Working for the Weekend?

[thefish8]

Does anyone get compensated in some fashion, either extra salary or extra time off, for putting extra hours in on the weekend? This is for a IT company, I just started my career and am already working 40+.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: thefish8
Does anyone get compensated in some fashion, either extra salary or extra time off, for putting extra hours in on the weekend? This is for a IT company, I just started my career and am already working 40+.

welcome to the real world

 

[thefish8]

so does that mean no?

 

[Rickten]

be happy you have a job.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: thefish8
so does that mean no?

I have a friend who makes $37k a yr..she averages 56 hrs a week..you do the math..when you are on salary you can/will be taken advantage of

 

[Atomicus]

Look for a job with an hourly wage :roll:

 

[RGN]

I work in IT, get paid hourly. Overtime after 8 hours. OT==time + 1/2. Or I can build comp time and the same time + 1/2 rate and take time off whenever. I work about 50 hours/week.

 

[SpunkyJones]

Hourly = OT
Salary = SOL

 

[FoBoT]

i get higher raises and bonuses than my peer's

or at least i think i do, how would i really know?

i more or less do it voluntarily. my boss doesn't ask me to, but i do it to make our deliverables better. when our group does well, our boss does well and he takes care of us.

at this time, it seems like the right thing to do ( i am at work typing this and have already put in ~55 hours this week)

but our work is seasonal, so i only really have to do this a few months out of the year.

(my title is network engineer, but i really do all different kinds of stuff, build servers, workstations, develop admistrative scripts, architect deployments of projects and stuff, whatever needs to be done)

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: SpunkyJones
Hourly = OT
Salary = SOL

ayup.

sometimes I miss getting paid hourly... but then again, it's also nice to not have to live by the clock -- if I come in a few minutes late, take a long lunch, and leave a little early, no one is up my butt about it, as long as I have all my work under control.