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> For hourly people its the law.  If on salary they can work you 24/7 for
> the same amount as straight time.
> I had a salary job once, for 15 years.  Many was the week I put in 50-60
> hours and maybe given an extra $10 in cash at the end of the week.
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That's downright insulting! I'd give my 14-minute notice: "You'll notice in 
about two weeks that I've been gone two weeks; that's your two weeks notice."

> and the hours on a calendar.  (Being old-fashioned I prefer real paper

Same; except now I make a notepad file for each day, that I use for notes 
during my shift, & I save it with the number of hours I did & how many are 
full-pay hours (if on-call, I get minimum wage for those hours; if the phone 
rings & I'm needed, I get my full, professional wage level; for those hours!

I have final determination of which hours are which, as I submit an invoice 
with an honest reckoning every two weeks, to our accountant.  

No micromanagement was just how I liked to work; give me the overview of
what's needed & how you normally do things, then set me loose on it. . .

I provide reports of anything of note that are rightful for the owner to know, 
&/or could be used for training purposes.  Keeping my boss updated is my role 
everywhere.  They fdresserveto know where their money is going.

Same as when I get an itemized statement from a hospital or doctor before I
pay them.

Have caught several people trying to scam non-covered procedures. I document 
all the facts & I let the insurance's doctor know, then I do as directed 
(that's where the money my boss pays me comes from; so yes, sir; no, sir, &
my  day is good.  My cheques clear the bank every fortnight, so I'm a happy
camper!

> In security we had to keep a daily activity log (DAR), we called "a
> daily".
> One was filled out each shift with start/stop time, and an hourly report
> of what was going on.  Mostly its just something like:
> 0800 - Arrived on post, relived so-and-so (if one to relieve), made
> inspection round.  All appears secure.  Monitoring lobby (or whatever we were
> there to do).
> 0900- Monitoring lobby
> This went on for the entire day and at the end:
> 1600  Relieved by so-and-so, off post.
> Anything out of the ordinary was recorded such as alarms and what was
> done, suspicious person/event and how handled, etc.

Oy! Annoying; can you put in blocks of time, & just itemize individual events 
within the right one?

> Except in parking we had no designated lunch time and ate on post and not
> recorded since we were at our desk, podium, whatever, when we ate.  So our

The law here is we must have 30 minutes(unpaid) time in an 8-hour shift, away 
from our workspace & with no responsibilities (i.e. can't be on call for the 
time, like my job required on night shifts when it was only me. I could've 
demanded someone be assigned to relieve me at 02h00; I was happy to ensure my 
30 minutes was paid in full, ad if I hads no lunch.

I'm not here(life) to cause problems.

> I had a supervisor who wanted to know where I was and what I was doing
> every minute, literally.
> I spent more time recording this than working.

Ai chihuahua -- that's annoying! But assigned bosses are still bosses, eh?

I tend to be literal in everything with this type, so they figure out,
quicker, that it's a dumb way to operate -- let me have freedom to at & I'll
take care  of business (twice I was in a position where the entire company was
on my  shoulders for 4 or more hours straight! Naturally I acquitted myself
well &  cemented my importance to the company. Only one other could've done it
& no way she would've without a financial reward specific to the occasion (Not
me -- I'm on the clock, I don't care much what I'm doing. While others are
still training for one position, in 8-12 weeks, I'm prepared to be put
anywhere in the company
& do the job right, with no notice.)

> My daily would read something like:
> 0800 Arrived on post, got radio and writer.
> 0810 Got golf cart and began patrol and ticketing.
> 0813 Tickets D Lot.
> 0816 Ticketed B lot..
> And this went on all blessed day long.

Couldn't you let your ticket book do the talking for when you write tickets?

Did you have quota encouragements or demands?

Here the courts have ruled that tickets given by private parking spaces are
not valid. Of course, they have the right to refuse entry, but they cannot dun
for  payment. I always advise people to meet the manager & negotiate a
compromise  payment to close the file & open up their lots again to them.

> This was one thing that really irked me.
> Everyone was given a raise to $10 an hour a year or so ago.  But my raise
> went up only 50 cents to $10.50 an hour.
> I was upset since with the raise I was making only 50 cents more an hour
> than a new hire right off the street with 15 years experience and being a
> lieutenant.  I had been making $1.50 an hour more than the others.  I felt my
> pay should have gone up that muc

Yup, it belittles your experience & added value.  One charity organisation
I'm  on the board of, had to increase our pay to those getting minimum wage
(most  non-managers) so we increased it for the managers as well, for the
reasons you  cite there -- we don't need to be belittling our people we rely
on, who've been with us a long time & work well. Luckily we got our main
funding source to  raise their yearly grant to us to include the higher
payroll costs, plus a COL  indexing yearly for all paid staff.

I enthusiastically supported this whole approach, as I'm all about fairness.

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