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My boss started sending me IMs to my private account. How should I deal with this?
I few days ago my boss started to send me instant messages to my private phone on my private account. He sends me error-messages and screenshots from customers.
I fully understand this may be his ...
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Pay hourly workers on a project or piece rate basis [closed]
We have a few opportunities at our company that are a bit different than our normal work. We have many hourly employees that work on standard production -- 40 hours plus overtime for any work over ...
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Changing the culture of overtime to efficiency
I work at a very young start-up company. We have had turn-over rates (mass resignation of staff, thrice) in the past but changes in the system have led to a more a stable employee retention and better ...
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Politely and professionally declining overtime
I've been working as a contractor at a large company for three months. I'm the most seasoned developer in a small team, and so far it's been a good relationship.
However, as of a couple of weeks ago, ...
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Not getting paid for over time as contractor
I've recently worked on a task that took several weeks to complete. It was a very intensive work, and on several nights and mornings I had to do over time.
When I started working here, such thing ...
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Asked to work on weekend vs overtime
This just happened to where I work and I need some feedback, before I discuss it.
The project I currently work on is slipping and members of the team were requested to work overtime (if they want and ...
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Saying no to project managers?
There are 5 project managers who keep coming to me and insisting that their requests are urgent and I find myself switching between 4 different projects, while I am supposed to work on only 1 project ...
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Working late without overtime pay, good idea or not? [closed]
So I've read through How do I maintain a work-life balance when company culture tends towards frequent overtime? and that is very similar situation that I found myself in.
There's no explicit ...
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How do I maintain a work-life balance when company culture tends towards frequent overtime?
I usually don't mind working overtime (no additional compensation) because I enjoy my work.
However, it does eventually grate on me. I've enjoyed a minimum of overtime in the past few months but know ...
