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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
Mike, I'm not sure of your experiences at Boeing, but the company did get into some hot water years ago with undocumented/uncompensated overtime. Not with any of its unions, either, but with the good ol' Federal Gubmint. I can't remember the entire gist of it, but it had to do with cost accounting on military programs. As a result, it has been mandatory around here for well over a decade (probably more like 15 years or more) to report and record each and every stinking minute of overtime. That's for us, the professional workforce - it's always been that way for the hourly work force. That leads me to ask two questions: How long ago was this? Which location?
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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.