Re: Longest Day Ever Worked ?

Posted by CLW on November 30, 2006 at 11:09:26 from (68.90.203.224):

In Reply to: Longest Day Ever Worked ? posted by Billy NY on November 30, 2006 at 06:43:27:

The longest day wasn't me but my wife. About 12 years ago she worked for a company that had about 200 people in this area plus more in Fla. She had learned the computer network from reading it out of a book (on her own time) becouse they were to cheap to hire someone better or send someone to school to learn.
She went to work at 8AM on a Thursday morning. The system went down around 10 that morning. There were 3 of them who worked from 8AM Thursday to 11AM Sunday (76 hrs.) to get it back up. No sleep. She got home about 11:30 Sun. morning, took a bath and got ready to go to bed when the phone rang and her boss (who had not stayed with them) said to come back becouse there was more problems. She, mad as a wet hen now, got dressed and headed back (30 min. drive). She had been gone about 5 min. when a co-worker called (mad as the same hen) and said they could take care of the problem, and that there boss was a jerk, and for her to stay home and sleep. Well no cell phones in this house back then so I could not contact her. She had to drive down to find things working then drive back home so add about 1 1/2 hr. to the 76 plus 1/2 going to work on that Thursday morning. That adds up to 78 hours. She did not get one extra penny for the extra work.
I may as well get this off my chest while I am at it. This company made her wear a pager 24/7. I don't know how many times we were at one of our kids games when it went off. She would have to find a phone to call in. Well she found out after about a two years that if someone with that company is required to carry a pager they are to be paid $100.00 per week. She went to HR and ask about it. So what they did was take her pager on Fri. at 5PM and give it back Mon. at 8AM. Very few people worked weekends so hardly any calls. Never was paid a cent or a thank you.

Sorry for this rant but I have waited 12 years to vent this.

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