What Are You Doing Right Now

Dashrender

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Waiting for "rise of skywalker" to start

first time?

EddieJennings

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Waiting for "rise of skywalker" to start

Enjoy I was pleased with it.

scottalanmiller

Having my first Christmas Eve coffee in Houston. Got in around midnight last night.

scottalanmiller

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

stuck thsis year working the Christmas holiday period. At least its slow so cleaning out our storeroom of ancient "artifacts"

We have 2.5 hours to go before sending everyone home.

coliver

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

stuck thsis year working the Christmas holiday period. At least its slow so cleaning out our storeroom of ancient "artifacts"

We have 2.5 hours to go before sending everyone home.

I get done in 1.5 hours. Then going with my father for the traditional X-Mas Eve shopping trip.

WrCombs

We're either closing at 12N CST or 3CST
I'm trying to convince everyone we need to just leave at 10:00 but no one is biting.

scottalanmiller

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

We're either closing at 12N CST or 3CST
I'm trying to convince everyone we need to just leave at 10:00 but no one is biting.

Why only one or the other but not somewhere in between?

scottalanmiller

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

stuck thsis year working the Christmas holiday period. At least its slow so cleaning out our storeroom of ancient "artifacts"

We have 2.5 hours to go before sending everyone home.

I get done in 1.5 hours. Then going with my father for the traditional X-Mas Eve shopping trip.

We've have to slog through till noon out west as vet clinics are open.

coliver

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

stuck thsis year working the Christmas holiday period. At least its slow so cleaning out our storeroom of ancient "artifacts"

We have 2.5 hours to go before sending everyone home.

I get done in 1.5 hours. Then going with my father for the traditional X-Mas Eve shopping trip.

We've have to slog through till noon out west as vet clinics are open.

That makes sense.

WrCombs

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

We're either closing at 12N CST or 3CST
I'm trying to convince everyone we need to just leave at 10:00 but no one is biting.

Why only one or the other but not somewhere in between?

Because Our boss is in Des Moines IA, and we are following the other department.
So what ever they decide and those are the times we talked about.

Dashrender

We close to patients at 1 PM, but to leave early, staff have to take vacation or unpaid time off.

VoIP_n00b

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

We close to patients at 1 PM, but to leave early, staff have to take vacation or unpaid time off.

Same here, it's dumb.

Dashrender

@VoIP_n00b said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

We close to patients at 1 PM, but to leave early, staff have to take vacation or unpaid time off.

Same here, it's dumb.

Not really - management I see has three choices, perhaps four.

close at 1 PM - pay only for worked hours, employees can stay and work a full typical day
close at 1 PM - allow people to use vacation time to keep paycheck at typical work hours
Close at 1 PM - send everyone home, pay everyone 4 hours out of the company pocket
close at 1 PM - send everyone home, people only paid for punched in time.

80% of our staff is hourly. If they were more salary, this wouldn't be an issue, just close at 1 PM and not worry about it. But hourly really changes things.

I overheard part of a conversation about this - there was discussion on just closing and sending everyone home.. but the idea of paying that much free time (option 3) was considered undesirable I'm assuming, since that is not the route they went. Some would say they had compassion for those to need the money, so they allow people to stay and get paid the whole day - of course, even though they are assigned things to do - we all know it won't happen.

VoIP_n00b

@Dashrender 3 is the right answer.

Dashrender

@VoIP_n00b said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender 3 is the right answer.

huh, this ended up being a lot lower than I expected.

72 people * $15/hr average * 4 hours = $4,320 OK yeah, this it likely something my company could swallow without an issue.

RojoLoco

Wearing shorts on Xmas Eve... 70F today, beautiful outside.

scottalanmiller

72F here in Houston. But no wifi, thanks to Comcast.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@VoIP_n00b said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

We close to patients at 1 PM, but to leave early, staff have to take vacation or unpaid time off.

Same here, it's dumb.

Not really - management I see has three choices, perhaps four.

close at 1 PM - pay only for worked hours, employees can stay and work a full typical day

close at 1 PM - allow people to use vacation time to keep paycheck at typical work hours

Close at 1 PM - send everyone home, pay everyone 4 hours out of the company pocket

close at 1 PM - send everyone home, people only paid for punched in time.

80% of our staff is hourly. If they were more salary, this wouldn't be an issue, just close at 1 PM and not worry about it. But hourly really changes things.

I overheard part of a conversation about this - there was discussion on just closing and sending everyone home.. but the idea of paying that much free time (option 3) was considered undesirable I'm assuming, since that is not the route they went. Some would say they had compassion for those to need the money, so they allow people to stay and get paid the whole day - of course, even though they are assigned things to do - we all know it won't happen.

So just keeping them in their seats to waste money to flaunt how little they care?

scottalanmiller

If Comcast wasnt down in Houston, we would have sent everyone home way earlier. And we never stop paying just because we send people home.

nadnerB

Merry Christmas
Hope you all stay safe and have a good one.