Wow, I hope all companies aren't like this.
So, I work at a job where the majority of our work is based on government contracts. Our team put in a good 10-20 hours of overtime one week to meet a deadline. The team manager asked the boss if we could get compensated for these hours, to which the response was essentially, other companies expect 50 hours a week regularly and those employees never get compensated.
Fine.
But then, later, I find out that members of another team (who are working on the same exact contract), ARE getting compensated for every hour of overtime that they put in, even if it's like 2 hours extra!
How is that even remotely fair? How can anyone even justify that?
If it was on another contract (that maybe paid more money), that might make sense. But both projects are under the same contract, and presumbaly make up equal shares of what we've promised.
Posted by anonymous at November 5, 2005 5:54 PMYes it is like that at most companies, if you are being paid salary, rather than being paid hourly. Salaried employess are expected to work however long it takes to get the job done in order to earn their weekly, monthly, or contracted salary. On the other hand, employees being paid by the hour must be paid time and a half for anything over 40 hours. The down side of that is that if they work fewer than 40 hours, they get paid only for the hours they worked.
Posted by: at November 6, 2005 7:02 AMah, but members of both teams are salaried.. no one is paid hourly or contracted.
Posted by: at November 6, 2005 8:14 AMgo on strike
Posted by: at November 6, 2005 10:50 AMThen they are flat-out ripping you off. Not nice. Once you manage to find another job, badmouth the hell out of them. I'd be pissed, too.
Posted by: at November 7, 2005 8:53 AMyeah, shit on the walls of their bathrooms
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