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I'm feeling the well-deserved smug on behalf of that guy. I once quit a job that refused to pay me overtime after a year of working for them as the sole employee/manager of the shop. It took two employees and both owners being there full-time to replace me and they still went out of business. I didn't even do anything special when I worked there, just had genuine interactions with the customers so they came back, and made them feel confident in and happy with their purchases. Guess they couldn't do that.
Wow, like they would force you to work just under the limit to qualify for overtime, or wouldn't pay overtime owed? Because that's straight up wage theft!
I notice businesses that try to be "savvy" by taking shortcuts and skirting labor laws tend to collapse themselves once they run out of employees that are way too good for them and won't put up with it anymore.
Glad you escaped.
The original agreement was that I'd get at least 40 hrs/wk instead of 20 (bc they'd hire another employee to avoid paying overtime) and then after a year I could get overtime. I genuinely loved that job and all the customers thought I was the owner. They just refused to come back after I quit so the shop failed. I got my regular wage for anything over 40 hrs, just no overtime, so it was still better than salary ig.