• @tsonfeir@lemm.ee
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    17 months ago

    They got strict about the amount of overtime you could get and how the punch clock worked. It was a huge bug in the system and it cost them millions.

    I mean, it’s their own damn fault for not fixing the system, but when you take away the free cash, don’t be surprised if they leave.

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        17 months ago

        Of for sure. But if you could legally double your salary with a few planned decisions like clocking in a little early and a little late…. Wouldn’t you?

        Regardless of her own personal choices, The management of the hospital really should have fixed their time clock and fixed their overtime policy long before anybody figured out how to abuse it. But, those policies were left over from Covid when they were just happy to have staffing.

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            17 months ago

            It’s legal. Technically they threw out all policy about overtime during Covid. She didn’t steal anything. She just made sure to have over a certain number of house of overtime so that her final shift would push over a certain amount and she’d get double time for the entire shift and then she would stay over like 3 hours. She’d do this every week. And with the overtime rates at the time she was getting like $200/hr.

            It kinda sucks for the other nurses though, because she put that floor wwaaaayyy over budget and they (the floor manager) got hit for it, which trickles down.

            Crappy situation.

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                17 months ago

                You could say that, yes.

                Quite a number of the nurses were taking advantage of the situation, but none of them like that. No one really cares if you grab an hour or two extra a week. Even if all you do is run some meds, they have the money.