Overtime

One of the benefits of working at the Shitshow is that they actually pay overtime. However there are strings attached to getting paid overtime.

First of all you need your flunktional manager to approve overtime for a certain period. If your manager is King Kong, good luck with that…he can’t even approve a credit card charge. Secondly, overtime has to fall within certain rules such as it has to be at least 2 hours a day and be at least twice a week. Basically they don’t want people charging if they need to stay late once a week to meet some deadline no matter how important it is.

So this is how I throw overtime charging rocks.

1) During a busy time, ask for approval but get put the end date as far into the future as the automated process allows
2) Tell my program management I can’t work overtime until my flunktional manager approves it. This results in the flunktional managers getting nasty gram emails from the program managers until it gets approved
3) When possible, rearrange my task such that I’m charging overtime for overhead activities (like mandatory training). This sits off an entire chain of nasty grams and requires responses from multiple people.
4) When I’m in a position of loosing my sick time (it gets cut in half every year at the Shitshow) or vacation time, charge 8 hours for sick/vacation time then overtime for any real work I do that day. In fact Nunn once charge 8 hours of vacation time followed by 8 hours of overtime on the same day and King Kong blindly signed the time card

Because I have to jump through hoops to get paid for the work I actually do, I throw rocks and charge it as overtime.