I work for a government agency. I’m required to give my state agency 35 hours per week, 7 hours a day. I’m salary, so if I work overtime I don’t get extra money. I do get 1 hour of vacation for every hour extra I work. The catch to get that OT is you have to have worked 35 hours that week. If you take PTO or call in sick during the week you did ot, you won’t accrue that bonus pto
past period I had 14 hours of PTO scheduled. Earlier in the week I did 4 hours of OT over 2 different days to make sure all duties were taken care of because I’m doing the job of 3 people right now. I checked with the payroll people, and they said it was ok to remove/save 4 hours of PTO since I worked 4 OT on different days. Basically, I save 4 PTO hours in exchange for not getting credit time for the OT I did.
Cue my boss. He refused to sign off on my time sheet. According to him, every work day must have 7 hours accounted for, doesn’t matter that you have OT time on other days. This was a direct contradiction to what payroll said was ok. FUCK YOU PAUL. I will never work a single minute of OT for you ever again. Shit doesn’t get done? I’m all out of fucks. Fire me when I am the only one running shit. End rant.
I already do this. I email my boss summaries of the tasks I finish, and ask if he would rather I prioritize something different, and I keep a spread sheet going with the time I spend on tasks.
I did something similar. I wasn’t getting screwed like you, but I was being told I wasn’t getting work done when I was the only actual employee in my department with a couple of contract people who didn’t have access to our systems. This is what I did today, this is what still needs doing, these are the upcoming deadlines, my plan is to do this tomorrow, do you want me to pivot. Solved the complaints issue. Copied my boss’ boss for good measure. My boss wasn’t a bad boss, he just was told to get stuff done and I was the only one who could do it (I have skills and certifications he doesn’t have). So, this took the pressure off of everyone.