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Re: Pressure For Free Overtime

Subject: Re: Pressure For Free Overtime
From: "Bill Swallow" <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "Richard Lewis" <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:26:34 -0400

Sounds like if the reviewers for overtime aren't on the ball, then
overtime doesn't happen. You're contract... you're paid for your
time... all of it. If your lack of overtime makes the project miss a
deadline, it's not your fault... the powers that be didn't approve the
overtime.

You're not doing yourself any favors by allowing them to milk you for
overtime. They're paying you for your time. They owe you nothing but a
paycheck.

On 10/22/06, Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:

Question for all who do W2 contract work:

Do you ever feel pressured to work overtime for free (off the clock work)?

I felt such pressure at a certain company during a couple of contract assingments. In talking with a couple of other contractors at the company, they confided to me feeling this pressure also.

We experienced this in conjunction tight due dates. Technically, overtime was to be paid, but, it frequently needed to be approved and the approvers were, for a variety of (suspect) reasons, hard to reach (including, in my case, the sudden need by the approver to attend business meetings in Africa).

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References:
Re: Release notes and readme files: From: Jessica N Lange
Pressure For Free Overtime: From: Richard Lewis

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