VA's October Chat thread!
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They told us all flat out one day no more overtime until we can figure out when we are getting a full workload back from one of our customers who had a plant move to Mexico so its been hard on me because I like making the extra money when I can. It is what it is though I'm just happy they haven't done any layoffs of folks in our department because I know I'm most likely the first one to go.
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Basicly thats what would of happened if we kept overtime, folks would of worked themselves clean out of a job. Thankfully management kept that from happening in a way that didn't set off a bunch of guys at the same time. Still stinks because I liked having that extra bit of cash at the end of the two week pay period.
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For us it helped alot. They did alot of cuts to stuff for a few years. One year we didnt even get raises. They still ended up laying off about 25 people campus wide this past summer.
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Yikes that's just wild, I'd rather see overtime get cut than to have budget cuts and layoffs anytime just so I wouldn't feel bad about someone losing a job, enjoy your dinner man I just finished a good one myself.
