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No OT? RU kidding me? |
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I always fing the 80+ hours/week claims difficult |
| Date Posted: |
02/22/2006 |
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While those hired after August 1, 2003 were told of the new OT policy in their offer letters, others were not. I no longer work for the firm, but my start date was on a Wednesday. Two days before (Monday), the HR director for my office called me to tell me they changed the OT policy.
I worked on projects that demanded a lot of OT - I consistently worked 80+ hours a week. I figured it out once, and the policy cost me well over 300 hours of OT pay in the course of my first year. The 3% bump in base salary we were given to compensate for the change did not even come close to making up for those hours. |
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I seen the work here for 12+ years now. I agree there are spikes in hours to the 80+ hour range, but that is USUALLY very shortlived. The longest I have ever, ever seen it is 3 months.
The claims of 60+ hours/week are usually exagerated as well.
The norm for Consulting is around 50-52 hours. There are peaks above this. I know that. But there are also valleys below it which seems to be forgotten by most making the high hours claims.
Not challenging your specific case, but I have never found CONSISTENT 80+ weeks for an extended period of time in my time here.
That being said, I did a year over year analysis with a group of AN/Con in my office who felt they would lose "significant money" with the new OT policy. Stepping up to the challenge, I asked them to track it with me.
What we found is out of the 20 folks who volunteered to track it with me, 2 lost money, about neutral for 12, and 6 made more money with the removal of "80 hour bank" policy and 3 or 5% bump in pay.
And the amount that the people lost money was on the order of 5-7%.
So the OT policy change, FOR MOST PEOPLE, in my sampling, made them more money than lost and only 10% came out short.
The key to this process we did with the 20 AN/Con was to do it over the entire year, and not an individual pay period. You know what, when you took those 2 weeks off at Christmas...the 3% in pay was included...AND, it brings down your average hours per week.
Anyway, thats what we found over the course of a year.
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