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Today's Keyboard Smash
Jul. 22nd, 2021 05:02 pmI, like a fool, have taken on an extra shift. Again. A shorter one this time, thank fuck. I wasn't sure they would go for that, since they have sometimes opted to get in a snit and insist on a full eight hours, even though people are volunteering to work on their day off, but it seems less appalling minds have won out this time.
It's not for my sake that I'm doing all these extra hours (not that I mind the extra money, of course). They're freaking out because our lead time is longer than they want. To which I say, hey, maybe consider not promising product and scheduling jobs for a 100% full roster of operators when a) we had one person out on extended leave, b) we just lost two out of three people in our support staff positions, and c) it's been a fucking pandemic and people kept missing work because they had to quarantine after exposures. (That last bit should tell you that this scheduling situation has been going on for A WHILE.)
But in a roundabout way, I am doing this for my own benefit. I'm hoping that, if we get enough people coming in voluntarily now to knock out some of the jobs ahead of schedule, we'll avoid them implementing mandatory overtime. I did that for a month. Twelve-hour shifts, to boot. Sucked ass, my dudes. To say nothing of the horror stories I've heard from people about the five months of mandatory overtime that ended shortly before I started with the company.
(Side note: I am unclear on how you can make overtime mandatory. Oh, I'm aware that companies do it all the fucking time, but still. I have some labor law-related questions about that.)
So my thought is, better to take the extra hours now, when I CAN dictate just how many I pick up and when (ish), than to let things get bad enough that they don't give me a choice. That being said, jesusfuck, I am u n h a p p y about this.
It's not for my sake that I'm doing all these extra hours (not that I mind the extra money, of course). They're freaking out because our lead time is longer than they want. To which I say, hey, maybe consider not promising product and scheduling jobs for a 100% full roster of operators when a) we had one person out on extended leave, b) we just lost two out of three people in our support staff positions, and c) it's been a fucking pandemic and people kept missing work because they had to quarantine after exposures. (That last bit should tell you that this scheduling situation has been going on for A WHILE.)
But in a roundabout way, I am doing this for my own benefit. I'm hoping that, if we get enough people coming in voluntarily now to knock out some of the jobs ahead of schedule, we'll avoid them implementing mandatory overtime. I did that for a month. Twelve-hour shifts, to boot. Sucked ass, my dudes. To say nothing of the horror stories I've heard from people about the five months of mandatory overtime that ended shortly before I started with the company.
(Side note: I am unclear on how you can make overtime mandatory. Oh, I'm aware that companies do it all the fucking time, but still. I have some labor law-related questions about that.)
So my thought is, better to take the extra hours now, when I CAN dictate just how many I pick up and when (ish), than to let things get bad enough that they don't give me a choice. That being said, jesusfuck, I am u n h a p p y about this.
