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Originally Posted by IROC
To answer your questions, this was less than a year ago and in Huntsville.
Yeah, I remember this stink, but it didn't affect me at the time and didn't affect me afterwards. We were explicitly told not to record any hours over 8 worked. Granted, I was probably McDonnell Douglas at the time. Heritage Boeing seemed to have different time charging practices. I actually seem to remember heritage Boeing people talking about something called "comp time" or "green time". No such thing with McDonnell Douglas (this was all Boeing-Huntsville, BTW). Heck, McDonnell Douglas forced us to work 44 hours a week years ago (but paid us for 40) so that they could effectively charge the government lower labor rates. That went on for over two years.
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That's kind of how I remembered it going down around here; your reply kind of cleared the cobwebs a bit. I think Boeing was under-bidding on its professional labor rates, and expecting us to work a percentage of overtime (unrecorded) to lower our actuals to their under-bid rate. They did get their pee pee slapped for that one, and hard, from what I remember. Not surprising Micky D's was still doing that at their "heritage" sites (don't you just love that term?) long after they bought Boeing (with Boeing's own money, but that's a story for another day...).