Urban Outfitters parent company asks employees to work for free

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(10-09-2015, 11:09 AM)GMDino Wrote: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/251538

So after SSF's post and a little more searching I found the above article which basically says they do this all the time, employees do not complain and all is good.

But it also says:


Would be "nice" if they had people who would actually make a few buck do the job too.  But there's less profit in that so they turned it down.

Good for the employees for "stepping up" but still crappy that they want "free work" (which it is from the salaried employees...whether that is "expected" or not) rather than to pay OT to the hourly ones.

I think part of this is so that salaried people can understand what the hourly people have to go through,  every day.
I think they turn away the hourly volunteers, as they would work circles around the salaried and embarrass them.