Some of us ‘accidentally’ loaded the batteries in our pagers backwards. This in the mid 90’s.
Our group wasn’t an ‘on call’ group and didn’t qualify for the ‘on call’ 100% bonus pool. And yet, nearly every weekend we’d get at least one ‘all hands on deck’ page.
_____ that. You want on call service? Pay us the 100% bonus pool on call money.
“_____ that. You want on call service? Pay us the 100% bonus pool on call money.”
As long as I got paid, I was okay with unlimited OT. I didn’t even care that most of the time it was at 50% lower than the normal pay rate, as most professionals don’t get OT. But when I was there I was working 100% for the company. I had very little down time. If they made us work extra it was because somebody had done some p*ss poor management. As one employee said, “Failure to plan on their part is not an emergency on my part.”