Boss Says "No Overtime," Shocked When Worker Complies

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    Font - Posted by u/Local_admin_user 12 hours ago Don't want to pay overtime, but wants overtime. S OC I've spoken to you many times about the rules on this project, so we do not need to go over this again: 1. You must take any overtime worked during the week on the Friday. 2. You cannot do overtime on the Friday. 3. You cannot negotiate this, we've been over it a million times. I am not interested in discussion.
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    Font - So this is how the discussion with my boss began back when I did support. To give context this was a two year plan of migrating remote sites, it wasn't particularly complicated but in order to make things smoother we'd suggested migrating most of their data overnight, this would occur a couple of hours of overtime each week which the company were not happy having to pay - so they insisted we "take time off on the Friday instead". The problem was that two hours could easily jump to 4 or 5
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    Font - One week well into the project the migration at night takes almost 7 hours, I'm in work the follow day (Tuesday) and I'm exhausted having had about 3 hours sleep. I'm refused the day off as "it must be Friday". By Friday I have recovered and I'm looking forward to my 30 minute working day at this point.
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    Font - I roll in, there's been a ransomware incident at the previous weeks site. The I'm told to go there and help handle it. So I do. I spent my 30minutes driving to site, call up my boss "Hi Boss, just clocking off as it's a Friday to take my hours back. Can you send X out here now as it looks like a right mess, see you on Monday." They quickly organised overtime payments for the remaining 23 weeks the project had to run. FYI I did get told off on the Monday for my attitude but there was nothi
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    Font - 11 hr. ago This was all on them and their cheap approach to help their clients. Good for you for making them realize that their policy was not going to work. Reply Share RJack151 Vote Brown SugarBare . 7 hr. ago I'd have a couple of choice words for their opinions on attitude. What attitude? The attitude of following YOUR rules?? Vote Reply Share
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    Font - LongPast DueDate +3. 11 hr. ago What an idiotic policy to begin with. As if problems never happen on a Friday or data can't be migrated over weekends. Reply Share Vote processedmeat +2.11 hr. ago I thought problems only happened Friday at 4p and holidays. Vote Burninator05 Reply Share +3. 11 hr. ago I have a strict rule I follow: No changes on Friday. Unless it's fixing something that's broken, no ... changes happen on Friday. I typically use them to catch up on the paperwork and Vote doc
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    Font - Geminii27 +3 10 hr. ago I did get told off on the Monday for my attitude Considering it was their policy, it was absolutely their attitude. Reply Share Vote WizogBokog 8 hr. ago I would have gotten my a fired or in a fist fight by dropping 'I'm not interested in this discussion' mid sentence. ✩ Vote Reply Share
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    Font - +1. 11 hr. ago I got burned likee that once. Once. Worked over during the week to finish up a project and got told on friday to go home early because they didn't want to pay overtime. Never again. CaiCaiside Vote Reply Share
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    Font - somewhat_pragmatic 10 hr. ago FYI I did get told off on the Monday for my attitude but there was nothing they could do about it. What could they tell you off about. It seems really easy to just cite rule #3: 3 You cannot negotiate this, we've been over it a million times. I am not interested in discussion. That rule says you're not even allowed to offer to stay longer than the 30 min at the site. Vote Reply Share

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