Fuck these people.

[Pianomahnn]

My schedule the last two days:

Thursday: 9am - 11pm.
Friday: 7am - 11:59pm
Saturday: 12am - 3am, home for nap from 3 - 7, back here 7:30am - now, which is around 3:20pm.

I've had 2 people, people hired after me...annoying people...tell me I need to go home.

THANKS FOR THE FUCKING WORDS OF ADVICE YOU COCKGOBBLING ASSCLOWNS!!!

There's a reason I'm not at home right now. I have some bad shit going down, and we have client testers coming next week to test our system. I can't go home.

Fuck people and their fucking fuck fuck shit. Motherfuckers.

I flat out said to the 2nd one, "Fuck you, I know I need to go home. But I can't." "Why?" he replies. "Because I have a job to do.", I counter.

Not happy with this shit.

[Cruise Director]

That's why they call it "at will" employment. You can quit anytime you want.

[Pianomahnn]

But I dont want to.

I want the fuckers who say "you need to go home" to quit.

[Pianomahnn]

This wasn't a rant on working long hours. Or working hard, for that matter.

It was a rant on assclowns.

[Cruise Director]

I flat out said to the 2nd one, "Fuck you, I know I need to go home. But I can't." "Why?" he replies. "Because I have a job to do.", I counter.



This type of response is a result of your condition, which the co-worker saw, that inspired him/her to tell you you needed to go home.

[MuffyTheVampyreLayer]

Cruise is so wise. Wish he was my manager instead of the cockgobbling assclown I have. Fuck em.

[Mudflap]

Gub'mint job.

Work 40. Go home.

[Cruise Director]

After a certain amount of time on the job, people become ineffective. Everybody has a different threshold but we all have that wall. Once you work an employee beyond their wall, you are inviting trouble. Productivity becomes a sliver of what it was. Reflexes and thought processes slow which can produce safety accidents and worker's comp injuries. Tired, fatigued employees driving home can kill people.

It is in a company's best interest to take care of their people and not work them over their threshold.

[Pianomahnn]

We're mericans!!! Its against our consitution to not work until we're crazy.

[Cruise Director]

The funny thing about overtime is that you are paying time and a half for less productivity.

[Pianomahnn]

What's overtime?

[Cruise Director]

It's something that inside the State of Utah, you earn for working over 40 hours unless you are salary exempt, which requires that at least 50% of your time be spent supervising at least 3 other people.

[Koliedrus]

What's overtime?

The moments of your life that companies purchase from you for various currencies. On average, overtime for workers paid by the hour is:

(Time worked) x (wage) x 1.5

On the deathbed, Overtime counts for shit.
Climbing rocks, jumping from planes and running on the beach matter.

Overtime means "Less Time".

The compensation is never enough.

[MuffyTheVampyreLayer]

I tend to be at my most productive when doing overtime - probably because it is outside normal work hours. During normal work hours my phone is constantly ringing and people are pestering me with one thing or another which means I barely get time to do my *actual* job. I've learned from this that it pays not to be helpful, you don't get any more money for being helpful but you get a hell of a lot more people expecting shit from you.

[Pianomahnn]

Seriously...that "What's overtime?" comment was hella sarcasm.

And I'd like to make note that perhaps some people have misinterpreted my original posting. The work I was performing was not suffering. I was handling all tasks with grace and getting my work done. I was pissed off at the fact people felt the need to tell me to go home. It was merely because they had known how long I was there for.

I would also like to point out that my management did inquire as to my mental and physical health through all of this. They wanted to make sure I wasn't going crazy. I assured them, through words and performance, that all was fine.

I love overtime. Just don't get paid for it. :-D

[Cruise Director]

How do they get out of paying you overtime? Salary? Commission?

[Pianomahnn]

Salary indeed, my friend.

[Koliedrus]

Your kids will hate it.

Well, unless you consider money as an alternative to time.

Ring Ring

"Talk to me."

"Daddy? Can we play catch when you come home?"

"I'll have to work late again. I'll advance your allowance online to make up for it. Check your account."

"Cool! I love you, dad!"

"Yeah, you too, Sandy."

"Dad, this is Stevie."

"You sound like your sister. I gotta go. Love ya."


CLICK

or not.

[ms. bing]

i totally agree with kol.
while people in my area work overtime, i'm the one watching their kids grow up. there's a little girl in my class who has been tough as nails for as long as i've known her until yesterday. yesterday she broke down at naptime and sobbed for me. she didn't want me to leave her side. i held her hand until she fell asleep, which took about 3.5 seconds.

yesterday i talked to her mom when she came to get her. her reply was that she had been working so much lately, because it was her first year teaching. every night there was a meeting to attend, lesson plans to write and papers to grade. she had spent so little time with her daughter, but she would work on it and try to make it better.

today was no better. the little girl sobbed at naptime and wanted me by her. i asked her why she was crying and she told me she wanted her mommy. i asked her if she slept good the night before, and she told me she had waited up past her bedtime with daddy waiting for mommy to get home. once again, it took about 3.5 seconds for the child to fall asleep, but she wanted me by her side until she did. i'm guessing that mommy used to do that for her at home, and now she doesn't. all of a sudden like.

you never get that back. you never get back watching your kids grow up, and you don't want them to turn into the kind of kids for whom that's ok.
p-mahnn doesn't have any kids. this is the perfect time for him to do this. work it out and get it over with. eventually you'll get to stop doing it. it'll be the next fuckers turn to work the overtime.

[MuffyTheVampyreLayer]

I'm on a salary but we also get approved overtime in acknowledgement of the fact that sometimes our workloads are damned impossible to deal with. One cool thing about my job is that I get glide time, so I go in early, knock off when Tarryn gets off school, and can have my overtime done before he's out of his pj's on Saturday morning. Then I have lots of extra money to take him to the movies etc...its the best of both worlds in that respect. It does mean bloody early starts though. See... you can have your cake and eat it too!