Quote (balrog66 @ Jan 18 2018 12:16pm)
In Korea you are expected to stay at your job until your superior leaves, and arrive before he does. Which makes for insane hours for the low-end folks. It also means a lot of them aren't that productive, because they just fall asleep at their desk. Which in some of these Asian countries is seen as a sign that someone works hard. Over here it's a sign that someone hasn't got their life in order.
The united states has super long work hours for its employees as well IF you are salaried instead of hourly. Its pretty much standard that if you take a salaried job, you will have weeks where you work 60, 70 maybe even 80 hours.
In the film industry they sometimes need to have people work 24 hour shifts to finish production on a major film and theres no other way to get it done. The way it works is the first 8 hours is normal pay, the second 8 hours is overtime pay which is 1.5 hours pay for each hour. After the second 8 hour shift, you enter “golden time” which means starting with your 17th consecutive hour of work, each hour you work is compensated with 8 HOURS of pay. In other words, you get 8 hours of pay for every hour worked starting with your 17th hour.
This post was edited by Kuggergug on Jan 19 2018 07:19am