• Mongostein
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    3 months ago

    School bus companies do this too. They only pay for driving the route, not the time at the yard pre-tripping and getting ready, not the drive to the route, and not the drive back from the route. Just the route.

    It’s fucking bullshit.

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      3 months ago

      From what I understand, flight attendants as well. They don’t get paid until the door closes and stop getting paid when it opens.

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        I wonder if Alaska made an attempt to claim the attendants on flight 1282 stopped working once the plug door blew and were therefore ineligible for pay lmao

        On the one hand, that seems so stupid to even conceive of that it’s clearly a joke. On the other hand, you know some penny pincher MBA in Alaska’s corporate office thought about it seriously for at least a moment or two.

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          Coincidentally, I just watched the John Oliver segment on Boeing recently, and after that, I honestly would not be surprised.

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          At Alaska Airlines? There was absolutely a guy thinking about that, and it wouldn’t surprise me if it was the CEO. The current CEO was the CFO who failed to properly fund maintenance costs and killed over a hundred passengers.

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      3 months ago

      As someone who’s done delivery trucking (fuel in a pickup to remote areas affected by CA wildfires) how the FUCK is that legal?

      I had (as does everyone in CA) to fill out a manifest that included what I had on my vehicle, all delivery and loading stops, how much was delivered and / or loaded at those stops, track down to within 5m of error when I was on-duty (pre-trip, loading at rack, dropping fuel, basically anything where I’m not IN the truck), driving, and break time.

      Not filling that out was a write-up, not having it on you while driving is a ticket (for you personally), and they HAVE to pay you for the pre-trip as it’s work being done.

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        3 months ago

        Basically any job that pays by the mile isn’t paying you for your pre-trip