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Anybody know about the policy for Technical Downtime? - ds


Posted: Nov 12, 2014

I was trying to find out what our policy is on technical downtime.  I was under the impression we got paid for this at our benefit rate.  Anybody know for sure or how to find this on Inner Circle? 

Tech downtime - TJ

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I am under the assumption that we get paid for downtime with our PTO time. I usually just type the times I clock in/out and put in the Ticket # they gave us. I never was told differently. Wish I could be more helpful.

Tech downtime - OldMT

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I believe TJ is right. We get paid our PTO hourly rate for downtime. Clock in and out for the time the system is down, put in the description that the system was down with the Remedy ticket number, then change the "alert manager" button from no to yes. Hope this helps!

Thank you! - ds

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That's what I thought! Thank you!


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