I just wanted to get opinions from the community on a situation I'm currently experiencing and have a bad taste because of.

I'll remain anonymous about the company, just to make everything a little less bias. But understand that where I work has hundreds of people round the clock there.

If I'm scheduled from 4:00 P. M. to 1:00 A. M. Can they make me stay any later than that? They keep trying to drill (well, "they", but it's one single member of management saying this) into us that if the "assignment" isn't complete by 1 am, we HAVE to stay. No "you can" or "the hours are there" but we CANNOT leave until it is done. Completely done.

I've mostly researched that people are like "why complain", "free hours", "at least you have a job" and quite frankly I find that nonsense. I'm scheduled from x to y and that's it. I personally feel that it has to be against some kind of labor law, but obviously if by some stretch I do go over they aren't penalized for it.

To be clearer, this manager means whether it takes ten extra minutes or two extra hours that's how long we have to stay. I've considered going above this managers head about it, but I'm really not that kind of person. We are also understaffed beyond all reason too. Today for example, (I'm at lunch right now) we had a a really light night. But, company rules say regardless we should have 11 guys and there's only five. So, on a nightly basis we do the job of 11 with anywhere from as little as 3 to as many as 7 guys. So, I feel like the expectations are set at a level unattainable by us and by **** am I gonna to pay for the ineptitude of the hiring department.

So, just let it rip and don't hold back. I need to hear others take on the matter and see if I'm in the wrong or if the company is doing something illegal or just morally reprehensible.

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