Operational needs
Virescit Vulnere Virtus
LWOP doesn't exist at my station. Never has.
Fun month Febuary
- Thread starter Purplepackage
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59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
It existed here for a good while and there were 2 or 3 couriers who volunteered for it every week. Now there are issues with overstaffing and LWOP's are never offered. If you want one and fill out a day off request, you'll usually get it but the practice of asking for volunteers has ceased.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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LWOP----Leave Without Pay?
Operational needs
Virescit Vulnere Virtus
Not so easy to get a day off in my station. We are allowed 15 FT couriers per day in a station of over 200 people.
Operational needs
Virescit Vulnere Virtus
Yes.
Slick silver
Well-Known Member
It's sucks sometimes right now when you go in for maybe 3 hrs since I'm a swing. Even though I get the minimum, it would be nice to just take a random Monday or Tuesday, I have a side business now and sometimes it's hard to accomplish things for it and need a full day to get all the sales I did out.
Purplepackage
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200 people? lol My station has 50 employees total, and thats everyone including csa's and handlers
SmithBarney
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Because it is scheduled day off, if you work on your normal day off it's 1.5x
Fred's Myth
Nonhyphenated American
In a perfect world, maybe, but at Fedex Express, Sunday is the first day of the week and is paid straight time. You won't get paid overtime until you work your sixth day of the week. If you don't believe me, experience it for yourself the hard way like I did.
SmithBarney
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Then someone is messing with your time card, just like if you are:
tu-sat if you come in for 8hrs on monday it is OT
or if you are a 4x10 with wednesday off, and work wed, wed is OT
You get the picture.
Fred's Myth
Nonhyphenated American
Worked a Sunday of a week that I had a personal day scheduled off. It was all straight time except over 8. Screw me once, because it ain't gonna happen twice!
SmithBarney
Well-Known Member
Yes a personal day apparently negates OT... stupid rule.
but a Floater wouldn't have negated that OT...
Purplepackage
Well-Known Member
Personal day negates overtime
Operational needs
Virescit Vulnere Virtus
Yep. A personal day, being late or calling out sick all cancel OT for that extra day. You have to be careful of that.
Fred's Myth
Nonhyphenated American
You missed the point. The personal was my SIXTH day. The other 5 days, including Sunday, were paid as straight time. I only got OT for over 8. Was told Sunday was the first day of the workweek, therefore straight time. Like I said, last time that would ever happen.
Operational needs
Virescit Vulnere Virtus
It doesn't matter. You had a personal day. All six days will be straight time with over 8 OT.
59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
For the purposes of OT calculation for work performed on a scheduled day off, a personal day counts the same as an LWOP day. No different than a swing working a Tues-Sat schedule when he normally works Mon-Fri. He ain't getting OT for that Sat.
SmithBarney
Well-Known Member
I didn't miss the point, and I think it's been covered, but whenever you take a personal, you hose yourself for OT(on worked days off) during that week.. Now if you used a Floater, you would have made the OT, incredibly ridiculous, but for whatever reason that's the way they do it.
59 Dano
I just want to make friends!
It's done that way because personals can be used to cover emergencies. It's not used in OT calculation because --and you may find this as hard to believe as I do!-- some employees would abuse it. For example, a M-friend employee signs up for a Saturday, then calls in with an "emergency" (WINK WINK) on the Monday of that same week. So he'd end up with at 3 day weekend, a paid Monday off, and an OT Saturday at the end of the week.
Hard to believe anyone would do such a thing, ain't it?
