Reddit post has people calling out the things their bosses don’t want them talking about. It asks, “What’s something employers would never want employees to know because they would lose millions?” A thousand responses have come in and these are some of the most helpful and interesting.
- "Any time your employer requires you to do something, you should be clocked in. Meetings, trainings, and arriving early to 'start your shift on time' should all be considered time on the clock and you should be compensated for it. I've heard many managers/bosses in the past tell teams not to clock in for things like brief meetings, which is wage theft."
- "You're allowed to talk to your coworkers about pay. The amount of people I've run into who think discussing wages is honestly a crime absolutely blows my mind."
- "Just because something is written company policy doesn't make it law or legal. Anything can be argued in a court and policy that blatantly breaks the law or infringes on your rights won't hold up."
- "You can claim unemployment in the US even if you are still working. If they cut your hours enough to the point you're no longer making the same kind of money you were, you can file for unemployment."
- "They actually can afford to give you a higher salary but choose not to."
- "Most jobs don’t actually need 40 hours a week to get things done. If you cut out pointless meetings and unnecessary tasks, people could finish their work in way less time."
- "If you work for a large enough company, they literally have a department that pays people just to make sure unions don’t get formed. It’s usually called something like labor relations and the main crux of their job is to assess unionization risk of every move the company makes."
- "They don't want you to know how much value you actually bring to a company, especially if you work in administrative, low-paid positions. These jobs enable companies to make a hell of a lot of money."
- "HR is not there for the benefit of employees."
- "You cannot be fired for jury duty. Most jury duty summons will explicitly state this outright on the summons itself. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to your face."
- "Printer ink cartridges cost like nothing to be produced. See also: insulin."
- "The dead peasants clause. Basically, the company that you work for gets to take out a life insurance policy on you, the employee. That way if/when you die they are then able to collect most of what you have been paid throughout the years."
Source: BuzzFeed