I for one am addicted to working overtime because I get payed way more when I do. I am not one of the salary people. And its great becasue I wind up making out with more than those that are salary sometimes with all the extra time that I get on the paycheck. My future wife doesnt like this however...

I'm a salaried individual. Unless I have a big-time project due, you can call me "tail lights" come 5pm.

Working part-time retail/having a district manager who's on our asses to make sure we don't go over 32 hours/wk. each makes it hard to hit overtime.

 

With that being said, I'd do it if it was asked of me but I wouldn't go out of my way to get overtime.

Working full-time retail and if they let us I would definitely go into overtime most weeks but the bosses are having none of that. They make sure we don't go over and if we're even close they send us home. Which can be nice when you get to leave early on a Friday or Saturday?

Used to have a job where I would put in 10 hour days to get 50 a week and the company didn't care for a few years. I was addicted to getting that high pay check. They finally told me to only work 40 and adjust my scheduling of tasks in accordance. I hate the smaller pay checks so much.

Overtime money is the best, but it depends on the job. I couldn't do it in retail, but I liked it as a desk jockey.

I'm not allowed overtime. It's rare to get it.

 

They do work me a lot of holidays though.

I wish I was an accountant, my friend will be working 60-70 hr weeks making $25ish/hr plus overtime pay. As an intern.

 

I worked overtime during my summer internship, but that was unpaid overtime (they paid 40 hrs/wk, and well so I didnt complain), and I stayed later whenever I could to get more work done. You only have so much time to make an impression.

I'm a salaried individual. Unless I have a big-time project due, you can call me "tail lights" come 5pm.

 

Ditto. With that being said, if I had major responsibilities (baby due, money owe, etc..) I wouldn't hesitate.

Yeah....I work part-time at Chilis. I have no idea what overtime is.....

I like the money, but I also like spending time with the family. At my kids' ages right now they are involved in sports or dancing or something almost every day so it's hard to work late too often. For the most part, though, if I have to stay late my wife is home to take the kids where ever they need to go.

I love me some travel weeks. Nothing like getting paid overtime for travel and extended hours on-site. 60 hours in the field is a lot different than 60 hours at a desk.

I went from working in one of our branches and having overtime watched like a hawk........to the corporate level where they still pay me hourly and I can sneak a few hours of overtime a week w/o any hesitation.

 

That comes out to a few grand over a year's time.....hoorah!

I'm on salary.

 

This is my week...

 

Monday - Wednesday : Wake up at 6am @work by 7am, leave work at 3pm, at home by ~3:35pm.

 

Thursday : Work from home day.

 

Friday - Same as Monday-Wednesday.

 

I took a "promotion" that awarded me a 17% pay increase and 5% bonus increase and I still made nearly $20K less than I did when I was hourly. The sad thing is that I'm not working that much less now and also get a lovely 2-week stretch of uncompensated oncall every couple of months. Climbing the ole ladder....gotta love it.

I took a "promotion" that awarded me a 17% pay increase and 5% bonus increase and I still made nearly $20K less than I did when I was hourly. The sad thing is that I'm not working that much less now and also get a lovely 2-week stretch of uncompensated oncall every couple of months. Climbing the ole ladder....gotta love it.

 

Sounds like IT work.

I'm salaried, and I work a bizarre schedule.

 

12 hour shifts, rotating 5 week schedule which includes nights, weekends, holidays with no extra compensation for any one shift versus another. However, I do get about 16 weeks of paid vacation a year, so I'm not complaining.

 

 

I'm on salary.

 

This is my week...

 

Monday - Wednesday : Wake up at 6am @work by 7am, leave work at 3pm, at home by ~3:35pm.

 

Thursday : Work from home day.

 

Friday - Same as Monday-Wednesday.

 

 

That used to be my schedule but with a slightly longer commute. Now I have an even longer commute with no work from home days. But I've been salary for the past 12 years with no overtime except an occasional week of being on-call.

 

 

I'm a salaried individual. Unless I have a big-time project due, you can call me "tail lights" come 5pm.

 

Yep.

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I wish I was an accountant, my friend will be working 60-70 hr weeks making $25ish/hr plus overtime pay. As an intern.

 

I worked overtime during my summer internship, but that was unpaid overtime (they paid 40 hrs/wk, and well so I didnt complain), and I stayed later whenever I could to get more work done. You only have so much time to make an impression.

And when you switch full time, the big firms will pay you salary and have you worked 60-80 hours a week for a few months of the year, lol.

 

But I do work over-time. If I'm busy, I stick around to get my s*** done. However, that doesn't make me an extra time, but I'm proud of what I do and I have am very ambitious and want to climb the ranks so if that means working on some extra projects or something, so be it.

I'm salaried, and I work a bizarre schedule.

 

12 hour shifts, rotating 5 week schedule which includes nights, weekends, holidays with no extra compensation for any one shift versus another. However, I do get about 16 weeks of paid vacation a year, so I'm not complaining.

16 weeks? WTF? Is this a Swedish company or something?

 

16 weeks? WTF? Is this a Swedish company or something?

Hah, no, but it is a quasi-governmental company (a public utility).

 

Basically we have a 5-week rotating schedule. There are approximately 10 of these 5-week cycles in a year. In each cycle, we work 14 shifts (12 hours each). However, we work these 14 shifts over the course of 3 weeks, which leaves 2 weeks remaining in the 5-week cycle. 1 week is then designated for "training" or "projects." And 1 week is designated as a "long change," which is a built in vacation.

 

Then we get allotted vacation hours like every one else, plus the same number of federal holidays as everyone else, to compensate us for having to be available to work those holidays. This adds up to like 216 hours or so, or 27 days of vacation. You then use these 27 days to take off those days designated as "training" or "project" days, which happen to precede your "long change" in every 5-week cycle.

 

What this basically breaks down to is January through May, I get 1 week off out of every 5 weeks, then the rest of the year I get two weeks off out of every 5 weeks. It sucks to have to work nights/weekends/some holidays, but the long stretches of vacation are really nice.

And when you switch full time, the big firms will pay you salary and have you worked 60-80 hours a week for a few months of the year, lol.

 

But I do work over-time. If I'm busy, I stick around to get my s*** done. However, that doesn't make me an extra time, but I'm proud of what I do and I have am very ambitious and want to climb the ranks so if that means working on some extra projects or something, so be it.

Haha yea thats true, the interns make more tahn the entry level accountants.

 

Exactly, I feel that right now without family tying me down is the time I have to fulfill the ambition I have.

I work 4 days on, then have 4 days off. My schedule is different every week. I'll be off tomorrow through Saturday, then have to work Sunday through Wednesday next week. I work 12 hour shifts during those 4 days, 6 AM to 6 PM with an unpaid hour lunch break. So I get 44 hours a week. But, since the schedule changes every week, I have two small checks in a row and then two large checks, with 8 hours of OT, in a row. I get paid every two weeks. But I get what amounts to 16 days of paid time off at the start of every year. I've already burned through it for this year because of my son. I get a Christmas bonus every year that escalates by $100 up until it reaches $1,000, which is the maximum anyone gets. This year I get $700, next year $800, then so on. Plus, since I work for a Catholic television network, they give you $1,000 for every baby you have. $2,000 if you have more than one at a time. If both you and your spouse work here, then you each get that baby bonus. Maybe I shouldn't have had a vasectomy. I also get 11 hours of pay on holidays regardless of whether or not I'm actually scheduled to work that day in addition to my regular 11 hours. So, I either get paid double for working holidays, or I just get an extra day of pay during the week of a holiday. My job isn't very stressful at all, it mostly involves killing time. Lastly, I'm on an escalating pay scale to get me to where I make the same money other people who do my job in this market make. I've been guaranteed a $2,500 annual raise over the next 3 years, but my salary target number will go up during that time because I will be hitting 10 consecutive years of service time in January of 2013.

Plus, since I work for a Catholic television network, they give you $1,000 for every baby you have. $2,000 if you have more than one at a time. If both you and your spouse work here, then you each get that baby bonus.

 

Sounds like IT work.

 

Long haul backbone so, yeah, pretty close to IT type of service and demands.