Adult Children by Stephen Beals for January 23, 2024

My job prefers no overtime and I like that. Overtime is a sign you’ve been there too long that week.

The Police Department I served on was short handed for a year or so. We had mandatory overtime, having to work on a scheduled day off. We worked 10 hour shifts, so it could make for a really long week, especially when we’d get off shift and have to report to the various courts to testify.

I worked a lot of overtime for many years. It really helped my 401k and now I’m retired and reaping the benefits of it!

I was almost always a salaried employee when I worked overtime. No benefits for me, just considered to be part of the job.

over 50 years ago I hired out on the RR , I worked 16 hours a day 7 days a week now the government has stepped in and regulates more reasonable hours

I specifically work the night/closing shift because management won’t be around.

He’s more like a staff infection.

I was hired to teach operators at a nuclear plant. Then the company decided to save money and have us do the work during refueling outages instead of paying contractors. For me that meant the actual disassembly, fuel replacement, and reactor reassembly at my home plant and at another plant, one every 18 months and the other every 24 months. 12 hr days, 6 days a week. Since I was salaried not only did I not get overtime but didn’t get paid anything for the first 8 hours or so after 40. The other guys on the crew were mechanics who were paid hourly and got time and a half and then double time. Even more if it was a holiday. I had no choice in the matter. High temperatures, working in radiation and contamination areas, hard physical labor while working in protective clothing, etc and they justified because our job descriptions said “Other duties as assigned”.

..oh Tabby, for someone so wise, you still have a lot to learn..

Ha! Nothing good ever follows, I’ve got good news.

Good point, Tabby!

His grimace says it all. What ever all is.

Regular or time and a half?

hehehe aww cute Tabby …. it doesn’t work that way babe ….. weeps