title, im paid by the hour so im wondering if its calculable the amount of time id need to be clocked in n not work to match the surplus value extracted from me
or am i stupid n misunderstanding surplus value
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No because you end up spending even more time just getting paid for the time stolen
Your boss makes a dollar, you make a dime, you'll be spending 10 hours making that dollar and that's if you manage to not do any more work during that time. But unless you're free to do your own thing during that time you're giving up even more time just to recoup the prior stolen time
I hate thinking about this shit now because I'm losing 5 minutes clocked in every single day just because some nerd loser app developers updated the app and my phone (from 2015) is too old to run it so i can't clock in in my car anymore and my locker is downstairs and the time clock is upstairs
and they force me to take an unpaid break, which I used to support conceptually because otherwise employers would pressure workers to skip breaks, but how I really fucking hate because it's just 30 more minutes I'm at this place not being paid. Since I cook food I basically actually rest whenever I'm done with my shit. I go sit down whenever it works with the timing of everything. Unless I'm pushing myself to Go Hard and prep up for the next day I have plenty of break time and if I don't it's 99% because I'm doing it to myself. So I kinda resent this fucking administrative bureaucratic nerd bullshit of "take your unpaid break, you have to clock out at least 25 minutes and then clock back in for at least 5 for every 7+ hour shift"
On that note I really thought PAID BREAKS were federally mandated, every shitty retail job I've ever had involved at least two PAID 15 minute breaks and one unpaid 30 minute break for every 8 hour shift.
I effectively get them anyway since I go sit down for 20-30 minutes to eat on the clock after I get my lunch food out, but like, why the fuck isn't that shit a guaranteed given
the new phone will pay for itself after ( phone cost / ( hourly rate / 12 ) ) days
EDIT: I forgot about taxes