Voluntary Mandatory rule

One would hope that a message THAT tone deaf wouldn't have even made it to the keyboard before realizing what a catastrophically bad idea it was.

there's a lot of stupid, ignorant assholes running small businesses all over the place that think they own their employees and can boss them 24/7. this could totally be a legit posting somewhere.

if you want me answering my phone 24/7, you're paying me 24/7--and providing the phone you want me to answer.

Yes, of course there are plenty of workplaces this bad, but they still wouldn't write "voluntary mandatory"

This is basically how Golden Corral works their staff

It is

This is incorrect in most states.

Employers can require an employee to be “on-call” and available to work on an emergency or as-needed basis. Employers are generally not required to pay employees who are “on-call,” unless the employee is actually called to duty. However, if an employer places significant restrictions on how an employee spends their time while on-call, this time may need to be compensated as hours worked.

The tenth circuit of appeals came up with this test to determine if the employers restriction constitutes on call hours as hours worked.

Where the employee is not required to remain on the employer's premises, the critical inquiry is whether the employee is able to use the time effectively for his or her own purposes. Here, the report requirement necessarily entailed that the employee could not drink alcohol, must be able to dress in uniform, and must be able to travel to the airport, park, and pass through security within one hour of a call. She was not able to make or attend doctors' appointments for herself or her children, do her weekly shopping, nor go on field trips with her children. The court compared these circumstances with many FLSA cases presenting similar, or even more restrictive, circumstances involving availability by pager, inability to drink alcohol, and ability to report within 30 minutes or one hour. In the FLSA cases, it was determined that the employees' activities were not so curtailed as to require the on-call time to be considered compensable working time. The court followed this precedent.

This is probably by some small time business owner who never heard of HR, since preventing this liable shit is exactly HR's job.

It's basically all of the content on r/antiwork after that community decided to throw itself off the golden gate bridge over an awkward interview that didn't even fucking matter, on Fox "news" of all places

Yeah, this is a pretty sad bait for Internet points. The AI BOTs are getting lazy.

Official company policy being printed and posted on the refrigerator... totally legit. SMH

Totally. Pretty sure it would be illegal of an employer to ask this here in the UK, probably the US too.

because of corn flakes I have no foreskin

Some some people may not believe this shit is actually ilegal in mexico. There's a limited list of cases where firing an employee is actually justified, without obligations for the employer. Otherwise you're entitled to a 3month compensation.

There are, of course, employers who decide to challenge this and drag payments, but still...

You will be a great asset to the company. Great great asset to the company

Go team!

The true question would be: "how can your son best serve the company"? He has more years ahead of him that can be spent in servitude than you, so you are already obsolete.

I totally understand the overall ridiculousness of this, but I suspect that "mandatory" and "voluntary" apply to 2 different people in this case. Person 1 has a "mandatory shift" and person 2 is supposed to voluntarily cover that person's mandatory shift.

I need your drive, man. I work at a university. People are mostly nice, but I still get annoyed with it.

"sorry boss. I can beat serve the company by making sure I'm well rested for my normal, scheduled shifts. Can't come in."

Tell me you took a night course in business without telling me

Voluntold

this isn't real, man

I got a job at Subway when leaving the army, mostly out of boredom. Told them the only day I cannot come in is Thursdays, that’s when I go into the VA for my deployment issues. Put that is writing, got hired. They also had something like this where you have to always be on call. They called my on Thursday in the middle of a counseling session, so on Friday I was fired.

Turns out, the FAFO is strong with this one. The VA asked if I put it in writing, “Yes, here is the email”. Several weeks later the fine leveraged against the owner was so high she had to sell the business. She called me, asking when I am coming back in (I could tell it was being recorded, could hear the static) and I laughed and told her you can’t record me, and you fired me, then hung up.

Turns out shitcanning veterans who just got back from a deployment during the height of “we all love Murica!” gets you zero sympathy from anyone.

So much passive aggressiveness and cynicism in just two words. I’m impressed.

Cant tell if this is a meta meme or real. Please slow the internet down, I want to get off.