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I tried to log onto my employer's website to log my hours, but of course my login info didn't work and it'll be too late tomorrow morning. It's not the first time I've had problems with that site, either... I miss oldtimey punchclocks so much.

I hate punch clocks period. :/ When I started where I work now, we didn't have them, it was just understood that you're an adult, if you're supposed to be here between x hour and y hour, then you're there.

Then some idiots ruined it for the rest of us and now we have to punch in and out every day. :|

What was your time report system before that?

Online logs are more trouble than they're worth, or at least the one I use is. Give me swipe cards any day.

Just the schedule. If the schedule said you were 8-4 then you got paid for 8-4. We only had about 50 people at that point and it's a hospital department so if someone's absent it's noticed right away so it was impossible to get paid for a shift you didn't work.

I had a job that would punch you in and out for toilet breaks. Literally inly paid for time on the computer.

Yeah, we have a punch clock at work. I quite like it. Logging onto a website seems like more hassle than it is worth.

It really is. I'd prefer having something that automaticly forwards the time you punch you code/swipe the card.

We have to log onto a website, but it's not about when you started and stopped work but how long you spent on what project so we could bill the right client for our time. Before the website, we had to fill out timesheets that accomplished the same thing and weren't really any less annoying. There's no way around that kind of thing, though, if you operate the kind of business where you need to bill people's time to different projects.

Ours isn't bad, though teh the system can be...stupid sometimes and we have to do the old fashioned paper "net-time" sheet instead.

You want to know why no one is applying to your job?

9$/hr for thirty body-taxing tasks and no insurance. America is really hellbent on going back to the past when comics were 20c and you could pay for college with a part time job making chump change.

That would be good if it were possible

Yeah we need to stop living in the fantasy world where people don't use these jobs as their full-time employment.

Except comics will never descend from 5.99 now. Jesus fuck, people stop paying six bucks for event comics!

I'm paying $3.99, mostly.

This. i have yet to see a comic that's more than $4 unless it's a trade paperback/hardback compilation or special 48 page issue.

I average 60 hours a week on a low-salary exempt job. I'm not an entry level employee per se, but they pay me basically entry level (it's a non-profit). I SHOULD have been eligible for a big raise on December 1st when the federal minimum wage for exempt employees was going to rise, but Republicans, the biggest assholes on the planet, blocked it. I literally live paycheck to paycheck and I don't know what to do. I'm to the point where I want to demand a raise at my end-of-year review but I'm still a relatively new employee and I don't know how demanding I can be. I should have negotiated a higher salary when I started, but I was so desperate for the job that I was afraid I'd lose the offer if I did. Ugh.

I wish a lot of the entitled older people at work would realize how good they have it. Working for a company with full health-dental-vision, fully vested retirement plans, three weeks of vacation time, where the CEO and partners' first method of cutting costs when business slows is cutting their own salaries in half and saving the useful entry level people by cleaning out redundant upper management is living the f'n dream in America.

But no, sitting at your comfortable white collar job for 8 hours a day with all us "entitled" millennials is just too hard.

In addition, dumb things they've bitched and moaned about: "low quality" coffee, no free lunches, only the people who use phones for work getting work phones, not getting the corner office they wanted, not getting the office furniture they wanted, staying a few hours late once every couple of months, the company no longer partially funding a shuttle for them to get to work

I'm like, you're literally complaining about not getting a free lunch and you call the young people entitled? It's amazing.

This is why a mandatory retirement age is essential to a healthy developed world economy. Yes, we appreciate older people still have a lot to give and they shouldn't retre due to being "too old" or anything like that. However, unless they do retire in a timely fashion it gums up advancement for everyone below them and reduces wages and working conditions. Just fucking retire already.

AYRT

By older, I meant this group of "old guard" are around 50. Gen X, not Boomers. Mandatory retirement at 65 might solve some problems, but these people would still be around.

But what are these retired folks supposed to live on? Retire at age 50, the average even white-collar worker isn't going to have enough money when their lifespan could literally be another 50 years. When are elderly are living easily into their 80s, their funds run out. We can talk about retiring people earlier when we can actually take care of our existing elderly. Not everyone who works until 70 is just sticking around to make millennials miserable.

that's a nice idea and all, but with so many seniors struggling just to get by, it's just not feasible. many of them would retire if they could, but they simply can't afford to. there would have to be a lot of other changes implemented to assure that all senior citizens could live comfortably after retirement before we start instituting mandatory retirement ages.

Re: Thread for inlog fuckery and other workrelated complaints.

otakugal15 - 2016-12-12 21:07 (UTC) - Expand

On the weekend I manage a small team of 2 to 5 other people, and I swear sometimes I feel like Coach Bombay in The Mighty Ducks when he's all "I say keep your heads up, you put your heads down! I say hustle, YOU WENT SLOWER! Why the hell won't you just listen to me?"

I don't say anything like that, because I don't think I'm as big a jerk, but I'm really tired of giving simple instructions and having them not be followed. And this was after talking to my supervisor who says I can sometimes be too complex and slow things down. Well, apparently when I try to simplify, it all goes on one ear and out the other.

I feel like such a shitty manager.

My sympathies, anon. Maybe write to Ask a Manager for advice? She's very good. Otherwise it might be a case where you need to break instructions down into simple steps and check up on people or touch base with people throughout the day to see how they're progressing, or not progressing as the case may be. In that case, you can get people back on track.

The biggest job that my company does is coming to a (temporary) end this mid-December. It picks up again in the first week or so of February. And my supervisor, who is awesome, is on the verge of quitting because the 'big boss' (who is only the bb of our branch) is a petty bitch who is doing her damnedest to make him want to quit because she doesn't like that he's 'taken ownership' of the job.

Which is what the *actual* 'big boss' (and owner) of the company and she decided the supervisors all had to do. They're also fucking with his schedule so he's not working half the days he was, and putting the utter idiot second supervisor in charge on more days. Where he gets flustered, bluffs with bs when he doesn't know the answer (often), brags about all the crap he's done in the past and is inappropriate with (often underage) employees.

There is shit-all do do in this town, and this is one of the very few good-paying/good hours job I can actually get. I'm so damn frustrated and i hate working with idiots, but if my awesome super quits, this job is going to suck goat piss. ARGH.

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