Every job has a way of keeping track of hours worked. I’ve had over 50 jobs in my life. In the old days you wrote your hours down on a sheet of paper called a time sheet. Recently I had a job where your time was tracked by logging into your phone. Using different codes you could be working, enjoying your lunch break, even going to the bathroom! At my latest job, hours are tracked on the cash register. When I clock out at the end of the day I get a receipt.
“This is kinda cool,” I said to my manager. “Getting a receipt at the end of the day. I’m gonna keep this for my records. I don’t even have records. Do you have records?” I ask him.
“I used to keep those,” he says. “I didn’t trust T__.”
“Ha hah,” I say. That was the end of the conversation.
That brief exchanged made me realize: “Jobs just don’t rip you off.” That’s been my experience. I’ve been over paid far more times than I’ve been underpaid. You may not be able to trust that your job is secure, but you can trust that they will pay you for as long as you work there.
