SUMMER HOURS at work
Jun. 1st, 2026 07:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcicatTechnically they started last week, but there was a holiday and I didn't bother trying to make it work. Anyway, the theory of 'summer hours' is that 'eligible employees' work extra time Monday through Thursday, and then take Friday afternoons off.
In practice, the summer hours policy is enacted in wildly inconsistent ways across the company. I am apparently the only hourly employee my current boss has at all (this wasn't very notable when my boss was only responsible for three people, but now for a variety of reasons I'm 'temporarily directly reporting' to someone who's responsible for, uh, a lot of people? idk the whole thing is ridiculous and yet I'm guessing would make perfect sense to LITERALLY ANYONE who has worked for a US company in the past ten years).
The POINT is that for quite a few years now, the person responsible for approving my time card has 1) absolutely not wanted to deal with the hassle of an hourly employee; and also 2) has no other hourly employees to compare me to. This has remained true through multiple bosses (temporary and otherwise) and has undeniably benefited me. So I guess yay? Celebrate the wins?
In practice, the summer hours policy is enacted in wildly inconsistent ways across the company. I am apparently the only hourly employee my current boss has at all (this wasn't very notable when my boss was only responsible for three people, but now for a variety of reasons I'm 'temporarily directly reporting' to someone who's responsible for, uh, a lot of people? idk the whole thing is ridiculous and yet I'm guessing would make perfect sense to LITERALLY ANYONE who has worked for a US company in the past ten years).
The POINT is that for quite a few years now, the person responsible for approving my time card has 1) absolutely not wanted to deal with the hassle of an hourly employee; and also 2) has no other hourly employees to compare me to. This has remained true through multiple bosses (temporary and otherwise) and has undeniably benefited me. So I guess yay? Celebrate the wins?
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Date: 2026-06-01 11:30 pm (UTC)