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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are not talking like a team player. It's a free lunch, which you say you partake in and a chance to network with coworkers. 
But here you are quibbling over getting "cheated" out of an hour's pay a few times a year in exchange for the above.
You are not valuing team-building company events. 
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"Team Player" = when I am getting paid. If its my lunch break I am not getting paid and there is no team and I am not playing.

Company events should be paid if mandatory. Implicitly or explicitly mandatory. [/quote]

Is this OP again?    Do you clock in and clock out, like a fast food worker, for example who rightly has pay protections for overtime and shift differentials?  Are you a nonexempt employee who is either on the clock or not?

If not, lose this mentality.   Your boss is watching.

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I am not OP but OP states they have a contract from 8-5 with a 1-hour break. There are some companies that work like this and will pay for overtime over 40 hours. My company is one such company because as another poster has so eloquently pointed out most companies expect a minimum of 40 but only pay a maximum of 40. If I have to use PTO to take an hour doctors appointment but I am still working 40+ hours the whole idea of exempt employee is a sham.  [/quote]

The claim is that you will get bonuses and promotions as an exempt employee to make up for extra hours worked.   From my experience is the bosses buddies he goes for drinks with that get the bonuses not the long hours get things done workers, but maybe your workplace is the exception [/quote]

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