Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be searched, court rules

Los Angeles Times ^ | 02/13/20 | MAURA DOLAN

[BlackbirdSST]

Why work someplace where you have to be searched?

I worked many years in Space/Defense. You are required (rightfully so IMO) to submit to being searched entering OR exiting those facilities. I also worked in/out of minimum to maximum security prison facilities and you ain't been searched until you've enjoyed that! (TSA style) I was actually treated better entering and exiting the Federal Reserve facilities. There at least you were personally monitored during your entire visit. I was once told by my escort that I seemed to be a bit more than mesmerized by the whirring printing of money. I was told I needed to avoid giving that appearance or they would pull my badge. He said it with a steely glint so I took him seriously.

Maybe it was the drooling that gave me away.

[Nothingburger]

That’s what I get for typing a post before I’ve had my breakfast.

My comment still stands, however ... for both companies.

[lowbridge]

"Amazon treats its people like inmates, or so I’ve read."

[Nothingburger]

What can I say? Thanks for that post. LOL!

[Still Thinking]

I’m self employed and travel for billable work occasionally. I bill at full hourly rate from the time I leave my front door till I reach the city where I’m staying. Check into hotel, stop for dinner, whatever. Once in town, I commute off the clock (I’d be commuting if I were home anyway), and bill only for time once I arrive at the customer till I leave for lunch or in the evening. Return trip home, same as trip out.

[Still Thinking]

I worked many years in Space/Defense. You are required (rightfully so IMO) to submit to being searched entering OR exiting those facilities.

Same at mines, especially gold mines/mills. You're subject to search, including your vehicle if you took it in the gate with you, but it happens maybe once in 50 exits, and takes like 10 minutes. No big deal, and I can see why they have the policy.

[Oatka]

They assigned work the day before and often techs would be given jobs 100 to 150 miles from the office and the policy was you started your day at the first job.

George Orwell wrote of Brit miners in the '30s not starting to earn their pay until they got to the actual coal digging site - sometimes having to walk a mile in the tunnel to get there.