Do you like overtime?

-- The Huckle-Buck (), May 11th, 2004.

This...kind of sounds like me, but not quite.

(but I get to hang out with filmstarz0rs)

However, I'm not sure what makes one salaried or hourly. Pretty much every job I've ever had has been "salary," yet I still have an "hourly rate" on my paystubs; however, no-one has ever offered to pay me time and a half anyway.

"does your job require any kind of thought? Yes? No overtime for you!".

Now I'm not sure if this just applied to time and a half, or any overtime pay AT ALL.

This is me too. Except I get a special rate for overtime and offsite work.

- Mandee (still at work)

this person pressures people to 'volunteer' for events, often using other staff people to do the organizing. in particular, one guy is usually put in charge to round up 'volunteers' and everyone does it so this guy won't get in trouble. people are still reluctant so chief started offering unofficial days off for this 'volunteer' work, which according to my state website is illegal.

also, isn't offering people unofficial days off a potential trap? it's not cleared through hr.

it's all done to make this person look good.

However, I did get paid 1.0x rate for the weekday excess and 1.5x rate for the weekends I worked. Unfortunately, my 'reward' for all this stirling service is to be promoted into a position I didn't really want (all my other options disappeared) where the possibility of doing hours like that on a regular basis is increased (some members of the department I'm moving into are permanently 80-90 hours in credit) and, due to my new-found mid-management status, I won't really get paid for o/t.

As I keeping pointing out to my superiors, my pay rise is completely cancelled out by the everpresent potential for unpaid o/t (if you work 48hr, you get paid for 44hr; if you work 60hr, you get paid for 44hr and get 12 back as time-off-in-lieu). "But not everyone in this position has worked excessive o/t - look at XXX and YYY." "XXX and YYY no longer work here - they resigned due to stress ([thinking] and cos they think senior management are functionally incompetent)."

Marvellous.

of course it didn't stop there, we had to leave a restaurant because her boss' boss was eating there.

UNPAID OVERTIME WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I'm working around 70-75 hours this week, and I'm going into hour number 12 of today. But strangely, the longer I go today, the more I get really into it. I'm getting more and more work done the longer I go. I'm contemplating going another 4 hours.

if people in their 20s wouldn't be so stupid about overtime they could probably avoid getting completely fucked over by their employers so often

that's me telling you to go home, you nincompoop

Well, it's not because I have an insane work ethic or anything. It's because I've been procrastinating on this white paper all summer, and now it's due in a few days. Despite getting some compliments this week from bosses and coworkers, if I fuck this thing up, I pretty much fucked up the summer.

oh well then that's only sort of unpaid overtime. work smarter not harder.

golden time = i'm there

At this point, I pretty much have to work as hard and as smartly as I can. I feel good about this paper, though. I only wish that people's eyes wouldn't glaze over as soon as I even mention the topic, but I suppose that's understandable (it's on the comparative costs of electricity from different resources, modeling levelized future costs using different scenarios for fuel prices and CO2 regulations). But instead I'm sure 2.5 people will end up reading it - my boss, some really bored guy at another non-profit, and someone who will read half of it and toss it away.

EDIT: oops, hour 14, not 12.

Working 5-10 hours overtime a week when you have nothing but your job going on can be pretty sweet. It's a significant extra boost of cash that I always welcomed in my bored, lonely days of unskilled labor full-time jobs.

THIS, however, is when I worked for businesses that actually FOLLOWED THE LAW on paying time-and-a-half. I have worked for two small businesses that definitely did not. One of them, when I complained about my 60-hour (graveyard shift!) workweeks getting snubbed on time-and-a-half, she tried to offer me a $250/week salary. Uh, no way. The paychecks I got from them would bounce every once in a while. The other made me argue that I'd even worked at all. I started keeping a journal of everything I did, each hour of the day & we still fought about this. Her checks went through, at least.

I can't much give props to small businesses. I mean, I know there are some good ones out there, but a lot of them are just wicked fucked up.

I'm looking forward to writing back and forth to myself here in about 4 hours.

i have worked on two mansucripts for a total of about 35 minutes work since 12:30 this afternoon. i want to go home.

I did love it when I was hourly, but I'm salaried now :/

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