It happened again, like approximate clockwork: I wasn't paid for all the hours I put in on my last pay period, which included a sixteen-hour marathon last Wednesday. Situations like this, which happen four or five times a year, make it very hard to play the good soldier and be the versatile employee my company wants their workers to be.
Other people were shorted - one was missing 30 overtime hours on his paycheck. They basically drag this guy from one end of the well to the other: he signs up to work five hours overtime, they keep him for sixteen. All of it, written off on his check.
Most blame the corporate headquarters for not processing the overtime information. Overlooked, perhaps, might be the actual payroll company. Without divulging the name, this payroll processing company has handled paychecks on two of my other jobs some years back. And in each job, I remember going to my supervisor on more than one occassion, saying I was shorted on hours. You have to question the competency of this company in the long-term, since it totals over 10 years of payroll errors.
Whether their reasoning is fair or not, the other workers affected have every right to feel angry. The image of the fat CEO leaning back in their recliner is in everyone's minds as they feel the middle class is being squeezed out of society. Are the millionaires having that much trouble? Was the rent on their 40-room mansion late? Couldn't they afford pizza for a third time that day? Corporate greed begins at the top, and the only ones who can't see it are themselves. Just ask anybody in the pertroleum business.
I'll bet the CEO of the payroll company doesn't have a broken bathroom faucet to fix, like I do. It will take more juggling in order to fit that, as well as the rent, in for this month. Too bad there can't be citizens arrests of these CEOs in order to balance the scale & right the wrongs of our lives.
