I always imagined it was "Cut that Jive".
Cajungal
Staff member
Don't care. Give notice. Unless you're sick, dying, on fire, or dealing with a horrible personal problem, you're a punk. Sorry, but this guy was a complete child who didn't listen when the hiring committee told him "you will work weekends at this school, and it's not unusual to leave later than five."
GasBandit
Staff member
It is rather astonishing how many people don't realize that the 40 hour work week is largely a myth - if you're part time, you're part time... but if you're full time, you often work late/extra days.
edit: nevermind Pat had a link and im to tired to notice this shit.
Thank God for Unions.
GasBandit
Staff member
Yeah, things might get accomplished otherwise.
That doesn't surprise me, actually.
Not sure if serious or sarcastic...
I'm not unioned.
In my line of work, it's common to work 60-80 hours a week.
I refuse to do it. Once, when we missed a deadline by a day, a director not in my chain of command gave me hell about it, and said I should have had everyone work extra to make the time.
I told him "It will never happen. The emergency deadline was completely arbitrary and made up, and we lost nothing by taking that extra day. The minute I allow my department to work unpaid overtime for arbitrary deadlines, it will never stop. The industries, like gaming, that have that work ethic also have employee turnover like McDonalds, and there's no reason for us to be replacing good people every 6 months because you feel like burning them out."
It's worth noting that the "emergency" was completely fabricated. The only reason it was "due" that day was because this yahoo was trying to exert some authority and set an unreasonable deadline, when there was no business need for it being completed that day. Once the code was in production (one day late), it didn't get any use for at least a week.
Homie don't play that
In my line of work, it's common to work 60-80 hours a week.
I refuse to do it. Once, when we missed a deadline by a day, a director not in my chain of command gave me hell about it, and said I should have had everyone work extra to make the time.
I told him "It will never happen. The emergency deadline was completely arbitrary and made up, and we lost nothing by taking that extra day. The minute I allow my department to work unpaid overtime for arbitrary deadlines, it will never stop. The industries, like gaming, that have that work ethic also have employee turnover like McDonalds, and there's no reason for us to be replacing good people every 6 months because you feel like burning them out."
It's worth noting that the "emergency" was completely fabricated. The only reason it was "due" that day was because this yahoo was trying to exert some authority and set an unreasonable deadline, when there was no business need for it being completed that day. Once the code was in production (one day late), it didn't get any use for at least a week.
Homie don't play that
Little column A, little column B...
Since we have Unions where I work, I get a 40 hour week and hour lunches.
fade
Staff member
There are just too many other things to do. Kids, karate, webcomic, books I'm writing, electronics projects, programming projects. Plenty of people at my company do it voluntarily but not me. They paid me for 40 hours, that's what they get.
My schedule changes every week. Every week. My off days vary. My hours on any given workday could be 7-4, 8-5, 9-6, 10-7, 11-8, 12-9, 1-10, or 2-11, with an extremely high probability that no two consecutive days will have the same hours. On top of that, my commute is just under an hour each way. When I transferred there, they tried to give me a bit of grief about the fact that I wanted every Tue off work.
I pointed out the preceding.
I get every Tue off.
--Patrick
I pointed out the preceding.
I get every Tue off.
--Patrick
What person hired as a teacher would not realize this to begin with?!?
Then again, we had one teacher's assistant who stopped coming in about a week after she started working at the school. She had gotten the flu and called out a couple of days, then she didn't show up. She wasn't answering her calls or emails from the school either. The director thought maybe her health had taken a bad turn since there was no sign that she didn't like the job or wanted to quit. They finally did get in touch with her. But who does that?! The only thing good that came out of it is that I got called to sub for her until they found someone permanent.
We've run the gamut here of people just not showing up for their shift, refusing to come in for a shift (after they should have been here an hour ago), to going outside an hour into their first day and never coming back.
I look on the bright side and say the OT earned from their drama buys me stuff. While they're earning a big fat zero.
I look on the bright side and say the OT earned from their drama buys me stuff. While they're earning a big fat zero.
I want to say we had our own millenial problem at my company, but this woman was older than me, in her mid-thirties, and her huge problem with us working overtime during busy months was largely compounded with her political views. She didn't like there being managers and a boss who got paid more than staffers or made decisions over us ... I'm not sure where anyone getting a job in America would think they were getting into a different situation.
I work 48 hour weeks (4-12s) from 7-7 rotating from days to weekends to nights
Wait, wait, wait, are you implying that shitty, lazy workers can be something other than young people?
What a millenial way of looking at things.
My daughter has a friend coming over and I want her to make her bed. I want her room clean. These are reasonable
Requests. If she doesn't STFU with the back talk here in a minute I'm going to lose my shit! Gloriously and loudly.
Requests. If she doesn't STFU with the back talk here in a minute I'm going to lose my shit! Gloriously and loudly.
True, but I got used to the lazy wannabe socialists being a college co-worker thing. She really wanted a government job and felt we should be run by the government directly instead of via contract, couldn't wrap her head around the boss's desire to make money. I honestly thought I'd seen the last of her like when I graduated.
I did down at the Former Place Of Work In The Civilized Part Of Wisconsin. These? HA!
Oh, by the way - shorts are verboten as part of the dress code.
Oh trust me I know. We had great pants and long sleeve shirts. Well.. You could get them cut to be short sleeves but sometimes you would have piss and shit thrown at you so.... I went with long sleeves
Senior Management, I work all the time and none of time.
I'll add a little more detail. I am a public face for a very large organization. I speak to news agencies, reporters, I write copy, handle crises and am generally involved in the public perception of the company I work for. I am expected to be available 24/7, and even on vacation, able to take calls and make decisions that could impact millions of dollars. For this I am compensated fairly.
Daily operations I try to remain out of as much as possible. However, I am responsible for two separate departments, both marketing and development, so I'm often down in the dirt on those either directing copywriting or writing it myself, or guiding business analysts on doing good requirements documentation.
Overall though, my day is mostly spent researching and strategizing - which often comes across as doing nothing.
I'll add a little more detail. I am a public face for a very large organization. I speak to news agencies, reporters, I write copy, handle crises and am generally involved in the public perception of the company I work for. I am expected to be available 24/7, and even on vacation, able to take calls and make decisions that could impact millions of dollars. For this I am compensated fairly.
Daily operations I try to remain out of as much as possible. However, I am responsible for two separate departments, both marketing and development, so I'm often down in the dirt on those either directing copywriting or writing it myself, or guiding business analysts on doing good requirements documentation.
Overall though, my day is mostly spent researching and strategizing - which often comes across as doing nothing.
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The discussion was about hours of work.
It was sunny outside this weekend! I didn't touch a computer until this morning!
How the hell does a 30 or older male throw a fit because he didn't get to sit in the front seat of a car?
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Did he call shotgun? And was the call in accordance with the shotgun rules?