Would You Work for no pay?

[Dips]

Those of you in the US who would work for free for a friend/employer who owns a for-profit, please be sure to keep quiet about it. It's illegal. If the DOL finds out, your friend/employer could get into trouble for violating labor laws.

And your friend/employer would have to take into account that anybody who worked for him for free could come back later and sue him for back wages plus interest. That could hurt the business and everyone else in the long run.

That said. Yes, I've done some free work for friends and family who own small for-profit businesses. I was visiting from out of town, they were working, and it made sense to help out a bit while I was hanging out with them at their business. The business owner knew he or she was accepting a risk by trusting me. And, since I like these people, I'm not going to mention names.

But in most situations, it's really much safer for your boss if you take a temporary wage cut (as long as you don't go below minimum), a reduction of hours or go on a temporary unpaid furlough (in which you don't get paid and don't work). The owner of the coin shop where Mr. Dips' works has reduced the number of hours they are open and reduced the number of hours everyone works to save money. That's perfectly legal.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Not only no, but hell no. I have bills to be paid.

Agreed. I don't work for free cuz get this, I don't get food for free, electricity for free, rent for free, petrol for free... etc etc etc.

[cinema guy]

Last year staff at JCB were asked to cut their hours. Redundancies followed a few months after that. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/s...re/7824718.stm

I know I'd be pretty pissed off if I cut my hours/worked for free and then was still laid off.

At the start of this year the GM cut payroll hours and I was really struggling to pay my bills. I really wouldn't volunteer to go through that.

[candyshopgirl]

No because I absolutely can not afford to. If a company can't pay its employees then it really shouldn't be in business,its time to close shop.

[AdminAssistant]

Not only No, but HELL NO.

University wants to save some money? Have Coach Self work a year with no pay, I'm sure he can afford it. I work for ridiculously low wages as it is...and I actually make more than many other GTA's in the humanities.

[taxguykarl]

Agreed. I don't work for free cuz get this, I don't get food for free, electricity for free, rent for free, petrol for free... etc etc etc.

Me either, hence my NO vote. Do you really believe that the organization will give back pay when it returns to profitability?

[Becks]

The only way I'd work for free was if someone else was taking care of all my expenses. So hell no.

My thoughts exactly.

Besides, I don't like my place of employment enough to do that.

[dendawg]

To state the obvious:

HELL NO!

I don't care if the company is going tits up, I've worked my hours and earned my pay, and you'd damn well better pay me! If you couldn't have afforded to pay me, then why wasn't I laid off?

I don't work for free, under any circumstances. Even if I was rich as Bill Gates, I wouldn't. Sure, I'd be philanthropic and all that, but I still wouldn't work for free, because my name ain't Charity! I'd donate to charity, but I won't be one![/rant]

[Bandit]

No. No. No. FUCK YOU NO!

If I work for free, its some charity work, and it's my own time - I can do whatever I feel like.

Lets see the suits that have $500,000 worth of cars in their garage spend a few months working for free before asking us grunts to do it. Sadly these days 1 Suit = 7-10 grunts.

Must. Avoid. Rant. Now.

B

[SG15Z]

Hell to the no! Not when the CEO is making some $23 mil a year. I'd rather get another job.

[AirHostess]

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA this post is very relevant to me

HELL NO I am not working for free. I don't know anyone who would.

[powerboy]

I voted for HELL NO. Just maybe if the company was willing to pay my bills and gave me a gas card, until I got paid again. But I highly doubt that.

[crazylegs]

I did wonder when you'd see this PKAH, and I figured you'd probably fall off your chair laughing when you first heard about it!

[It shouldn't]

NO!!!!!!

If they can't afford to pay me, then lay me off and I can get unemployment.

There isn't enough hours in the day right now for me to get all my stuff done at home. Why would I want to be coming to work for free, no wait I would have to pay to come to work (gas for car, lunch, etc) when I could actually get some stuff accomplished at home.

[Sheldonrs]

"would you work for no pay?"


No. Would you pay for no work?