Monday, March 19, 2007
World Gone Mad
Just what the heck happened today? My platesetter can't image this file correctly with absolutely no reason for it not to (works once, doesn't work the next moment). And it's weird stuff on the plate that's not in the file. And then the other client has decided to ignore all my warnings and, "well, try and make it work" (I got news for ya, it won't). Then a third is buring me with requests. Ugh! Massive overtime here I come, again.
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I hope massive overtime means massive overtime pay, yo.
Oh, yes. If I didn't get paid OT, I wouldn't be here. I did the salary gig for a decade. Not doing that again (unless the salary starts very high).
Last year (because you know I like math), one-third of my day job pay was overtime. But I have to say, 15 hours hurts these days (it's also the 10 hours of commute a week and the other jobs - councilman and freelance design). And on top of that trying to write (and read). I'm not as young as I used to be.
BTW, I'm still at work (normal work day, 7am to 3pm, no lunch break).
OT rocks. Here in Massachusetts it's required for hourly-wages on Sunday, regardless of how many hours you work during the week.
Guess which night I like working best? ;-)
I've always been self-employed, so I've never received a second of overtime pay in my life.
Of course, when you're doing you own thing, it's not so hard to work fifteen or twenty hour days, though sometimes, I'd work through the night and have to drive home, battling the morning rush hour traffic. I used to know I'd been working too long by about the third or fourth NPR morning newsfeed repeat.
Todd, that's a cool law. I'm now a union member, so Sunday's for me is double-time. Saturday is straight OT the whole time. And OT starts at 8 hours a day. I've worked places that have it start after 45 hours per week (40 hour week plus 5 hours of lunch, it was strange). The union isn't all the strong, BTW. Raises for the past 2 years have been 2% (less that the increased cost of gas), and the negotiations, thpppp! But I do get paid more that if I was back in studio.
LBB, yep, one of the reasons I just freelance for three clients (I let all my other clients go).
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