[UA] Is this UA, or just retarded?

[Ryan Fitch-Davis]

Well, the simple answer can be found in The Formula (vide Fight Club.)
The cost to settle potential /individual/ suits is less than paying you
all according to the law. My brother the lawyer reffers to this practice
as 'the efficient tort'... which he also believes is /wrong/... (as
opposed to the 'efficient breach' where a contract is not honored but
since it doesn't cost anyone anything, nobody cares.)

This sort of behavior is commonplace, and only rarely does it blow-up in
a company's face. Last one I can remember making news was the
tire-blowout problem on Ford Explorers. Less widely known is Microsoft's
willfull violation of their consent degree involving illegal ties within
their product line. This costs MS a million dollars a day for each day
they are in violation, which they gladly pay as the illegal advantage
gained is greater than that.

Now that said... I am NOT an authority, so please be polite when you
inform me I'm wrong. :)

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 00:56, Cassady Toles wrote:
> So, the company I work for had this tendancy not to give the state
> mandated (in California anyway, your state may be different) two
> fifteen minute breaks per shift. Despite being told on multiple
> occasions that if one needed a break and requested it, one would get
> it, there were weeks when I got less than one a night on average. For
> the record, asking didn't make a difference. As a result, an employee
> sued (I wasn't them). Since then, there have been numerous attempts to
> make sure employees knew that they could get breaks by asking, and
> please don't sue, and they'll change.
> 
> There is a very similar law in California that states if you work more
> than seven days in a row without a day off, you get OT until you get a
> day off. The company breaks this one all the time.
> 
> My last day off was Tuesday, Next week's schedule listed my next day o
> ff as being a week from Friday. That for all those of you who are
> mathematically impaired is nine days in a row.
> 
> I had to explain to a manager that either he could A) bump at least
> one day off to earlier in the week, B) pay me overtime, or C) expect
> me to call the labor board. After a long involved conversation with
> this particular individual who has been promoted to his level of
> incompetence, he promised to get me a day off between the fifth and
> eighth day of that work week. The gist of the conversation was that
> the company won't stop ILLEGALLY SCHEDULING people for overly long
> work weeks avoiding OT by paying attention only to workweeks, but I
> shouldn't have to deal with it personally.
> 
> So, I'm shutting up because I need a job, and it isn't my problem at
> this point.
> 
> Is it just me, or shouldn't ONE lawsuit be all the warning a company
> needs to get its act together and look at all the ways it's ILLEGALLY
> mistreating its employees and work on all of them, or does someone
> need to sue over each and every little one.
> 
> As I said, is there something UA in this or is it just insipid?
> 
> Cassady
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> Cassady belongs in vaudeville. Expansive(loud), Charming(overblown),
> and possessing a wicked Wit(loud), he has to be my first choice of
> friends to be drunk with on the streets of an unfamiliar city. Having
> a remarkable affinity for tactics and crowd control, Cassady will be
> one of the few prepared souls should zombies attack. Cassady is a
> loyal friend, and implacable foe. Forces of nature would do well to
> step aside should he get his mind set on something. Other than these
> things, however, he bears almost no resemblance to Flaming Carrot. The
> rumor that Cassady's doomsday machine is nearing completion, and that
> he plans to use this leverage to rid the world of gopher repelent
> salesmen, is almost entirely unfounded. 
> -Ben Breedlove
> 
> 
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