Well, that never happened to me, I’m glad to say. I had low-pay hourly paid jobs in my youth. I spent most of my career, once qualified, on a salary. I am in UK where the employment culture and practices differ somewhat (more so in the past than today, perhaps).
Here, salary implies (used to imply?) you are a ‘professional’ and do what the job demands and not count the hours (but within the context of the contracted/prescribed hours per working week and later EU working hours directive - though it was those on hourly rates who that directive protected most. Salaried people could agree to work extra hours. I always recorded my hours - we had a time recording system, as many staff were billable though I was not so time recording was irrelevant for me. It meant I’d have ad evidence for my nervous breakdown if I ever had one. Anyway, back to the point…)
Contrast the salaried status with an hourly wage, which implies you are a labour commodity to be matched to demand - despite many such jobs being highly skilled and specialised.
