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« on: Yesterday at 09:45:39 pm »
My life now basically revolves around analysis. Projects and cases start with a lack of data and are closed on my terms.
"My terms" does not mean input from bean counters 2200 miles from my facilities. Nor does it mean an arbitrary set of decisions made by people who are not actually in the decision-making team. Everyone else's jobs look easy, so why NOT tell Doktor Howl how he should do his job? I can actually answer that question, though, as I have a great deal of pent-up wrath that needs disposing of, and I don't believe in raining that sort of shit down on my subordinates.
Example: My unionized employees get time and a half on Saturday and double time on Sunday, and we bid a project accordingly. The guys all took one day off later in the week (our week goes Saturday to Friday) for some R&R, as we are going to be working for several weekends.
Useless Payroll Object emails me and tells me that they're not getting OT for Sunday because they all took a weekday off. No 40 hours, no overtime.
But the contract doesn't say that. It says "Any work suffered on Saturday is time and a half, and any work suffered on Sunday is at double time."
Useless Payroll Object says that *offends* her, and sends the wrong incentives and why do they all get a one hour lunch instead of a half hour?
I once again explain that A) the contract is clear, B) we bid this job at overtime and double time, and if we pay our people less, we've committed a federal crime, and C) neither of those things care if her little authoritarian heart is offended by the idea that we pay people extra for extra work.
She argued some more, so I fed her to the union rep. The End.