I work at a horrible company (quitting soon) that pays employees minimum wage and treats us unfairly. Our only cleaning lady recently quit, and now they want employees to do cleaning, along with other things not in our job description. Is that fair?
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Meg
ANSWERS: 11
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It's not fair, but it's legal... I would get out of there. If you quit, and file for unemployment, you might get it if you list things like this on the paperwork.
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Fair? Questionable (Do YOU make the messes?) Legal? Probably, unless they ask you to do it off the clock. There are MANY companies that are trying to save money, now-a-days, and one of the ways is to have the employees do some of the work of others, like cleaning people. Now, if they ask you to do it OFF THE CLOCK, NO... I don't think it's legal... It's OVERTIME. (PLEASE don't take my word for this... I'm NOT a lawyer, and I don't know what state/location YOU'RE in.) If you do it on the clock (regular working hours) then you do it. (We packed, unpacked, moved, filed, sorted, and did all types of other things... But we were salaried, and to us, it didn't matter. When they asked us to come in and do that stuff on our (normally) off-time, we DID complain about it, but did it anyway. Too many of us NEEDED the jobs, and in Indiana, they can fire you for nothing.) Cleaning is not that bad of a job in an office or store setting. In a factory, it would suck, but still be MUCH better than NOT having a job. Good luck. ;-)
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Employers are not interested in fair, they are only interested in growing the business and making money. They hire people to help them do that, not to be fair. If you aren't interested in helping the employer make money, then it's a good thing you are leaving. The two of you are not a good fit.
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This happened to Dilbert and he decided to stay. (Smile.) But...Dilbert is a fairly-well paid technocrat. Answer: it is not fair for a low wage earner to be his/ her own cleaning person; but often people leap without a net. It will not be "fairer" to yourself to quit without having done a thorough job search that won't have you jumping from the fire into the frying pan. I'd say it's a warning shot which tells you this is the final straw you really REALLY need to look for work immediately.
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You get paid by the hour to work, what does it matter what you are doing to earn the money, he isnt asking you to do anything illegal. You are always going to have to certain jobs in life that you might not consider "your job", when you work for a company you are supposed to work as a team to make sure everything gets done, chip in when you are needed.
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Everything happens. If you don't clean, who would clean...you will keep it dirty. than the manager says you don't care about the place you work in.
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Get a copy of your job description when you were hired. I was a cashier but I cleaned because I liked to keep busy & I loved my manager
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Desperate times call for desperate measures, it's said. They can ask you to mop the floor and even though it's not in your job description (and you might want to check that under "various other duties as assigned/requested), you are pretty much at the whim of your employer. Unless it creates a disparate effect upon a particular ethnicity I would assume it's legal unless you live in a state that has some law against that specific thing. Times are a bit hard right now and likely to get harder before they get better, so don't jump ship unless you have the Coast Guard waiting.
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There's a jerk in every crowd, and employers will be no exception. Just quit!
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You should burn the place down ! FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE GOD WANTS YOU TO DO IT don't do it.
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as hard as this will be, put all your energy into getting another job with another company and remember - your next employer will write to your current one asking for a reference - in other words, don't slag them off too much or do anything detrimental as regards your next job. Keep your trap shut and spend your time using their internet connection and email to look for other jobs/send out CV's en-masse. Be wise and do not draw attention to yourself - let others do this instead (and then nobody will notice what you are doing in the meantime).
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