If you screw up royally at work should you get overtime to clean it up?

[Darth_Kitten]

This is happening at work right now and it pisses me off.

Certain section has a real dufus who screwed up royally causing a major mistake. Like she makes mistakes all the time, not little ones, not oh everybody does it, but mistakes that cost other sections a lot of work.

Well, the people in this certain section at work are staying overtime to finish some work related stuff because of this mess. Screw up person is staying,

isn't this just WRONG?

I think it is. :D

[ohiosmith]

1. Are they being paid for the OT?

[Darth_Kitten]

2. of course, it's unionized.

:)

[philosophie_en_rose]

3. Yep. Work is work.

Discipline is another matter.

[qnr]

4. How long before management claims all overtime is due to some sort

of mysterious employee screw-up and doesn't pay anyone for their overtime?

[Nikia]

5. Yes, but if it is habitual they should be disciplined

Up to being fired.

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

6. You have to pay for time worked

No matter what the reason, including overtime. That's the law. If someone keeps screwing up so that that employee or other employees have to work overtime to fix it, the solution is to discipline the employee. But you have to pay them, that's the law.

[Darth_Kitten]

7. Thing is there will not be any discipline.....

trust me, I've worked in that section and management is screwed up. Big time. It's like they enjoy making excuses for useless people.

So glad I'm out of there.....there are a few pals left in that section, but I keep telling them, grab a life preserver and save yourselves.

[idgiehkt]

8. we had a mistake like that on my last temp job

a 2 inch label, the wrong one, was on every part. So we had to dig them off with our fingernails. It was the other shift that did it. It was really painful, actually, having to scrape all day like that. It was safety equipment so everything has to be just so. And it set us a day behind so we had to work Saturday. What totally sucked was the shift that did it didn't have to undo it. Work sucks.