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'Tis the season
Nov. 21st, 2007 10:25 pm... for mandatory overtime.
This is my third Christmas season working at this place, so I know how it goes - we get really busy before Christmas and everyone has to work overtime. But this year looks like it's going to be the worst ever.
Kevin came by our area today and said that next week is fifteen hours of mandatory overtime, and the week after that will probably be twenty. That's a LOT of overtime. The past two years, we've never had to do more than ten, although more was always optional.
Then, when we were outside on break, Ryan said, "Did you guys know we're on ten hours mandatory overtime right now?" Meri, Tina, and I did not know, but that's what Ryan heard Kevin say to Paul. Then Ryan was saying, "First five, then eight, now ten..."
I was like, "What? Five? Eight? I didn't hear about those! Where was I when he was telling us this stuff?"
The last I heard about the overtime situation was that it was highly suggested. Apparently, the past two or three weeks have been increasing amounts of mandatory overtime, but I didn't get the memo. And that's probably because Kevin doesn't write memos. He just goes around to everybody and tells them. Well, somehow, he skipped me, so I had no idea. I've been working some overtime, six hours one week, then seven, but I'm nowhere near ten this week. Plus, since this week has a holiday, any overtime won't be time and a half, it'll just be normal.
It's not like I got yelled at or anything, for not putting in the hours I was unaware I was supposed to. It's just that after Christmas, if they have to get rid of some employees, they're going to get rid of the ones who didn't work enough overtime. But even knowing that doesn't scare me, because I feel very secure in my job. Of the employees they would be looking at to get rid of, I've been there the longest, and I think I'm very valuable to them. So mostly it's just frustrating that I didn't know about it. But then, if Kevin wants us on mandatory overtime, he has to TELL us.
As for next week and the month of December, I'm already very depressed about the whole thing. Just thinking about it makes me want to cry. Don't they know we have other things to do besides work? I may have to try to get to work at 5:30 every morning, and get some overtime hours in the morning, since many nights, I can't be staying until 7:00. And Saturdays may no longer be just a few hours. I'll probably have to spend all day there.
When will I have time to go to Curves? When will I have time to practice the organ? Will I have to skip Bible studies and band practices? I definitely can't skip choir practice, because I'm paid to do that. And if I have to get up at 4:00 every morning, I have to go to bed at about 9:00, and that cuts the evening pretty short. There are only 24 hours in a day, and I don't want to spend half of them at work every day.
This SUCKS. I'm not going to have any free time to enjoy Christmas. And by finding all this out today, it kind of put a damper on Thanksgiving too.
This is my third Christmas season working at this place, so I know how it goes - we get really busy before Christmas and everyone has to work overtime. But this year looks like it's going to be the worst ever.
Kevin came by our area today and said that next week is fifteen hours of mandatory overtime, and the week after that will probably be twenty. That's a LOT of overtime. The past two years, we've never had to do more than ten, although more was always optional.
Then, when we were outside on break, Ryan said, "Did you guys know we're on ten hours mandatory overtime right now?" Meri, Tina, and I did not know, but that's what Ryan heard Kevin say to Paul. Then Ryan was saying, "First five, then eight, now ten..."
I was like, "What? Five? Eight? I didn't hear about those! Where was I when he was telling us this stuff?"
The last I heard about the overtime situation was that it was highly suggested. Apparently, the past two or three weeks have been increasing amounts of mandatory overtime, but I didn't get the memo. And that's probably because Kevin doesn't write memos. He just goes around to everybody and tells them. Well, somehow, he skipped me, so I had no idea. I've been working some overtime, six hours one week, then seven, but I'm nowhere near ten this week. Plus, since this week has a holiday, any overtime won't be time and a half, it'll just be normal.
It's not like I got yelled at or anything, for not putting in the hours I was unaware I was supposed to. It's just that after Christmas, if they have to get rid of some employees, they're going to get rid of the ones who didn't work enough overtime. But even knowing that doesn't scare me, because I feel very secure in my job. Of the employees they would be looking at to get rid of, I've been there the longest, and I think I'm very valuable to them. So mostly it's just frustrating that I didn't know about it. But then, if Kevin wants us on mandatory overtime, he has to TELL us.
As for next week and the month of December, I'm already very depressed about the whole thing. Just thinking about it makes me want to cry. Don't they know we have other things to do besides work? I may have to try to get to work at 5:30 every morning, and get some overtime hours in the morning, since many nights, I can't be staying until 7:00. And Saturdays may no longer be just a few hours. I'll probably have to spend all day there.
When will I have time to go to Curves? When will I have time to practice the organ? Will I have to skip Bible studies and band practices? I definitely can't skip choir practice, because I'm paid to do that. And if I have to get up at 4:00 every morning, I have to go to bed at about 9:00, and that cuts the evening pretty short. There are only 24 hours in a day, and I don't want to spend half of them at work every day.
This SUCKS. I'm not going to have any free time to enjoy Christmas. And by finding all this out today, it kind of put a damper on Thanksgiving too.
