Does this guy know that? No. So Cooper can use that as an excuse and get away with it. He shouldn’t have to devote his entire life to his job – that’s an unreasonable expectation.
There is, actually. Salary doesn’t mean you’re on the clock all the time, just that you’re being paid a set amount of money to do your job regardless of the amount of hours it takes to do it*. You aren’t required to work when you aren’t on the clock. Though this may vary from place to place.
*Most retail jobs won’t allow you to work less than a standard amount of hours without punishment or a cut in pay, however, but that’s more about policy than it is about labor laws which as we all know salary is skirting in the first place.
Funny but in previous strips Marla and others were finding it impossible to get out of the store whether on break or leaving for the day without boatloads of customers asking for help. For someone like Val if she helped customers it ate into her break time. But for some reason they never said “I’m off the clock.” I wish they had. Customers have got to learn to respect the employees as human beings who get breaks and have an end to the work day. Same goes for those fools who show up after the store is closed and demand to be let in.
I’m willing to bet that societal pressures are different for Marla and Val for saying something like “I’m off the clock” than they are for Cooper. Is it fair? No, but it is reality and so Cooper can get away with it, whereas Marla and Val would probably get reported to Stuart or someone else at corporate and get reprimanded, even though they were totally within their rights to tell the customer to ask someone who wasn’t off the clock
You’re salaried, coop. Technically there is no “off the clock” for you.
Does this guy know that? No. So Cooper can use that as an excuse and get away with it. He shouldn’t have to devote his entire life to his job – that’s an unreasonable expectation.
There is, actually. Salary doesn’t mean you’re on the clock all the time, just that you’re being paid a set amount of money to do your job regardless of the amount of hours it takes to do it*. You aren’t required to work when you aren’t on the clock. Though this may vary from place to place.
*Most retail jobs won’t allow you to work less than a standard amount of hours without punishment or a cut in pay, however, but that’s more about policy than it is about labor laws which as we all know salary is skirting in the first place.
The customers don’t respect our breaks since we’re not human to them.
Funny but in previous strips Marla and others were finding it impossible to get out of the store whether on break or leaving for the day without boatloads of customers asking for help. For someone like Val if she helped customers it ate into her break time. But for some reason they never said “I’m off the clock.” I wish they had. Customers have got to learn to respect the employees as human beings who get breaks and have an end to the work day. Same goes for those fools who show up after the store is closed and demand to be let in.
I’m willing to bet that societal pressures are different for Marla and Val for saying something like “I’m off the clock” than they are for Cooper. Is it fair? No, but it is reality and so Cooper can get away with it, whereas Marla and Val would probably get reported to Stuart or someone else at corporate and get reprimanded, even though they were totally within their rights to tell the customer to ask someone who wasn’t off the clock