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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.   
      
   --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-6   
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