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     CP wrote --   
       
   > If you're given 40 hours of scheduled shifts, then everything you do beyond   
   that is OT?   
      
     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.   
        
   > I have a copy of every schedule sent out, & every email from the company, or   
   from me to it -- it's come in handy   
      
     Unless I was somewhere on a regular basis I kept a record of where I was   
   and the hours on a calendar.  (Being old-fashioned I prefer real paper   
   ones).  I would write in the daily block where I was and the hours.   
     Time sheets were kept on the post for about six months then discarded.    
   (Being a rather frugal person, I sometimes took those home to use the back   
   for scratch paper, etc).     
          
   > I get her attitude -- she was 1,000% loyal to the owner, & misunderstood a   
   notation I'd made regarding lunch time away from office.      
      
     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.     
     Anything really important was written in red.  Those were few and far   
   between.   
     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   
   time sheet there was no notation for lunch and a straight eight hour day.   
     In parking we followed Marshall's rules and no one worked more than 37.5   
   house a week.  It was rare anyone worked 40 hours a week.  So on my daily   
   there it was always something like "1200-1230 lunch".     
     But there was nothing like "Oh, its 10 o'clock, time for break" or "It's   
   time for lunch".  We took our breaks and lunch whenever we wanted, just so   
   the time for lunch was recorded.   
      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.     
      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.   
      After about a week of this foolishness my civilian boss gave my super a   
   piece of her mind and it was no more and back to normal.   
      (My civilian boss, Carolyn, was great.  She looked like Bea Arthur and   
   had the same attitude.  If you were right she backed you all the way, if you   
   were wrong, look out!  :)  )   
      And my daily was:   
      0800 Arrived on post.   
      0900 Patrol and ticket   
      1000 Patrol and ticket   
      
     And on though the day.   
     Many were the times I would do a daily for a couple of days then bring   
   them up to date at the end of week when I turned in the paperwork. :)   
     If I were doing something other than patrol and ticket it was listed as   
   traffic control, special project, etc.  Special project was a wide open catch   
   all for anything other then patrol and ticketing or traffic control.     
      Those dailies were glanced over for anything unusual, then filed away   
   and never looked at again.      
      
   > Raises happen regularly & without my asking   
      
     Raises were rare and far between.   
     One got a raise with a promotion, but otherwise not so much.   
     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   
     Joe   
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