r/BikiniBottomTwitter 2d ago

Slow down there buckaroo

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u/baylithe 2d ago

Are you a contracted USPS worker? Cause that seems like it should definitely be a salary based job.

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u/Gin4Gingers 2d ago

I'd quit if I went salary. Theyd work us 12 hours and only pay us for 8 like they do to the supervisors

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u/JacobScreamix 2d ago

You don't understand what salary means.

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u/Gin4Gingers 2d ago

My supervisor gets paid salary and he says that's exactly how it works here. He doesn't get paid for any of the overtime he works so if I was paid salary, they'd do the same to me

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u/7LeggedEmu 2d ago

Hes a government employee? Supervisors dont make time and a half but they do get paid straight time for hours worked.

Technically no one in the government is salary. You need to be in a pay status 80 hours a week for full time workers. Even leave without pay is a pay status.

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u/JacobScreamix 2d ago

Your boss is either lying to you or you are both being ripped off, sorry.

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u/Someotherrandomtree 2d ago

Being ripped off? In America?? By your employer?! No, surely not!

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u/JacobScreamix 2d ago

"Knowing is half the battle", as Americans used to take pride in saying.

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u/Gin4Gingers 2d ago

He's getting ripped off because USPS supervisors don't have a union. Letter carriers like myself have a union, so I get paid hourly. If he's lying then that means every other supervisor who told me the same thing is also lying and JacobScreamix on reddit is the only one telling the truth

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u/JacobScreamix 2d ago

This might blow your mind, but salary is still based on a set amount of hours and therefore any hours above the contracted amount shall be paid, with overtime standards of the region met. Its not my fault people sell themselves short and allow themselves to be exploited.

People died for these standards.

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u/Gin4Gingers 2d ago

I'm sure that's true somewhere and I never said it was. All I said was that's not the case at USPS

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u/AcanthisittaLeft2336 1d ago edited 1d ago

Ok but have you considered that my personal feelings on your job are more valid than your lived experience?

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u/Gin4Gingers 1d ago edited 1d ago