A regional manager guy was at our barn Monday.... I don't know if this was a freudian slip but they (The Magic Kingdumb) are toying with the idea to stop paying overtime... Straight time for everyone?
I will state this... Chances are that this will get flagged..
Management does more for unions than unions do for themselves.
He brought up the fact that OD and Estes does not pay overtime. Straight
time only.
Nothing would surprise me at this point.
After the things we have had to suffer through in the last several years at the hands of the 'survivalist's' management style and their collective misunderstanding of what it takes to operate and maintain some semblance of an employee conducive workplace...I can believe it has been discussed.
However I doubt it will fly...at least not in the forseeable future...
With that being said...I can see it being an edict for new hires...the job title being changed from DSR to God only knows what to delineate and segregate the two (and very different) pay structures...
Hire on after a certain date and no OT!...and they will be so informed prior to accepting the position.
Hell!!!...who knows they may bastardize the entire pay structure for new people and change the progression from what is now the 'norm' to an entirely different scenario...but all this is just conjecture at this point...
We are an aging workforce and Ann Arbor knows this...many people will be leaving the company in the next several years...people who have been around since the beginning or shortly thereafter...the people who knew what this company purported themselves to be (or wanted to be...at least at the outset!)...once the 'Detter' folks are gone...there will be nothing left for comparison to the 'early' days....
Then it will become a benign non-descript faceless entitiy utilizing people as mere tools...readily wiling to discard them at will...
The 'Dream' will officially be dead...if is isn't already!!!!
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