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Groly
Nov 4, 2009
To show you're not in management's pocket: If you have 'cost-plus' projects where every hour each employee works is billed to the client with margin on top, tell your coworkers that working unpaid overtime is literally stealing from the company. (Because now the work has been performed but there were no hours and hence no margin billed to the client.) Furthermore, explain that unpaid overtime may not be reportable in the tracking software and would therefore screw up future projects' performance factors. Finally, remind your audience about the Walmart manager who sued and won for not being promoted when her peers were putting in unpaid overtime and she wasn't.

Naturally, lump-sum jobs and bid writing are where employees are welcome to donate discretionary effort to the company's profits. But the company can't reward those people at the expense of employees who don't work unpaid overtime, or else they may get a suit like Walmart did.

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