Why are there so many young brehs/brehettes so against working overtime?

[Yaboysix]

Work overtime And taxes take a CHUNK out yo shyt.
Also, its about your peace,brehs...that's more important than anything. Get Ya rest and mind right

 

[Mashal88]

I assume everyone in here working all that OT have at least a million in net worth or close? Or can FIRE within the next decade if they choose?



Props if so.

 

[Roger king]

it aint all about work especially not when it comes at a reduced quality of life and you can't even enjoy the money you earn

 

[The_Truth]

Not everyone wants to spend their whole life chasing money.

 

[BunchePark]

I'm 40

OT has always been a scam and complete bullshyt to me personally

I can explain why I think this way

Now I don't get paid by the hour I personally make my income off production and a percentage of the revenue I generate

so for example my compensation is 23%

that week the revenue is $35,326

bringing my compensation/income to $8,124.98 for that week (20-30 hrs of actual work)

so it's a simple model more production equals more money

now let's take a hourly job model that most people are being fukked by in my PERSONAL opinion

let's say I get 45 per hour

how in the fukk does my value increase because I passed 40 hrs? what is my TRUE value to the company if they can just miraculously afford to pay me extra because I passed a certain time limit?

did my production increase? what extra value did I bring? did revenue increase? nope

I did the same exact job I did the first 40 hrs

The reason you can afford to pay me extra with no true increase in production is because your really robbing me with the $45 off rip

am I wrong in this line of thinking?

 

[360dagod]

@DuckDemCrackers

Health benefits is the name of the game...

They would rather pay you OT than to hire an extra body and pay them benefits..

So essentially, they do get away with murder

 

[Hawala Man]

After getting taxed and putting up with the bullshyt it's not worth it. The whole work harder mentality is destructive and people found out during Covid there are other ways to make money or create a hustle.

These corporations will offer OT but don't care about the work life/balance. Know plenty of cases where folks had their spouses and family members die and when they took time off that same position job was given to someone else.

 

[The ADD]

When is he leaving for the new job?

 

[Cakebatter]

OT is convenient if you are saving for some splurge item: Sneakers, Watch, vacation, engagement ring, etc. I've worked with dudes who did it around Christmas time to buy more/better gifts for their kids. Beyond that, that extra 10 hrs/week is better invested in training for a higher paying career or new position. 10hrs/week learning a new skill can be worth way more than the OT pay longterm. As said earlier in the thread working 10hrs of overtime every week isn't going to drastically change your lifestyle financially. It can negatively affect your social life and emotional wellbeing though. OT is not a financial come-up, never was.

OK, I'm going to partially debunk what I said before. If you take that OT money and invest in some high risk asset that ultimately blows up, then those OT hours become gamechanging. Emphasis on the qualifier, "High Risk".

I don't know if it still exists, but there use to be a thing where if a holiday occurred on a day you were working OT hours the 1.5x pay turned into 2x pay. Now, that was nice.

 

[nairdas]

fukk that shyt. Working 40hrs a week is too much as it is. America making that the standard work week was some bullshyt.

 

[Jazzy B.]

BECAUSE overtime is a SCAM.

Why work overtime when you can get a job with a higher salary that STILL allows you to work your NORMAL hours?

 

[Darkman]

Man yesterday I sat on m truck for 6 hours sleeping waiting to get unloaded at a restaurant depot, all overtime…. shyt let me get that or all day especially if you have a cdl and I’m seating right now waiting for this ShopRite to open up a bay door 8 hours of ot easy money

 

[LDC]

So how else are young adults with $0 net worth supposed to stack up money to provide for themselves? Enlighten me

I don't think the mindset is strictly a younger generational thing, tho. If the older generation (their parents, some of us) was so big on overtime/stacking money till you stroke out themselves, wouldn't these kids have been raised in better situations that would have probably set them up to have more than $0 net worth today?

Nothing wrong maximizing your $$$ but at the same time I'm with the "work sucks" crowd so I can't be mad at anybody not wanting to do that shyt at a shytty job/multiple shytty jobs for 70+ hours a week. Especially if there's a good chance you still end up poor. Smarter not harder.

 

[JNew]

Overtime is ok if you need a few extra dollars but you don’t want to rely on it.

I used to work overtime as a teenager when 200$ more was a lot to me and when covid first hit and I was stuck working from home. I’d work 60 hour weeks to pay of my student loans quickly. I only did it for 2 months and was able to pay everything off.

It has its benefits. But it’s always better to either budget for a few months or find a better paying job if you can.

 

[MoveForward]

They’re fukking lazy… You don’t live on overtime, sometimes you just have to grind it out for six months to a year and that can set you up proper for years to come.