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Wage theft can take on much more insidious ways, too. If you have an unpaid lunch, and someone asks you to perform a work-related task, or even asks a quick question? That just became paid time (or should, anyway).

If your asked to complete required training at home and it's framed as "you can do it while watching TV?" Same story.

Want me to "hop on a call" on my day off? You bet. You know my applicable hourly rate.

I should note that these examples are all management requests. If one of my coworkers needs help, I'm coming.

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Yes to ALL of this.

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I didn’t need up working 6 days in a row after all. The person I was doing the shift cover took over one of my shifts. But if she didn’t, my boss was still going to punish me by making me work a long stretch.

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Your boss sucks.

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This happened to me as a 16 year old! I had completely forgotten until I read this. I worked at Dairy Queen. One night I was on the closing crew, and our store manager was supervising. When we closed, we all had to leave together. I finished my closing duties, and asked my manager if I could clock out and she said "I already clocked everyone out." Like you, I also didn't say anything. But seriously, wtf?!?!

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It happens every day. It's so gross!

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In my first job, it was assumed that everybody would stay at least one hour longer. And the official starting time was 9am finishing at 7pm (with 2 hour break for lunch that nobody could use to go home in a big city). Go figure. Many times I was there until 9pm or more.

I was 24 and single, but my colleagues with families struggled a lot

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Dammit. It happens so much.

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So glad to see it stated clearly and avoiding the euphemisms. Stealing from employees. Exactly! Another way we let corporate welfare disastrously function.

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Yup!

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