‘They always compare themselves to factory shift-work (punch the clock) employees that get paid over-time if they do anything extra’
Agreed.
Many of us hourlies ,especially over the last 3 years have taken not only pay-cuts(20% myself), but work additional hours and have been given extra tasks done by others who quit/laid-off, in order NOT only to keep our jobs but to keep companies we work for,afloat.
I haven’t seen a raise since 2007 and vacation time is a half a day here or half a day there.
I am sure many folks are in the same predicament.
Even contracting crowds have gotten really weird and bad in some cases.
The past few months working for a crowd based in Florida (I will never do that again) has found more and more excuses to skimp and cheap out.
Yesterday I called these yo-yos for the first time with a situation where I actually needed their assistance regarding their rental van. The old battleaxe in charge of money gave me different flavors of no, no, it costs too much, we won’t reimburse you, we will dock you, etc, etc. After about 10 minutes of that, I admit I lost it with her.
I called my next to useless supervisor and talked to him. He wasn’t surprised and he said he would try. Eventually it was agreed to express mail me a check.
Apparently they have no contigency plan of any kind and would rather take a chance that nothing happens. Today is my last day for a couple of weeks and I am not going back.
If I can’t find something else, worst case I will liquidate several years of state gov retirement.
Beware the Roelker Group. Beware HP. Beware Bank Of America.