My wife works at a credit union that has for the past five years allowed overtime to an extent (few hours a week no problem) as customers could be late or audits etc.
Yesterday she discovered that this is no longer the case. A coworker of hers got an hour an a half of overtime just from meeting business needs and HR pulled his and my wife's boss out of a class shes out of town for to discuss this 'issue' with him. Overtime is now to be kept to under an hour a week.
They found out about this policy change yesterday by way of eating a writeup. We're sitting here wondering 'why'. My guess is there's a new bonus structure for HR that nobody knows about but I'm just one guy. Anybody have an idea why they would change this quickly and harshly?
Only other thing I can think of is politics as the branch manager got brought in with “we heard you're leaving and taking your whole crew with you” which wasn't true at the time. It may be now but that's beside the point