What is unethical as fuck, but is extremely common practice in the business world?

1. The last company I was at would do forced overtime with no notice and would occasionally do 7 days a week 12 hour days. In my area there's a law that you can't force 7 days in a week and at morning meetings they flat out would tell you that they will pay the fine for breaking that law if needed and that if you don't make it in, they will let you go
   — blurrrry


2. I see it primarily with the big companies where I am in the manufacturing circles. Hire a huge wave of temps, sign them on for 3-6 months, usually with the "promise" of full time work with bullshit lines of "We're growing at such a rapid pace! We need people!" only to get rid of them when the contract runs out. Rinse and repeat. That way no one has to pay for benefits and insurance.
   — Cananbaum


3. Insurance company not paying the full coverage amount right away. Example with round numbers: You own a house with a $100,000 insurance policy. The house burns down. Insurance company offers you $50,000 right away if you sign away any claim for more money. If you want the full $100,000 then you will have to wait months or years. You might have to get a lawyer and sue. In the mean time, you have no place to live, and you can’t start the healing process of planning to rebuild.
   — fritter_away






4. Earning bonuses and perks based on numbers instead of quality of work. Right out of college I was the third shift supervisor for a dog food plant. Every once in a while a shift would run a peak efficiency and put out a massive amount of packaging. If your shift managed to break the record for a particular line, the shift and team leaders would get a small bonus and recognition. I come in one night for my shift and 2nd shift was really cranking it out. They broke a record. Turns out that in an attempt to break the record, they somehow missed that the date stamping machine was not accurate. Everything that they packed was now dated incorrectly and could not go out. My shift spent the entire night unboxing everything from the previous shift and dumping it one one can at a time in to wheel barrows so it could be repackaged later. 2nd shift still got credit for the record, and my shift got dinged for no output for an entire shift.
   — middleagenotdead


5. Non-compete clauses in hiring contracts. This makes it so the company can offer a person lower raises in the future, knowing that they cannot work for another company doing what they are good at if they quit.
   — Happler


6. Make people do the work of more than one person with enough pay to support half of a person. Pretty much all part time retail positions. Those companies thrive on overworking people and underpaying them.
   — FirePowerCR






7. Messing with employee's timecards and shorting them hours they worked. An alarming amount of bosses I have worked for didn't see anything wrong with this. Only when the Dept. of Labor came in and told them it was illegal did they change. And no, even if you suspect the employee stole from you, you still can't dock their pay to "cover" for the loss. You can fire them and pursue small claims, but you cannot fuck with their timecard.
   — QueenofMehhs