I went to sign up for my mandatory overtime that I have to do every week, and notice a little note placed on the very first page....I will leave out the fact that the spelling and grammar was, of course, wrong and looked as if it'd been typed up in 10 seconds by an 8 year old.......or er, I won't leave it out, I'll just regurgitate what it really meant:
"Please be sure you are putting in some overtime on the weekends, as the weekends are when we need the most extra resources. If there are not enough volunteers for weekend overtime, we WILL consider making mandatory overtime weekends only!"
Oooh, nice threat there. Uh let's see....we're on mandatory overtime because the idiot monkeys in their expensive suits refuse to hire anyone.....people are already putting in anywhere from an extra 4 to 12 to even 16 hours a week (some people do extra, others just do what's required) and now we're being threatened that if we don't start sacrificing our weekends that are our ONLY time off of work, they'll make it mandatory to do it on the weekend?
Oh, we've been there before, and I wouldn't be surprised if it happened again.
Know what? When overtime is mandatory, it shouldn't matter WHEN the hours are worked, if there are open spots in the book to sign up for, people are going to fill the spots. How about instead of threatening those of us who DO our overtime and still enjoy our *MUCH NEEDED* time off, why not go after people who keep sneaking away with not doing any overtime, and make them work weekends? Or how about just be fucking happy that overtime is being done, period?!
I love idle threats. It's the same as a couple of years ago when we were threatened with "If more people don't start volunteering to work overtime, we WILL make it mandatory!"
Yes, we are such bad bad people who don't want to help out because we don't want to work on the weekend.
"Please be sure you are putting in some overtime on the weekends, as the weekends are when we need the most extra resources. If there are not enough volunteers for weekend overtime, we WILL consider making mandatory overtime weekends only!"
Oooh, nice threat there. Uh let's see....we're on mandatory overtime because the idiot monkeys in their expensive suits refuse to hire anyone.....people are already putting in anywhere from an extra 4 to 12 to even 16 hours a week (some people do extra, others just do what's required) and now we're being threatened that if we don't start sacrificing our weekends that are our ONLY time off of work, they'll make it mandatory to do it on the weekend?
Oh, we've been there before, and I wouldn't be surprised if it happened again.
Know what? When overtime is mandatory, it shouldn't matter WHEN the hours are worked, if there are open spots in the book to sign up for, people are going to fill the spots. How about instead of threatening those of us who DO our overtime and still enjoy our *MUCH NEEDED* time off, why not go after people who keep sneaking away with not doing any overtime, and make them work weekends? Or how about just be fucking happy that overtime is being done, period?!
I love idle threats. It's the same as a couple of years ago when we were threatened with "If more people don't start volunteering to work overtime, we WILL make it mandatory!"
Yes, we are such bad bad people who don't want to help out because we don't want to work on the weekend.
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