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Not a break at work, a break from overtime in general.
I wanted to post this in Morons In Management as CS, but I get the general feeling that most people are sick of my whining about overtime and are just holding back from giving me the "You should be happy you have a job and are getting extra money!" spiel.
Well, this is a more appropriate place to let those feelings out, then. And I will just rant here, then.
We have been on required overtime since early last summer. It NEVER seems to end. I had a short break while I was training, my first couple of weeks after I transferred I didn't have to do any, and we got really lucky the last week in January and the week after Valentine's Day it was dropped to a voluntary basis for one week.
People at work have been working 46-60 hour work weeks since last summer (although the higher number generally relates to those who opt to do as much as possible, the most that is usually required is 6-12 hours). As you can imagine, we are worn out, we are tired, we are sick and tired of losing sleep from having to cram errands and other things we need to do and still put in our extra hours at the same time, or we've been sacrificing days off because we have been FORCED to work weekends. I've gotten lucky and only missed a few days off, but not so lucky people have had to work every other weekend since it became mandatory.
Mandatory, as in, you will be in TROUBLE if you don't do it. All of it. If you don't show up, it's the same as not showing up to work or being late. If you do it enough, you can be fired. It's totally legal and they only have to give you 24 hours notice if they want to change it. One week, we WERE on voluntary until the manager decided on THURSDAY to make it a mandatory weekend.
We have been begging our manager, while our department is rather slow right now, if we could have a random voluntary week, just a small break here or there.
No, absolutely not. We have to stay focused on our work and we need to be prepared for when the bottlenecks in the other departments start sliding our way. We need to keep doing mass overtime, even though we are too slow to have enough work for everyone at a given time, because we have to be READY for when the work does come rushing in.
Because, you know, we've NEVER been busy before at work :eyeroll:. We have NEVER been behind, never been late in shipping product out....uh huh. Yup. No one knows what it's like, and if we go one week without having to put in extra hours, we will come back the next week slacking and not focused or ready.
God fucking forbid we be treated like human beings with needs and families and friends. I am SO TIRED of having to PLAN my errands so that I can still get 6-8 hours of sleep BEFORE working 10-12 hour shifts ALL week. Most weeks, I only get ONE DAY where I don't have to put in any extra.....it's SO HARD to do errands or make appointments (without having to explain how hard it is already working night shift) and THEN get to bed early or be able to stay up if you stay late. I have only worked a few weekends and it still pisses me off that I lost time with my boyfriend and my friends because I had to work.
Ok, there's my rant. Fire away. Besides, you get taxed to shame after so many hours of OT anyway. When they up it to max amount, we don't even get to see all of it.
I wanted to post this in Morons In Management as CS, but I get the general feeling that most people are sick of my whining about overtime and are just holding back from giving me the "You should be happy you have a job and are getting extra money!" spiel.
Well, this is a more appropriate place to let those feelings out, then. And I will just rant here, then.
We have been on required overtime since early last summer. It NEVER seems to end. I had a short break while I was training, my first couple of weeks after I transferred I didn't have to do any, and we got really lucky the last week in January and the week after Valentine's Day it was dropped to a voluntary basis for one week.
People at work have been working 46-60 hour work weeks since last summer (although the higher number generally relates to those who opt to do as much as possible, the most that is usually required is 6-12 hours). As you can imagine, we are worn out, we are tired, we are sick and tired of losing sleep from having to cram errands and other things we need to do and still put in our extra hours at the same time, or we've been sacrificing days off because we have been FORCED to work weekends. I've gotten lucky and only missed a few days off, but not so lucky people have had to work every other weekend since it became mandatory.
Mandatory, as in, you will be in TROUBLE if you don't do it. All of it. If you don't show up, it's the same as not showing up to work or being late. If you do it enough, you can be fired. It's totally legal and they only have to give you 24 hours notice if they want to change it. One week, we WERE on voluntary until the manager decided on THURSDAY to make it a mandatory weekend.
We have been begging our manager, while our department is rather slow right now, if we could have a random voluntary week, just a small break here or there.
No, absolutely not. We have to stay focused on our work and we need to be prepared for when the bottlenecks in the other departments start sliding our way. We need to keep doing mass overtime, even though we are too slow to have enough work for everyone at a given time, because we have to be READY for when the work does come rushing in.
Because, you know, we've NEVER been busy before at work :eyeroll:. We have NEVER been behind, never been late in shipping product out....uh huh. Yup. No one knows what it's like, and if we go one week without having to put in extra hours, we will come back the next week slacking and not focused or ready.
God fucking forbid we be treated like human beings with needs and families and friends. I am SO TIRED of having to PLAN my errands so that I can still get 6-8 hours of sleep BEFORE working 10-12 hour shifts ALL week. Most weeks, I only get ONE DAY where I don't have to put in any extra.....it's SO HARD to do errands or make appointments (without having to explain how hard it is already working night shift) and THEN get to bed early or be able to stay up if you stay late. I have only worked a few weekends and it still pisses me off that I lost time with my boyfriend and my friends because I had to work.
Ok, there's my rant. Fire away. Besides, you get taxed to shame after so many hours of OT anyway. When they up it to max amount, we don't even get to see all of it.
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