During the summer is our busy season, which results in mandatory overtime. My position was always exempt from mandatory OT until last year. Understand, we work 12 hour shifts alternating 3/4 days per work week (so 36 hours one week, 48 the next and so on).
With mandatory OT, we were working 5 or 6 days a week. So, basically, no life outside of work. We all bucked up and did it anyway. Then we were told that other sections were getting a temporary $5/hour raise because of mandatory OT and difficulty retaining employees. Great!
Wrong. We were told our section (eight people) was not eligible for that temporary bump in pay. Why not? Because So&So (upper management) said no. No other reason, no explanation. We were doing the same mandatory overtime, running out asses off , just like everyone else, but we didn’t count. I know the same thing will happen this summer, too. How hard is it to boost pay for an additional eight people when you are already doing it for over a hundred others? Talk about making us feel unappreciated.