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gammaradiation2 t1_iyd6jbc wrote

Reply to comment by huskerdev in Job offer and counter-offer by peptalks93

Yeah I am not sure how a senior supervisor is still hourly. A line lead, sure. A true supervisor of hourly workers has a large portion of their work in administrative tasks (setting schedules, checking attendance, etc) and may even have a role in hiring and firing (though usually that is a manager and a director still has to sign the paperwork).

People always think about overtime with hourly...but they dont think about getting their hours cut. They also dont think about the fact that when you are salary you should be able to give and take...people, go the hell home when you dont have work to do and stop distracting people that do have work to do unless its to ask them if you can pick up some work to help them.

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ShellSide t1_iydbq4a wrote

Yep If you aren't in a toxic environment that expects to hire salary workers to get 50-60hrs of work without overtime, then salary kicks ass. I was at work the day before Thanksgiving break and most people took vacation to start early. I saw all my meetings were cancelled for the day so I did a little bit more work that I needed to finish and left at like 2pm. I also more or less can show up anytime between 7-9am and no one cares. As long as I'm completing my work and not falling behind on deadlines, I'm mostly left alone which is nice lol

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gammaradiation2 t1_iydhlzq wrote

Exactly.

As an hourly worker your are paid for your time working.

As a salary worker you are paid to complete assigned tasks.

When I managed technical professionals I actively encouraged people to go home when they finished everything they could in their project queue. I'd rather promote incentive to get the work done sooner rather than drag it out to make sure they looked busy for 40hr a week. I once had a manager of hourly people complain to me about my people leaving. I asked if they could cite a recent failure to deliver, they couldn't. Likewise, when shit hit the fan, I fully expected my people to come in early, stay late, and work across hourly employee shift schedules until the problems were resolved.

I also think that good professional salary workers never really stop working. I've had some great work ideas at 9:00 PM in the shower.

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ShellSide t1_iydqs0d wrote

Haha yeah I can definitely relate to that last bit. I'll get home and be talking to my fiance about my day or things that I'm working on and go "oh wait what about doing it this way" and set a reminder on my phone to look into it the next day lol

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