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> CP wrote --
>> > I would have continued working, maybe, had I not been considered a work
> horse who was on call 24/7 and to drop everything and hurry off somewhere at
> the last minute.
>>Up here, if you were "on call" you have to be paid $15.65/hour for that time,
> minimum.
> No such thing as that in security.  Its over time after 40 hours and
> that's it.

If you're given 40 hours of scheduled shifts, then everything you do beyond 
that is OT?

>> Naturally employers still try to sneak it past people. . .
> I had a captain one time who liked to jerk people around.  He would have
> someone on one post one day, the next day another, the third day a third
> post, etc.
> Each post had its own time sheet.  At the end of the week they were all
> collected, time added up, etc.
> He often would "lose" a time sheet.  When the employee inquired about the
> missing pay he would claim they never worked that post and not getting paid.
> Caused a lot of hard feelings and also cost the company a lot of employees.

This is why I check how often a company hires new staff before applying;
trying to avoid such. . .

> I was in parking at the time and never happened to me, we had copies of
> our time sheets, signed off by someone in authority.  The head of parking,
>and if she wasn't around the chief of police.  If  he wasn't around it went on
> down the chain of command.  Onc
> Carolyn, my civilian boss, wanted a copy for her files and we had a copy
> to CYA.

I have a copy of every schedule sent out, & every email from the company, or 
from me to it -- it's come in handy -- I just had to, once, reply to a
6-month  old email regarding a topic, & then they knew I had records &
everything's been copacetic since.. .

The owner is quite honest, but he used to have a bookkeeper that took a 
disliking to me.  He even took to telling other staff to get a copy of
anything from me, if they didn't believe  him on something.

I get her attitude -- she was 1,000% loyal to the owner, & misunderstood a 
notation I'd made regarding lunch time away from office.   I set my alarm on my
phone to give me a 20-minute lunch, then mark what it was I was gone.  I was 
gone 22 minutes one day, & put that in, but the guy I went to eat with just 
marked down a flat 30 daily, without checking (he'd also been out 22-25 that 
day.); I said nothing, knowing my actions would bear me out to my boss, & 
knowing she was hyper loyal to him, & that worked for me, as was/am I!

I was eal sad when, after he'd do me a favour by switching a shift in the 
schedule, & then he would, same day,. ask for a favour (extra half shift or 
something(paid, of course), as I knew it was because the youngsters don't
keep  track of how he gets a favour in the bank for later.  Again, I let my
actions  prove myself & he caught on quickly enough. As I have come to expect
from  working directly for owners, who have a vested interest in things going
well on all levels & angles. They will not abuse nor insult me, because I'm
worth money in the bank. When I make mistakes, I get a gentle word to the
wise, while  others might be fired the same day for a similar gaffe.

Raises happen regularly & without my asking, because a good owner knows the 
value of their staff & knows the value to a competitor I could be, if I 
needed(&, natch, deserved) more money than I was getting.

I've only worked for good owners, so I'm the only guy I know with no bad boss 
stories or complaints!  I like it that way -- another way to live long --
don't get stress.

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