You didn't do your overtime until the boss says so
I don't know about overtime rules in other places, most likely you might not even get overtime but is expected to work longer hours. For those places with a system of overtime in place, how strictly are they adhered to?
i've heard of one where you get overtime if you work more than 1 hour before or after the 9-5 hours. That is if you work from 8.01 to 5.59, you won't get any overtime, but if you work from 7.59 to 4.59 or 9.01 to 6.01, you'll get your overtime. Having a system in place is to prevent abuse of overtime rules, but some common sense should be at play.
It all comes down to whether the boss trusts that you have done your overtime as claimed. Either he has to be watching you, or someone else reporting to him must have been watching you. Or maybe mere peer pressure will force you to work overtime anyway. How can overtime be policed without such absurd ways of checking put in place? They might as well employ an overtime overseer squad with CCTV in place, sitting in a room, dunking their doughnuts and watching you in their panels after panels of monitor. They will need to strategically put some microphone in place as well, just in case you're just sitting there, chatting away. I guess u might ask, who oversees the overseers... see how absurd the system is?
Is there no way of empowering the staff in such a way that makes the overtime system obsolete?
i've heard of one where you get overtime if you work more than 1 hour before or after the 9-5 hours. That is if you work from 8.01 to 5.59, you won't get any overtime, but if you work from 7.59 to 4.59 or 9.01 to 6.01, you'll get your overtime. Having a system in place is to prevent abuse of overtime rules, but some common sense should be at play.
It all comes down to whether the boss trusts that you have done your overtime as claimed. Either he has to be watching you, or someone else reporting to him must have been watching you. Or maybe mere peer pressure will force you to work overtime anyway. How can overtime be policed without such absurd ways of checking put in place? They might as well employ an overtime overseer squad with CCTV in place, sitting in a room, dunking their doughnuts and watching you in their panels after panels of monitor. They will need to strategically put some microphone in place as well, just in case you're just sitting there, chatting away. I guess u might ask, who oversees the overseers... see how absurd the system is?
Is there no way of empowering the staff in such a way that makes the overtime system obsolete?
posted by Shang Lee at 11:30 am | Article's link
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I seriously think the Overtime system should be banished. Why people should be paid for the extra time spent if they couldn't finish their work in time? In my opinion, people who do overtime is because they couldn't finish their work in time caused by bad time management and low efficiency. We should not encourage this by paying them overtime.
not all jobs take longer than 8 hours because of employee inefficiency. i sell car parts, and if my boss needs me to do my job longer than my shift is normally, and i agree to coming in, or staying late, i am to be rewarded for my extra efforts. it's not that i was an oaf, and couldn't finish the tasks on time, it's just that there are customers to be helped, and this must benefit the store enough to justify paying me a little more for my trouble. not everyone does piecework.
i think it depends on what kind of work do you do.. for eg: a doctor's workload is unpredictable... you may come in the morning for ward rounds and all your patients appears clinically stable.. but it can change within a split second.. it's not unusual to be called to review a patient with chest pain at 5 mins to 5o'clock.. when that instance happens, do u say' oh it's almost 5 o'clock i should be going home... or would you go straight to review the patient... naturally all doctors will review their patients... therefore one cannot use the same definition for all scenarios as different circumstances requires different solutions...
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