“_____ that. You want on call service? Pay us the 100% bonus pool on call money.”
As long as I got paid, I was okay with unlimited OT. I didn’t even care that most of the time it was at 50% lower than the normal pay rate, as most professionals don’t get OT. But when I was there I was working 100% for the company. I had very little down time. If they made us work extra it was because somebody had done some p*ss poor management. As one employee said, “Failure to plan on their part is not an emergency on my part.”
Let’s just say that we were all employed there. Briefly. Turnover was horrendous because of the on call not on call on call policy. We were hired with an expectation of 40-50hr work week and were paid base accordingly. Then once hired we found out that management ‘expected’ us to work 70hr+. Marriages and famlies take a hit with those hours. And the non on call bonus pay didn’t make it worth it. At all.
It became a choice of marriage or job. I chose the marriage. Had I known I would get paid non-call pay and work 70+hrs a week I’d have taken the job just across the street (Avenue of the Americas) that paid REAL on call money for on call time. As it was, ‘we’ decided when I was looking for work that ‘he’ would be the 70+hr guy and I would be the ‘stay at home regular job’ wife. We once went 6 whole weeks w/o seeing each other aside from a sleeping body. Yes, I know people do that all the time. We were newlyweds and were NOT expecting that however.