Extended Overtime

[Benton]

(05-18-2016, 11:27 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Agreed, many employers are milking the salaried folk, to no end.  In some comp time situations, I've heard of folks retiring a year or more early, and getting a steady pay check for the remainder of their time.  State agencies, such as the one my wife works for, are trying to prevent that from happening, but they refuse to hire enough competent staff to spread the work load around.


It will likely be a bit of a shock for you to learn that much of the actual work in the US, is done by folks making less than 45K.  Do the research, read the job descriptions and responsibilities..

To the bold, my mom's place of employment had this weird 'buy back' for vacation time. You could take the PTO, or they would buy it from you at the end of the year. Or they would give you a percentage of it as comp time. She usually took off about one week of the year and worked there 25ish years. I don't remember the percent, but when she retired, she drew a full salary for about a year before retiring. My wife works at the same hospital now and somewhere along the way they changed that.

To the last part, agreed. About half the country makes less than $45k. And a lot of them are doing it working 60+ hours a week.