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I'm giving a seminar in half an hour to my fellow PhD students. Not how I would generally choose to spend my bank holiday.
Stupid work ethic. I think I'll pay the organisers back by making sure I give a really boring seminar. Maybe I'll overrun by half an hour or so just for good measure.
Veho Nex
05-05-2008, 14:23
Hate to sound niave but whats a bank holiday?
KukriKhan
05-05-2008, 14:24
Be sure to sprinkle the phrase:
"At the end of the day..."
liberally throughout your presentation. It'll set everyone's teeth on edge.
edit: probably too late; he wrote: 'half an hour', over an hour ago. The audience should be sound asleep by now
Bank holiday = gratuitous day-off in UK.
Samurai Waki
05-05-2008, 22:00
*plays the worlds smallest violin*
Rhyfelwyr
05-05-2008, 22:46
Working on a bank holiday is just wrong.
I've got summer holidays in two week though!
After exams unfortunately...
Papewaio
05-05-2008, 22:46
Holiday = time and a half.
pevergreen
05-06-2008, 00:40
Labour day yesterday :grin2:
SwordsMaster
05-06-2008, 01:12
Holiday = time and a half.
Really?
Over here time and a half is overtime, saturdays is 2x, and sundays and national holidays is 3x. God bless sunday night shifts: 3x the money and monday off!
Really?
Over here time and a half is overtime, saturdays is 2x, and sundays and national holidays is 3x. God bless sunday night shifts: 3x the money and monday off!
3x? I'd work 12 hours on Sunday.
Papewaio
05-06-2008, 23:08
Really?
Over here time and a half is overtime, saturdays is 2x, and sundays and national holidays is 3x. God bless sunday night shifts: 3x the money and monday off!
Not in IT as that is kind of 'expected' and the contracts are written up as such. Mind you when I'm on call I get an extra days pay for the week just for holding onto my phone and not passing out when answering it.
Not in IT as that is kind of 'expected' and the contracts are written up as such. Mind you when I'm on call I get an extra days pay for the week just for holding onto my phone and not passing out when answering it. I guess Pape is somewhat right.
It is all negotiation, negotiation, negotiation.
My first IT job didn't pay extra for overtime... well it didn't pay anything as I got a fixed mothly salary.
Big mistake!!
In my next and current job I made sure to put into the contract a clause about overtime.
Basically it states that voluntary overtime only pays the equivalent of an hourly wage and that you can put them into a time bank for later extraction into payment or time off.
Required overtime pays according to state regulation (+50% from 16:00 to 20:00 on weekdays, +50% all hours saturdays up to 20:00, +100% after 20:00 on weekdays and saturdays and +100% on sundays and holydays. An extra hour mealbreak at 17:00 is paid for by the company).
Oh... and we work only 37,5 hours a week, overtime for every hour above this.
Alas, I am a student, and thus not only do I not get paid extra for working holidays, I don't get paid at all. All I got was the rather dubious satisfaction of being able to say smugly to my colleages, "Enjoy your long weekend? Personally, I got tons done" on Tuesday morning.
For those who are interested, the seminar didn't go too well, only four people turned up. I suppose I learned my lesson about agreeing to work on a bank holiday.:furious3:
KukriKhan
05-07-2008, 14:22
I guess Pape is somewhat right.
It is all negotiation, negotiation, negotiation.
My first IT job didn't pay extra for overtime... well it didn't pay anything as I got a fixed mothly salary.
Big mistake!!
In my next and current job I made sure to put into the contract a clause about overtime.
Basically it states that voluntary overtime only pays the equivalent of an hourly wage and that you can put them into a time bank for later extraction into payment or time off.
Required overtime pays according to state regulation (+50% from 16:00 to 20:00 on weekdays, +50% all hours saturdays up to 20:00, +100% after 20:00 on weekdays and saturdays and +100% on sundays and holydays. An extra hour mealbreak at 17:00 is paid for by the company).
Oh... and we work only 37,5 hours a week, overtime for every hour above this.
That's a pretty complicated formula, but I agree, it's all about negotiation.
Here (US, California, union job) the 'standard' is: Five 8-hour days:
Any hours over 8 per day = +50%,
and any days over 5 per week = +50%.
Night shift = +10% for all hours.
Working any of the 10 federal holidays = +50% all day.
Non-union jobs often pay no overtime at all.
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