| An idea I had, tonight. With all of this overtime, naturally, I’m making extra money. And that’s good. But the more you work, the more you make, and the more you make, the more “they” take. So the fact of the matter is, the more you work, the less you earn per increment of time. That’s already well known. But that’s about all. Most of us leave it at that, and don’t bother getting a more specific idea. And that’s what I want to get. An idea about just how severely that is the case. How much less am I making, as the amount I work increases? So I set up a spreadsheet, and am going to be entering data over the next few weeks. The formulas I’ve set up will display my hour breakdown, effective hours, gross earnings, effective gross rate (gross earnings over actual worked hours), net earnings, net rate (net earnings over effective hours), and effective net rate (net earnings over actual hours worked). Then the ratio of net to gross, both actual and effective. What it really boils down to is, how much overtime (or undertime, when we get VTO!) did I work, and what percentage of what I earned did I get to keep? It will provide me with a clear indication of just how much overtime is worth it, and should be quite depressing! Speaking of work, it’s getting pretty damn annoying. They schedule too much for us to get done in an 8-hour shift, and really don’t give a fuck about it. No consideration is given to the types of loads, and when they should be taken in. Then we end up not finishing by midnight, and oh well, guess we’ll just have to stick around and finish! Assholes. You know, you just don’t do this. You do not schedule so much work, that we can bring in an extra person to help, and STILL not get done on time! What we need to do is the other way around: make sure we can finish on time, even if one of us is out. Because you never know. And I’m tired of feeling (and being told, basically) that I can’t call off on a particular day, because we’re too busy. In reality, I can call off whenever I want, if I have the points to spare, and there isn’t anything they can do about it. Aside from my coworkers getting pissy with me. And I’m getting tired of it. I didn’t schedule all that work. Don’t try to make it my responsibility. That’s just what those idiots want, and it’s why they schedule so much shit in the first place. Because they know we’ll push ourselves and each other to compensate for their stupidity. Well, they know YOU will. I won’t. Because that’s just what we need. A few nights where they schedule more than the three of us can handle, and at least one of us calls off. Yeah, it’ll be a slightly bigger headache, for that night. But if it happens enough, and it's bad enough, they’ll have no choice but to scale back the insane workloads. To pay attention to what kind of work we're taking on, because now the impact is evident. They aren't listening to our complaints because they aren't experiencing the impact. We need to direct the effect end of this back at them by removing ourselves, as buffers, from the causal interaction. It’s called making a sacrifice for the greater good, and I’d be willing to do it, if anyone else wanted to call off. I’d haul my ass in, and work in our understaffed department, and frequently complain that we’re in this situation because we created a situation where we were completely dependent on something we couldn’t guarantee. NOT because one of our team members decided to (or had to) take the day off. *sigh* It really is a burden, being able to see the big picture, like this. Because I’m just about the only one identifying the sources of problems, while everybody else is pointing their fingers at each other, and getting nowhere. I keep telling you, people, listen up before it’s too late. Learn, or things will only get worse. |
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