Overtime Compensation
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I don't get compensated for any kind of overtime. But then again, I enjoy what I do and that is my only motivation to overtime. I don't care about time as a whole as long as I enjoy it and enjoyment is my reward. In general, I think highly motivated teams think beyond the issue of straight time and overtime. They enjoy what they do. But I do think, companies should give few things like a gift certificate to a restaurant or a store. Nothing too fancy and nothing too little. (This is of course in addition to the raises/bonuses).
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A few years ago, I interviewed with a place where the interviewer said "We expect our employees to put in at least 50 hours per week". I responded that I was not some butt-munching ass-kissing plebe fresh out of college willing to take just any job that came along, and he was sorely mistaken if he thought a 50-year-old programmer with almost 30 years of experience in the business was going to agree to working conditions like that. While he was sitting there sputtering and turning a little pale (because I had stood up to continue my rant, and maybe because I was yelling), I left and took a higher paying job elsewhere. Two days later, these bozos called me for a 2nd interview. Amazing...
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
But then again, I enjoy what I do and that is my only motivation to overtime. I don't care about time as a whole as long as I enjoy it and enjoyment is my reward.
Well, the fact that you enjoy the work and willfully work overtime doesn't change the fact that the company benefits from your work, and I'd expect the company to compensate you appropriately. I've come to realize that people take the enthusiasm and passion for granted :(
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S. Senthil Kumar wrote:
I've come to realize that people take the enthusiasm and passion for granted
Yes! But it does not mean that you should stop from doing what you enjoy. Also if you do what you enjoy then it means that you can find other jobs easily as you become good at it. So now you can work on your terms and not on the company's terms and company has to compensate you fairly.
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Eh... The mistake would be that he didn't really have to be "hard" on Gary at all: putting Gary in a hypothetical scenario and making assumptions as to his work ethic and attitude based on his response to a specific question wasn't at all necessary, if Snowman58's intention was to, say, emphasize the value of teamwork. This sort of response - "If i was your boss..." - is strangely frequent on CP, and i've never quite figured out why. Maybe because i've never been someone else's boss, it's hard for me to appreciate the temptation to look at everyone as a potential underling such work inspires... :-\
Yes he is rude to Gary that is what I stated and so his point did not come across. In other words he tried to be John Simmons (in some ways) but he failed miserably at that. If I remove that rudeness from his post I find that he makes sense.
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PM? ;P
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What if someone wants to work a couple of hours late because he needs to either come in late (or leave early) in a day or two ? (overtime is not always due to bad management)
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As others have said - this is not overtime. I have no problem with people rearranging time; I don't have a problem with somebody saying they want to work 42 hours this week because they want a couple of hours off the following week - again, that's not overtime. Overtime is having to work longer hours to meet an artificial deadline; if I don't pay you to work those hours, why should you work them? My philosophy is based entirely on having hated to do overtime when I worked for others.
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I take inestimable pleasure in the knowledge that my employer has yet again convinced me to do something stupid. I resist putting in 'overtime'. I am salaried, and am not entitled to any compensation for it. The local tendency is to abuse people who accept overtime assignments. I have found that there isn't a 'down' side to refusing overtime assignments, either. Given that I tend to complete assignments within my stated schedule, there's no cause for criticising me when I decline.
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delete this;Added: Well this certainly got the juices flowing! First let me apologize to Gary. My attempt at being succinct gave the impression I was being critical of him personally. That is not the case and I hope Gary will accept my apology for giving that impression. My response was an attempt to demonstrate the potential downsides that could occur if the OP followed Gary’s advice. Let me give an expanded answer – the message is the same, but perhaps the explanations will make it less disagreeable. Let’s put this discussion into context: 1) This thread started with an apparently new employee who asked a question regarding mandatory OT. 2) Gary’s response was that he declined to work OT and had not suffered any ‘downside’ to refusing to work OT. (Gary later modified that answer to say he did work OT when it was justified.) 3) My response was intended to be the rhetorical “He”, “you”, not Gary as an individual. Again I probably should have been clearer. 4) The reason for the OT is irrelevant to the OP’s question. There are a myriad of reasons both good and bad for the company finding itself in this position. They don’t matter to the OP’s question, although I agree with those that say if it is an ongoing issue, then the employee needs to reconsider his future. 5) Even in today’s hire and fire environment, there is a loyalty to the employees. It’s in the best interests of the company to have the “best” employees. May not be the traditional definition of loyalty, but it exists none the less. And as strange as it sounds, weeding out “bad” employees is a benefit to the “good” ones. Failure to weed out “bad” employees due to a personal loyalty can cause collapse and loss of jobs for everyone. I have been the manager of people that have made comments similar to Gary’s posting in real life situations. I have given them variation of the same advice, but behind closed doors – not in public (and certainly not in a forum) for the very reason shown here – public discussions of this nature are subject to miss interpretation and lack the ability for explanations. For example if an employee made statements in public that he was not working any OT, I would have a serious problem with that employee for the reasons I stated. However if the employee came to me privately and explained he had family commitments that prevented OT on a specific schedule but was willing to do what he could otherwise, I would fully support that position. Just as I would give a salaried employee time off in the middle of the day to g
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Added: Well this certainly got the juices flowing! First let me apologize to Gary. My attempt at being succinct gave the impression I was being critical of him personally. That is not the case and I hope Gary will accept my apology for giving that impression. My response was an attempt to demonstrate the potential downsides that could occur if the OP followed Gary’s advice. Let me give an expanded answer – the message is the same, but perhaps the explanations will make it less disagreeable. Let’s put this discussion into context: 1) This thread started with an apparently new employee who asked a question regarding mandatory OT. 2) Gary’s response was that he declined to work OT and had not suffered any ‘downside’ to refusing to work OT. (Gary later modified that answer to say he did work OT when it was justified.) 3) My response was intended to be the rhetorical “He”, “you”, not Gary as an individual. Again I probably should have been clearer. 4) The reason for the OT is irrelevant to the OP’s question. There are a myriad of reasons both good and bad for the company finding itself in this position. They don’t matter to the OP’s question, although I agree with those that say if it is an ongoing issue, then the employee needs to reconsider his future. 5) Even in today’s hire and fire environment, there is a loyalty to the employees. It’s in the best interests of the company to have the “best” employees. May not be the traditional definition of loyalty, but it exists none the less. And as strange as it sounds, weeding out “bad” employees is a benefit to the “good” ones. Failure to weed out “bad” employees due to a personal loyalty can cause collapse and loss of jobs for everyone. I have been the manager of people that have made comments similar to Gary’s posting in real life situations. I have given them variation of the same advice, but behind closed doors – not in public (and certainly not in a forum) for the very reason shown here – public discussions of this nature are subject to miss interpretation and lack the ability for explanations. For example if an employee made statements in public that he was not working any OT, I would have a serious problem with that employee for the reasons I stated. However if the employee came to me privately and explained he had family commitments that prevented OT on a specific schedule but was willing to do what he could otherwise, I would fully support that position. Just as I would give a salaried employee time off in the middle of the day to g
Thanks. The 'vigor' of my response was due to some bad experiences with salaried overtime when I was younger.
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How does everyone typically get compensated for overtime? Pay, time off, a thanks, more overtime...?
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Added: Well this certainly got the juices flowing! First let me apologize to Gary. My attempt at being succinct gave the impression I was being critical of him personally. That is not the case and I hope Gary will accept my apology for giving that impression. My response was an attempt to demonstrate the potential downsides that could occur if the OP followed Gary’s advice. Let me give an expanded answer – the message is the same, but perhaps the explanations will make it less disagreeable. Let’s put this discussion into context: 1) This thread started with an apparently new employee who asked a question regarding mandatory OT. 2) Gary’s response was that he declined to work OT and had not suffered any ‘downside’ to refusing to work OT. (Gary later modified that answer to say he did work OT when it was justified.) 3) My response was intended to be the rhetorical “He”, “you”, not Gary as an individual. Again I probably should have been clearer. 4) The reason for the OT is irrelevant to the OP’s question. There are a myriad of reasons both good and bad for the company finding itself in this position. They don’t matter to the OP’s question, although I agree with those that say if it is an ongoing issue, then the employee needs to reconsider his future. 5) Even in today’s hire and fire environment, there is a loyalty to the employees. It’s in the best interests of the company to have the “best” employees. May not be the traditional definition of loyalty, but it exists none the less. And as strange as it sounds, weeding out “bad” employees is a benefit to the “good” ones. Failure to weed out “bad” employees due to a personal loyalty can cause collapse and loss of jobs for everyone. I have been the manager of people that have made comments similar to Gary’s posting in real life situations. I have given them variation of the same advice, but behind closed doors – not in public (and certainly not in a forum) for the very reason shown here – public discussions of this nature are subject to miss interpretation and lack the ability for explanations. For example if an employee made statements in public that he was not working any OT, I would have a serious problem with that employee for the reasons I stated. However if the employee came to me privately and explained he had family commitments that prevented OT on a specific schedule but was willing to do what he could otherwise, I would fully support that position. Just as I would give a salaried employee time off in the middle of the day to g
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You know what? I've been working for the same company for 19 years. I have survived more economic turns of the wheel than I can count.
Snowman58 wrote:
You are obviously not a team player
Wrong. In my department, I have the unofficial position of Departmental Sh!t-Job Boy. As the DSJB, I administer our department server, our source control system, our automated build process, and a host of other activities that keep our development group operating efficiently. Most of this is voluntary, and I consistently receive appreciative remarks on my appraisals for stepping up and doing all the crap nobody else wants to. In case you're wondering, this is on top of my regular responsibilities as one of the three senior developers in a group of 12.
Snowman58 wrote:
You are undermining the moral of the rest of the team by holding yourself above the "pain" of getting the task done on schedule
Not hardly. It's fairly rare that we, as a group, have to put in overtime. I've done it occasionally, when others have done so, even when I was only tangentially involved in the crisis at hand. The biggest reason we have to put in overtime is that we are overcommitted by engineering management. Our group of 12 supports 5 products, some of which have 2 or 3 active branches, along with any number of special projects. Our running joke is that we always have to figure out which of our half-dozen number-one top priorities we are supposed to be working on.
Snowman58 wrote:
You are demonstrating that you are not interested in the success of the company
Bullshit. My contribution to the success of the company is doing the best job I know how to do, in the most efficient manner possible. Overtime burns people out and increases the error rate. It's a losing proposition.
Snowman58 wrote:
Every aggressive company has crunch times when it expects its salaried employees to put in additional effort
Some companies make it a policy for it to always be crunch time. I've worked for a couple of those in the past. A company will take advantage of people who don't say no to overtime.
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Fold WithGary R. Wheeler wrote:
A company will take advantage of people who don't say no to overtime.
Amen to that. I worked for a small-market radio station (10 - 15 total employees). I also lived half a block away from the studio. I worked a lot of extra shifts for pretty much zero compensation (normal wages, no time and a half). Of course, if I needed to take some time off from being sick, or even for a vacation, the usual comeback was they couldn't find someone to fill in for me. Worst night was being on the air for 11 hours because the person working the shift after mine quit two hours before her shift started. I had started at 3 pm and was supposed to be on the air for 7 hours. I went home at 2 am and only because the news director volunteered to come in early. Had he not done that, I would have been on the air for 14 hours. My voice was pretty much shot by the time I got off the air. Other fun shifts included several times where I finished a 7 hour shift, go home and sleep for less than 5 hours and then back on the air for another five hour shift. *ack!* Where I'm at now, there is technically no overtime. If I work more than 40 hours in a week, I have to take compensation time off within the same pay period so that my weekly hours equal 40 hours. Works for me since I can generally get a Friday afternoon off to run errands and such. :-\ Flynn
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Added: Well this certainly got the juices flowing! First let me apologize to Gary. My attempt at being succinct gave the impression I was being critical of him personally. That is not the case and I hope Gary will accept my apology for giving that impression. My response was an attempt to demonstrate the potential downsides that could occur if the OP followed Gary’s advice. Let me give an expanded answer – the message is the same, but perhaps the explanations will make it less disagreeable. Let’s put this discussion into context: 1) This thread started with an apparently new employee who asked a question regarding mandatory OT. 2) Gary’s response was that he declined to work OT and had not suffered any ‘downside’ to refusing to work OT. (Gary later modified that answer to say he did work OT when it was justified.) 3) My response was intended to be the rhetorical “He”, “you”, not Gary as an individual. Again I probably should have been clearer. 4) The reason for the OT is irrelevant to the OP’s question. There are a myriad of reasons both good and bad for the company finding itself in this position. They don’t matter to the OP’s question, although I agree with those that say if it is an ongoing issue, then the employee needs to reconsider his future. 5) Even in today’s hire and fire environment, there is a loyalty to the employees. It’s in the best interests of the company to have the “best” employees. May not be the traditional definition of loyalty, but it exists none the less. And as strange as it sounds, weeding out “bad” employees is a benefit to the “good” ones. Failure to weed out “bad” employees due to a personal loyalty can cause collapse and loss of jobs for everyone. I have been the manager of people that have made comments similar to Gary’s posting in real life situations. I have given them variation of the same advice, but behind closed doors – not in public (and certainly not in a forum) for the very reason shown here – public discussions of this nature are subject to miss interpretation and lack the ability for explanations. For example if an employee made statements in public that he was not working any OT, I would have a serious problem with that employee for the reasons I stated. However if the employee came to me privately and explained he had family commitments that prevented OT on a specific schedule but was willing to do what he could otherwise, I would fully support that position. Just as I would give a salaried employee time off in the middle of the day to g
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dighn wrote:
therefore the company owes no loyalty to you
Loyalty from a company? Arf! I think even in Japan these things are gone.
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