March 19, 1963
Tuesday, Fair 30’s. We went to Cobleskill in pm. Had a letter from Doug and wrote to him and Marilyn. Earl stopped while we were eating dinner. David worked overtime got home 6:30.
Comment: Afternoon unemployment sign up in Cobleskill. I wonder if David got time and a half for his overtime...probably not....since this was a non-union job. In my experiences, non-union companies would want you to work overtime but not put it on the books so they would not have to pay the higher rate. They would usually offer compensatory time off or ignore the overtime altogether. Kinda like Wal Mart in Oregon when they lost a lawsuit to the tune of $35 million in back overtime pay:
"The lawsuit claimed managers got employees to work off the clock by asking them to clean up the store after they had clocked out and by deleting hours from time records.
It also said Wal-Mart reprimanded employees who claimed overtime. Workers felt forced to work after clocking out because managers assigned them more work than they could complete in a regular shift, the plaintiffs said...CBS News.....". So first line supervisors faked the real work situation because they did not want to upset upper management and the lowest level people who did the actual work got screwed...this is the only "trickle-down" theory that really works.......
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