GraveYard Shift BS

gotta love that. weve had a rough month or two a while back where 3 of us were were the only ones working to cover a months worth of shifts. way too many 12 and 16 hour days back to back 7 days a week. good paycheck but man I was beat. the wife wasn't a fan either.

 

Yeah, the fiancee isn't gonna like this one, I'm sure.

I'm just hoping our beer league team has an earlier game that Sunday.. So maybe I could still make the game before shift

I also just found out last night that I can throw extra holiday time onto my timecard to count as OT, which is nice.

 

does it count as holiday time? even without going into OT our holiday time is 2.0

 

I think it just counts as regular time and a half OT. I don't think we get holiday time since all of our holiday PTO is floating.

 

fair enough. sadly we don't get many days considered holidays.

 

I'd have to look to see how many hours we actually get floating each year. I haven't really paid attention to much of that, I just take it if I have it.

 

yea same here, we get 2 true floating holidays, but if we work on a holiday and don't want to take the holiday ot we can save it and use it as a day off later within the same year.

 

Yeah, I need to look into it someday cause we have Granted PTO, Accrued PTO, and Floating PTO and I honestly couldn't tell you much more than that. When I need time off, I use whichever is available, which probably isn't the smartest way to go about it. Cause I'm pretty sure granted and/or accrued rolls over up to 200 hours and floating doesn't.

 

yea our floating doesn't accrue, but our PTO and MTO can roll over 200hrs a year.

 

I also don't know when it expires/rolls over. If it's fiscal year or not. If it's fiscal then I'm probably gonna have to get to using my floating hours/putting those down as OT. I'll have to go pick one of the guys' who's been here longer's brain and take some notes

 

that's where I learned our ins and outs. one of our guys just talks about nothing buy pay/pto,mto etc. kinda annoying but I guess helpful too haha

 

Haha, gotta work the system just right to get the most out of it.

 

true story. and oh boy does he!

 

Don’t know how it works Stateside but I divert most of my OT into the pension plan. My employer matches it. Then I qualify for a greater tax deduction come tax time. When/if I get the refund, I pour that back in as well.

 

damn that'd be nice. like they match OT 100%? i'd be throwing all of my OT into that too. free money!

 

Adds up & starts compounding really fast. The plan is fully invested & was makin’ 7-11% yearly. There’s talk they might put a cap on it but for new hires only. Not us guys.

 

Man, that's awesome! congrats. all us new guys get screwed haha

 

I have no idea about that. I know they'll match up to 6% of our contribution into our retirement plan

 

Last place I was at had Superannuation. Talk about gettin screwed.

 

that's pretty much our 401k set up too.