23rd July 2013, 06:01 PM
Crocodile Wrote:Never understood this mentality. If any job requires that you be there fifteen minutes before you are getting paid to be there, then this should be your start time and this is time you should be paid for. Most working people already dedicate a substantial amount of unpaid time toward their job and their working day, breaks, travel time, washing work clothes and cleaning equipment etc, if you think low paid workers need to dedicate another 58.25 hours for free, then knock yourself out. It's as if the eightees never ended.
My background is in construction. Even if I am 15 minutes away from site I now feel compelled to have a slurp before the day on site starts. Therefor, I get there at least 15 minutes early, even as a volunteer. You start work at x o'clock, not got there, stretch, have a cuppa, a fag, think about what you're doing, then eventually start at x.45.... Or am I wrong? I dunno. New to all this.