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Did you work your butt off when you first started?
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<blockquote data-quote="hoser" data-source="post: 207932" data-attributes="member: 6357"><p>Another thing, especially for the rookies: find out what you're entitled to and take what you are entitled to. I see way too many new people that work their asses off and the supervisor butters them up into doing extra tasks that they don't have to do. They'll butter them up into staying late and taking OT. They'll get sucked into that, and then they are trapped. I was in that position, too.</p><p></p><p>There's one kid that works 6 days a week, the sunday preload right through he friday midnight sort. He's entitled to friday off, but he <em>asked</em> permission to get that friday night off. He was told no, I found out about this and flipped out to him; he should <em>tell </em>the supervisor that he's taking friday off. If I didn't tell him that, he would have expected to get only one night of rest. In a unionized shop, of all places! </p><p></p><p>There's a difference between working your butt off and standing up for your rights and getting used by the supervisors so they can meet their numbers. I'm not going to tell someone what to do (if they want OT, that's fine), but I just lose it when the new guys get socialized by the supervisors that they don't have rights (like the right to refuse work after 5 hours, supervisors can't do work, etc). </p><p></p><p>I worked my ass off and was really keen, and I got suckered in for about four months. At least I learned something about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hoser, post: 207932, member: 6357"] Another thing, especially for the rookies: find out what you're entitled to and take what you are entitled to. I see way too many new people that work their asses off and the supervisor butters them up into doing extra tasks that they don't have to do. They'll butter them up into staying late and taking OT. They'll get sucked into that, and then they are trapped. I was in that position, too. There's one kid that works 6 days a week, the sunday preload right through he friday midnight sort. He's entitled to friday off, but he [I]asked[/I] permission to get that friday night off. He was told no, I found out about this and flipped out to him; he should [I]tell [/I]the supervisor that he's taking friday off. If I didn't tell him that, he would have expected to get only one night of rest. In a unionized shop, of all places! There's a difference between working your butt off and standing up for your rights and getting used by the supervisors so they can meet their numbers. I'm not going to tell someone what to do (if they want OT, that's fine), but I just lose it when the new guys get socialized by the supervisors that they don't have rights (like the right to refuse work after 5 hours, supervisors can't do work, etc). I worked my ass off and was really keen, and I got suckered in for about four months. At least I learned something about it. [/QUOTE]
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