UTMC

You know it. You all know it. That moment, twenty minutes or so before clocking off time, when the boss comes marching to your desk, that look on her face (or his face, doesn't really matter).
You know you did a boo-boo somewhere and are going to receive a chewing out. Something nice to take home.
So that's what happened to me today.
There she comes. Grim, determined look on her face. She arrives and hovers over me to see whether I have a customer on the phone.
I tell her I'm free. I brace myself. She begins.
"You've collected too much overtime."
"Uh-huh..."
"You're gonna stay home tomorrow and the day after."
"Okay...could I maybe get thursday and friday instead..."
"No discussion!"

Bosses, ey?
"Okay, okay..."

Noice waan, maaate!


Hell, I'd take time off over extra pay any day! Put yer feet up, relax in the sunshine, go to a different cafe and treat yourself to a bottle of their cheapest red. ENJOY!

"Nah, I don't think so. More like chewed out. I've been chewed out before."



-Rench

Seems like it could have gone worse. Enjoy your free time.

i thought you were gonna say that you got in hot water for spending to much time on this site!

xaos wrote:i thought you were gonna say that you got in hot water for spending to much time on this site!

I never visit the site from work. I actually do not have the time for web-surfing. 'cause there's work to do. Also my boss scares me.

Collect over time and get days off, sounds good to me.

I wish someone told me I worked too much overtime!

This year I've racked up a total of 16 hours. Not of overtime, mind you... plain old ordinary regular paid time.

16 glorious not at home changing poopy diapers plain old ordinary regular paid time.

The whole boss thing though, yeah, kinda sucky.

That's right up there with out-of-school suspension, in my book. jangleplatz! You can go smoke behind the convenience store with your buds!

That is the most retarded thing I have ever heard. Your boss is angry because you worked too much?

Wacky Europeans.

Just made me think of this...

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I'm in your boat Zim, except -14 hours. The two hours I did work weren't paid, as it was an assclown who wanted to be a client but also wanted me to steal, word for word, image for image, his competitors advertising material and put his company name on it. It's nice being able to literally tell a client to go fuck himself.

I'd love to have a boss that didn't want me to work overtime tho, I fucking hate overtime. I feel like I'll be dead too soon without working evenings and weekends. All so some shitsack CEO can save a few dimes by not having to pay employee bennys at the cost of my free time.

Corporate USA is boiled poop stew!

I'd just like to point out that the total of 35 hours or so of overtime I had accumulated all came from two minutes here, two minutes there, sometimes five, sometimes ten, rarely as much as fifteen or twenty that happen when I have to take a last call like 1 minute before my shift ends and I can't just hang up on 'em...

DerGolgo wrote:I'd just like to point out that . . . when I have to take a last call like 1 minute before my shift ends and I can't just hang up on 'em...

No, you can't, but if quitting time is 17:00 and a call comes in at 16:57, do serve that valuable client, but at 16:59, inform them that you can't talk to them any further due to OT restrictions, that you must put them on hold so thewy casn listen to shitty music while you transfer them to . . .

your boss.

Enjoy your time walking past her office at 17:01 as she's fumbling around trying to figure what the fuck she's supposed to do.

Zer0 wrote:

DerGolgo wrote:I'd just like to point out that . . . when I have to take a last call like 1 minute before my shift ends and I can't just hang up on 'em...

No, you can't, but if quitting time is 17:00 and a call comes in at 16:57, do serve that valuable client, but at 16:59, inform them that you can't talk to them any further due to OT restrictions, that you must put them on hold so thewy casn listen to shitty music while you transfer them to . . .

your boss.

Enjoy your time walking past her office at 17:01 as she's fumbling around trying to figure what the fuck she's supposed to do.

Wouldn't work. 1) I actually have to finish that call, unless I can find a reason to transfer them to another department. Them's standing orders. 2) My boss knows exactly what to do. 3) I'd be in genuine trouble if I did that.

Also, you wouldn't get time off.

You're lucky they keep track. I always used to get ambushed and detained by a boss when I'm on my way out the door, for 5 or 10 minutes, at a job that pays in 15 minute increments, and where standing around for 5 minutes so that you get the full 15 would get you fired. God I fucking hate that.