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Company trying to hire part-time slave or am I being dramatic?

A company in Canada are hiring for a territory sales manager job. The job is 40 hours per week of direct managing retail channel partner salespeople in two cities over an hour drive apart + 20-25 hours on-call every weeknight for support + occasional weekends that can be swapped for weekdays. Median salary is 66k, no commission, no overtime pay, and a max 10% bonus paid once per year. The job description only says “occasional evenings and weekends required,” but the interviewer says being available every weeknight is required. How is this any different than hiring a part-time slave? I feel like they're trying to hire a full-time employee to work half a second job for $0 per year… They expect you to work full-time, then do another 20 hours for the company out of the goodness of your heart or because you're scared of losing your job? What? Am…


A company in Canada are hiring for a territory sales manager job. The job is 40 hours per week of direct managing retail channel partner salespeople in two cities over an hour drive apart + 20-25 hours on-call every weeknight for support + occasional weekends that can be swapped for weekdays.

Median salary is 66k, no commission, no overtime pay, and a max 10% bonus paid once per year. The job description only says “occasional evenings and weekends required,” but the interviewer says being available every weeknight is required.

How is this any different than hiring a part-time slave? I feel like they're trying to hire a full-time employee to work half a second job for $0 per year… They expect you to work full-time, then do another 20 hours for the company out of the goodness of your heart or because you're scared of losing your job? What? Am I missing something or is this as bad as it sounds?

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