Rhody31
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Reading some of these posts, I guess my co-worker I are lucky. We're paid hourly, but we clock in a minimum 45 hours a week and the publishers has no problem playing us the OT. That might have something to do with the fact that our SE quit two years ago and they haven't replaced him, but whatever.
Since our hours are examined more than most - and we're the only two people at our company allowed to do OT - I've made it a point to make sure my hours are honest. If I screw around on SJ, I'm off the clock. If I'm checking baseball scores because I'm tired of going through photos, I'm off the clock.
The only thing that it's done is made me more angry at co-workers, who sit around and look at YouTube videos and count it as work, or our ads and business people taking smoke breaks every hour and counting it as work.
If you're complaining about work hours, make sure they're honest hours. While 5 minutes here or there doesn't seem like much, if you check SJ for five minutes once an hour in a normal work day, that's 40 minutes you stole from the company.
Since our hours are examined more than most - and we're the only two people at our company allowed to do OT - I've made it a point to make sure my hours are honest. If I screw around on SJ, I'm off the clock. If I'm checking baseball scores because I'm tired of going through photos, I'm off the clock.
The only thing that it's done is made me more angry at co-workers, who sit around and look at YouTube videos and count it as work, or our ads and business people taking smoke breaks every hour and counting it as work.
If you're complaining about work hours, make sure they're honest hours. While 5 minutes here or there doesn't seem like much, if you check SJ for five minutes once an hour in a normal work day, that's 40 minutes you stole from the company.