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Overtime grief..

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BELIAL
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Re: Overtime grief..

Post by BELIAL »

I never forget to book it ,guess why? ps I'm not forgetful :left: :left:
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bandit650
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Re: Overtime grief..

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You would never believe what one of these managers come out with today on the subject of overtime,we should be gratefull for the fact we have a job and so we should give RM any of the time we work over our duty hours for free,i think you could guess what the answer back was :Very Happy
BELIAL
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Re: Overtime grief..

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bandit650 wrote:You would never believe what one of these managers come out with today on the subject of overtime,we should be gratefull for the fact we have a job and so we should give RM any of the time we work over our duty hours for free,i think you could guess what the answer back was :Very Happy
Was it , "We are Philipino orphans scouring garbage dumps for scraps of food,or, we are Peruvian coal miners waist deep in s**t and mud for 18hrs a day and so happy to earn a crust,bring on the modernization ,we need to get like these folks,troopers the lot of them.
Maybe not :hmmmm
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Thorby Bislam
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Re: Overtime grief..

Post by Thorby Bislam »

We are told that we can only book OT if we inform a manager before we go out. Of course, you dont always know what time you'll finish. Most of the time we can make an educated guess.
Then it's "well Thorby, none of your colleagues are claiming OT, so why are you ?" The correct answer is that most of them have been harrassed into accepting the situation, but that doesn't go down too well.
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NWpostie
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Re: Overtime grief..

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Thorby Bislam wrote:We are told that we can only book OT if we inform a manager before we go out. Of course, you dont always know what time you'll finish. Most of the time we can make an educated guess.
Then it's "well Thorby, none of your colleagues are claiming OT, so why are you ?" The correct answer is that most of them have been harrassed into accepting the situation, but that doesn't go down too well.

I had this, , if you are confident enough that you are going over, you can challenge the Lino to come out with you, chances are they will back down, if it means proving them wrong, in fact if its a heavy duty every day, you can ask them to come out with you EVERY DAY, if everybody in the alleyway does this, it would be like chinese water torture, drip drip drip drip drip
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london sub
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Re: Overtime grief..

Post by london sub »

Overtime dockets have been removed from our office, and it wouldn't surprise me if its happening all over. This tactic of removing dockets and hiding it away is only going to cause problems. It's bullying in my books that a dom can't accept you booking o/t and is telling you to do more than your fair share of the workload.

As a result of not booking o/t the dom has in our office been doing our work...that includes sorting frames in the morning. The dom this morning was helping me box in my frame, and said "the mail today is not to bad" :left: ...well if it isn't to bad why are you standing next to me then? :whistle

Walks are now longer due to this pegasus review in our office...they say it will take you 3.5hrs, we say it will take 4hrs...they won't listen though. The only solution to this on going problem is work to your time.
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Re: Overtime grief..

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cow post wrote:Overtime dockets have been removed from our office, and it wouldn't surprise me if its happening all over. This tactic of removing dockets and hiding it away is only going to cause problems. It's bullying in my books that a dom can't accept you booking o/t and is telling you to do more than your fair share of the workload.

As a result of not booking o/t the dom has in our office been doing our work...that includes sorting frames in the morning. The dom this morning was helping me box in my frame, and said "the mail today is not to bad" :left: ...well if it isn't to bad why are you standing next to me then? :whistle

Walks are now longer due to this pegasus review in our office...they say it will take you 3.5hrs, we say it will take 4hrs...they won't listen though. The only solution to this on going problem is work to your time.
All the above is happening in my office only our walks are 4.5hrs