riptides
Super Member
....The deadline to accept is at the close of business today... doesn't look like I will have answers before then...
Bird in hand and all that....
Have a backup/back-out plan formulating.
....The deadline to accept is at the close of business today... doesn't look like I will have answers before then...
Some anxiety could be of my own doing... I do take things very literally, especially when I "Voluntarily" agree to the writing job description with the little footnote on the last page stating I will be evaluated by this agreement and failure to perform is grounds for dismissal... words have meaning.
The men in the family tend to kick off at age 73 and on the job... it has been this way for my Grandfather, Dad, Uncles and Dad's cousin... Mom's side, the farming side never really retire either but it is different and the men go in their 90's fairly fit... Dad's side it's always leukemia... I seem to be losing a good friend every couple of months and many are in their 60's and 70's.
...One of my pet peeves is the word "resource." A resource is a chair, a building, a truck, a bulldozer, a computer, etc. I AM NOT A F^&*()ing resource. The reason the R word is used by managers is to ease their mental anguish when layoffs occur. It is much easier to layoff a resource instead of a person. It is like surplusing an old computer system. One can surplus a system, old furniture, or people. Tis all the same.The mindset of using the R word is telling. I started working in PERSONNEL not Human Resources where the word Human is often dropped.
Later,
Dan
I worked at a union plant that had a similar 4 hr. pay call in. The difference is if I got a call because of an alarm or anything else I could refuse and the next in line would take it, it just depended how you felt at the time. In my case if I came in and hit the reset button or closed the valve off and went home after 3 minutes, you would get paid 4 hrs. If the job was such that you needed to stay, you get paid as long as you stayed.Every job I have had, all hourly and some union, some non.....all had call-in pay minimums for skilled trade jobs. Which is what I am. And some states do have laws. But how the company treats call in pay is not always right, and its usually up to the employees to force their hand. After all, they dont want to pay you any more than necessary.
IE: they call you in and you go out of your way, cancel all your plans, and go bail their @$$es out. Takes you 30 minutes to do so. If they have a 4 hour call pay minimum.....they have the option to find an additional 3.5 hours of work for you to do. If YOU decide to leave after the 30 minutes, they consider it voluntary and think they are not obligated to pay you anything more than the 30 minutes.
Now I cannot speak for a hospital environment, but the solution to this in an industrial sector......the handful of skilled trade employees (maintenance / electricians), have to stand together. If you get called in, save their butts in 30 minutes, and they force you to decide to stay to get full 4 hours call in pay, or voluntarily leave and not get paid.......well.......next time you dont answer your phone. And with everyone in the department on the same page, they get the idea real quick when they have production lines sitting idle all night because they refused to do what was right.