Hi -
Just wondering how much of you all work on weekends for free / No over time?
How much of you all work during your vacation?
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IT means old out of touch people who can't operate their own email asking for the impossible and demanding you work 80 hours a week regardless of company. IT === no life balance/long hours.
I am not approved for overtime.
But other departments are approved.
I feel guilty for not responding to emails / phone calls on weekends- o well.
People in IT frequently worked free overtime and it wasn’t because of poor time management. Upper management often made promises to deliver large projects without any idea of how long the projects should take and the technical people busted their rear ends trying to make it happen. Agency resources cannot work overtime without prior approval which is difficult to get so the extra falls to the ford people. I can’t imagine anyone would waste their time all day because they want to work evenings and weekends.
If you are doing your job correctly and efficiently, you do not need to work OT.
Those who works OT are those who cannot or do not know how to do their job. They are also wanting more money and less time with their family and friends.
No one in FMC. worked OT for free. Most of you are milking the company for money by doing your job inefficiently. This is the model at Ford for many years and many employees have been abusing the OT system for many years.
Would love to help...
But anonymity appeals to me more...
Is there a link where your work can be reviewed? Or how you can be reached...
I am a visual artist in Detroit.
I am making a presentation for a museum in Germany about the future of work in an age of automation.
I want to include your ideas and thoughts as people who work for Ford on this topic. It is such an important subject about the future of our lives when our labor is increasingly not needed in the work place.
I would like to be able to include what you discuss here on this forum in the presentation, so I would need your permission for this. I will not use any of your words in the work with out your full permission.
I know that anything we say here, Ford sees - is there away around this?
I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Danielle