overtime

[kc8yhk]

just wondered what everyone thinks of this new overtime BS http://news.yahoo.com/news?tm....olitics (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040820/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/overtime_politics)

i drive truck and log 14 hours a day and wont EVER EVER see a dime from overtime.. 3 years behind the wheel now= 3 years too many.

73
mike

[WA5KRP]

Sorry. Can't help.

I'm one of those slobs that would be given a job and had to get the muther done. The only time factor was called a deadline.


WA5KRP
Texas

[w5alt]

I've heard about overtime, but can't speak from experience. The only "overtime" I'm personally familiar with is when your chatting on the radio and it's time to say "over".

73,
Walt, W5ALT

[WA2ZDY]

I want to thank you guys. I need to be reminded how well I've got it. I DO get overtime in my job. If I didn't, I'd find another job. I think eight hours in the state prison is quite enough every day and if they want more, they're gonna PAY for it.

Only seems fair. But then it seems fair that every job should be like that. Maybe not managers; after all, nobody forced most managers to work for the promotions, but still . . . if you work it, you should be paid for it.

Goodness knows the BIG guys in the plush offices are paid - for their work AND for yours.

[K3UD]

I have not seen what I consider to be a reasonable analysis of the new law. All we seem to get is the political propoganda being put out by both parties.

I got my my first "for real" job when I was not quite 16 and had to have "working papers" (anyone remember them?) It was quite a step up from my former paper route job. Both my parents believed in the idea of developing a work ethic early.

I worked in a delicatessen from 5-9 PM (in theory at least) 3 nights a week and from 4-9 PM on Saturday and Sunday. for the princely sum of $1.10 / hr. More money in my pocket than I have ever seen in my life!

My store closing jobs were to level the store (bring the stock on the shelves to the front of the shelf) #wash the storefront window, and clean the meat slicer, before I left work. While these were easy jobs, they took some time.

Often, there were still customers in the store at closing time who had to be taken care of and there always seemed to be the customer who came into the store at 8:59:59, after the cutter had been cleaned and wanted 1/4 lb of boiled ham sliced thin.

I was told when I was hired that I would be paid until 9 PM but the work would be done before I left regardless of how long it took after 9 pm. Since I wanted the job, I went along with it (and really did not know enough to have an objection) Usually I got to leave between 9 and 9:30 but sometimes it was closer to 10.

(maybe this kind of past retail business practice is where Wal-Mart got the idea of unpaid overtime for employees who are eligible for it).

One day I was told by the owner that I was getting a raise because of the good job I was doing. I felt real good about it until I found out later (much later) that the minimum wage had been raised and he had to do it.

I left that job shortly after and got a job at a semi major supermarket chain in the Philadelphia area. They sent me to cashier training and I started at $3.35 hour and had to join the teamsters union (at age 17, what did I know about not being able to enter into what amounted to a #contract?) the pay was great for the time period (early 1968) and I had pocket money (almost $300/month) beyond my wildest dreams. Unfortunately, there was some trouble between the union and the supermarket chain and in the end, the chain went out of business in 1970. Oddly enough, the building is still in standing, sitting empty for most of its life, but is now a furniture store in the Logan Square Shopping Center in Norristown PA. I take a look at it everything i visit my dad who still lives in the area.

73
George
K3UD