As mentioned in the previous post titled "Mandatory Overtime", the Shitshow would abuse the paid overtime policy by implementing mandatory overtime on a regular basis. Most engineers just complied. However, some of us have a life and don't need the extra $80 per week for another 10hrs of my life. We actually tried getting out of mandatory overtime by getting our assignments finished on time.
The problem was that it didn't matter if you finished on or ahead of schedule; everybody was expected to work overtime. The logic being that if you finished your assignment early, you could pick up someone else's slack by taking on their assignment. That's quite an incentive to be smart and efficient, isn't it? Not really, but on a short term basis it's not an unreasonable thing to ask from your engineers either.
The problem was that, over a several year period, they would implement mandatory overtime every other month, sometimes more! It got to be the norm. After a while, some of us refused to do it since it was becoming evident that the mandatory overtime policy was being driven by politics rather than policy. Uh-oh: troublemakers. You can bet that such disregard for mandatory overtime policy came up on a few performance reviews.
On the other hand, many people did work overtime – and they put in ALOT of hours over the years. They were glad to do so, even when they had nothing to do, because it gave them a bigger paycheck every week. And the dollars added up. They added up so much that the company finally declared that people were abusing the abusive policy.
So what did the company do? They got rid of the paid overtime policy. Thanks management! Way to screw up a policy that was once a benefit of working here. Oh and by the way… Any chance that those of us that refused to work the unnecessary overtime will get an apology on our performance review this year?
Because the Shitshow can abuse a good overtime policy to the point of its extinction, I throw rocks.
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