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Ok, I know I don't post up here often, but I need to dump this somewhere.
So my boyfriend and I (yes I'm a girl, no you can't have nude pics) work at the same place, a little steel fab shop that does structural steel. I work in the office making all the CAD drawings for the shop. He is the head of maintenance. The company is going thru a rough patch, due to the economy and what not, and the only way we've been able to get work is to get it done before anyone else can. So a few guys have been working on the weekends, after putting in 40 hours during the week. Well the owner has gotten into the habit of not paying anyone overtime. His solution is to give you "comp time" which means if you worked 45 hours one week, you only work 35 the next week, saving him from having to pay overtime. Well most employees have gotten wise to this and won't work anything over 40hrs a week. But on Friday we got some equipment bases from a local paper mill that they needed back on Monday. So a few guys from the shop had to work this past weekend, my bf being one of them. They all made sure before they agreed to work that they would get overtime and double time if they worked on sunday, and they were told the mill was paying for the labor and they would get paid what they should. So my bf worked 18 hrs this weekend, and today the owner comes up and tells him and the other guys that worked over the weekend that the company could afford to pay them over/double time and they would get comp time. Its a load of bullshit, and in WI its illegal to not pay overtime to anyone who works over 40 hours a week. Not to mention my situation. I started out working part time here while I was going to school, then when i graduated in May, I went to full-time, but i was still getting paid part-time wages and not getting any benefits. I still dont get paid what i should and i'm still not offered health insurance, paid holidays or paid vacation. We'd both quit, if we could find other jobs, but those are very few and far between, especially up here in rural WI.
Okay, end rant.
So my boyfriend and I (yes I'm a girl, no you can't have nude pics) work at the same place, a little steel fab shop that does structural steel. I work in the office making all the CAD drawings for the shop. He is the head of maintenance. The company is going thru a rough patch, due to the economy and what not, and the only way we've been able to get work is to get it done before anyone else can. So a few guys have been working on the weekends, after putting in 40 hours during the week. Well the owner has gotten into the habit of not paying anyone overtime. His solution is to give you "comp time" which means if you worked 45 hours one week, you only work 35 the next week, saving him from having to pay overtime. Well most employees have gotten wise to this and won't work anything over 40hrs a week. But on Friday we got some equipment bases from a local paper mill that they needed back on Monday. So a few guys from the shop had to work this past weekend, my bf being one of them. They all made sure before they agreed to work that they would get overtime and double time if they worked on sunday, and they were told the mill was paying for the labor and they would get paid what they should. So my bf worked 18 hrs this weekend, and today the owner comes up and tells him and the other guys that worked over the weekend that the company could afford to pay them over/double time and they would get comp time. Its a load of bullshit, and in WI its illegal to not pay overtime to anyone who works over 40 hours a week. Not to mention my situation. I started out working part time here while I was going to school, then when i graduated in May, I went to full-time, but i was still getting paid part-time wages and not getting any benefits. I still dont get paid what i should and i'm still not offered health insurance, paid holidays or paid vacation. We'd both quit, if we could find other jobs, but those are very few and far between, especially up here in rural WI.
Okay, end rant.