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Labor Day and OOW, but couldn't have it off? - Charsy

Posted: Sep 01, 2014

I knew it....I am not a moron.....hiring all these MTs for these accounts, running OOW on a regular work day.....did they think we would all stay busy on Labor Day? I am disgusted and am taking the day off. I ask about being off.......NO. Don't you think that managers could make schedules knowing the work is slow? Let people off if they ask, making sure to have at least 2 MTs on in case some work comes in? That is too easy a fix....let everyone just be OOW and don't answer email.

OOW - metoo

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I'm in the same boat. OOW on regular days and 4 lousy jobs since 6 a.m. today. Crappy scheduling and overhiring. I haven't had 1 email all day from my TSM.

oow me too - rip

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Same here. I got one day's line total in two days. Now trying to catch up on lines

OOW on holiday - nn

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Of course they don't answer. The majority of management have to have their holidays off!!! I get so sick and tired of hearing about the vacations they took, showing pictures of their swimming pools and family functions they are always able to attend. Didn't mind so much when we used to make a good living. Felt like some of the sacrifices were worth while. But now I just resent them flaunting this in our faces as we scratch for peanuts.

Needless to say, I have been OOW most of today also. Grrr.

Punch out and go about your merry way; still early - enough to enjoy yourself.

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The real problem is we should - be paid

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It used to be they would pay you for at least some hours (maybe 4?), and the lines you actually got would be weighted extra. Now, if you are OOW you get the rest of the day off! Great, until you realize it is without pay. Who can afford that? And why should they not be made to pay at least something?

Whenever I get OOW now I am glad for the "day off" technically speaking, and end up doing my second job or other stuff, but invariably it is tough to make up the hours during the rest of the week, so I end up slightly short, which always seems to happen when I am (infrequently) eligible for the production bonus, of course.

I have stopped using my PTO to pad the pay though, since I realized I was using all my PTO up that way and since it is so precious, you really don't want to do that, small amount that it is.

It's almost like they sit around thinking up strategies to deprive us of pay, but that would be paranoid, right?

No, they DO think up ways to cut our pay!!!! - SM

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What do you think this maximum capacitation thing (or whatever it's called) was all about? They hate us. The more they take from us, the more they can reward themselves. That's the way they play the Nuance Greed Game. Just wait for the October Surprise...

The real problem.. - Sammie

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You are so right. Any time my husband was scheduled to work especially on a holiday and wasn't needed, he was paid 4 hours. We are available, scheduled to work and are OOW the entire day. We should be paid at least 4 hours. Of course it won't happen. I am over 11 hours short so far this week:(

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