Overtime pay

[lazysundays]

One overnight at overtime pay :$380 take home. Yeah I guess that was worth it

We haven't had overtime in years but now my coworkers are dropping like flies with no new hires until the company sale is finalized.

How many of you freely accept extra hours for extra pay? We had a point a few years back where they were very short staffed with a firing freeze and management was scratching their heads why people didn't want the overtime. There's a point when it's just too much work and we are all worn out. The salaried managers finally had to take a few shifts/ extra hours.

[Deleted]

I do!  Before kids I'd come in on Saturdays to help out. Now that I have the kiddos I take work home twice a week.

[Deleted]

I wish I got paid for extra hours. Yes I would take them for the pay.

[justme]

I prefer to take it comp time. By the time they take out additional taxes, 401k, the amount I get seems like not enough for the hours spent. I can't always take comp time though, since it has to be used in the same pay period. But I do love the unexpected Fri off without using PTO when I can swing it.

[TheOtherMe]

Since I only have a season job at this time in my life, I love the OT hours.  Hourly rate isn't all that much, but the OT rate is nice.

[NastyWoman]

Nothing for me. OT is expected as needed, but neither money nor comp time are given. They call this "casual overtime" implying voluntary time given, but there are departments where OT is planned into the week. Not mine though but I still work 50+hrs per...

[msventoux]

Around 6 or 7 months out of the year you can pretty much work as much overtime as you want here.  I'm going for a better work/life balance now, but 2 years ago I went almost 4 months without a day off.  The money was nice, but it's also offset with the option of working reduced hours in the summer if you choose.

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

Well, I haven't worked for a number of years... and my last 3 jobs were salaried (and involved 60-70 hours a week) .... so the thought of getting paid extra to work lots of hours seems nice.

[coffeegrl]

No overtime pay where I work.  My contract I signed states that I am to work 40 hours per week and I will not be monetarily compensated if I choose to spend more than 40 hours per week in my office.  (I'm one of 5 supervisors for a department at a state university.)  There have been times when I (and the other supervisors) have had to work a few hours outside of our regularly scheduled times, but then we just take the time off somewhere else in that pay period (or the next one if it's too late in that pay period to do so).  But that's hush-hush and other departments around campus who have employees with the same type of contract might not be letting their employees do the same thing.

[Ombud]

I was mgmt @ county so OT was expected but not compensated. I'm salaried now but don't want OT even though the pay would be substantial

[haapai]

I'm hourly and there was a time in my life when I was so stretched that a single hour of overtime doubled my discretionary income for that week.  Obviously, I loved overtime back then.  If properly funneled into debt repayment, each hour of OT brought me a week closer to a lessening of the extremely uncomfortable and dangerous situation that I was in. 

But I had to be careful to never appear to be the cause of OT.  (It killed our metrics and, if overused, would result in an absolute ban on OT even when it was desperately needed.)  Since I really didn't know what I was doing, or how long any task took, the only way that I could avoid the suspicion that I was milking OT was to work my butt off no matter what. 

Since then, there have been several long stretches of time during which "No OT, no matter what." was the rule.  I've never regretted using OT to pay down debt or training myself to avoid causing it.  It can disappear at any time. 

So I almost always take it. 

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

I'm not supposed to work overtime. I'm paid off of grants and they calculate things based on me being here 40 hrs a week period. Well research doesn't always neatly fit into a M-F 8 hour work day schedule. There are times when I am here later, on weekends or at night.

Payroll has a hissy but it is what it is. I had a fight with them when I came in three nights a week to treat rats. They can suck it, I'm going to report the time I am here working whether they like it or not.

[Deleted]

We are forced to work OT during our busy season.

I love the checks but hate the force.

The rest of the year we are asked to if needed.

I usually will because again, love the checks and I feel nicer about it when asked  instead of forced.

[The Captain]

My specialty usually is salaried, but there was a glorious short period of time when I worked in public accounting that we were paid OT after we filled our comp time bank.

I volunteered for the largest engagement in the region and got all the OT I wanted and then some.  There was a period of about 4 months or so where we didn't get a single day off.  My paychecks were double what they normally were during that period and I was able to pay off all my SL's in 5 years instead of 10.

My BIL is hourly and the understanding is that if you turn down OT you move to the bottom of the list to be offered it again.  He never turns it down and will likely be able to retire VERY comfortably at 54 or 55.