-t, it is a recent change to how OT is calculated when there is time off - PTO and Holidays are now treated the same. Ish. If you take more PTO than you should due to OT, the "extra" PTO goes back in the pot. If you have OT and Holiday, you just plain lose the OT.

You'll get paid, right, but at regular time rate?

Nope. I get paid straight time for OT. But when there is a holiday in the pay period, it counts against the OT. I have complained to Corporate cause I had this happen with the 4th of July. So I just plain lose 8 hours of pay. I hates it. It is wrong like a wrong thing that is wrong. But I don't know what I can do about it.

Oh- and I end up at least answering some emails on my vacation because I am the only person who can register non-credit students. There is also only one person who can register credit bearing students, but we work in different departments so we are not cross trained to cover each other. We both try to take vacations during low volume times, but if there are registrations that need to be process immediately (like the class is about to start) we do it from home on our vacations. I have no idea how that will work once I move from exempt to non-exempt with the new federal regulations.

Suzi- are you exempt, but paid hourly, or non-exempt? Because if you are non-exempt, I suspect that is against federal wage and salary regulations. You could ask www.askamanager.com

The fact that I am exempt and would never get overtime does make me a lot more cavalier about these things. Added to the part where we can't roll over any leave time at all, and I really DGAF. I spent a significant amount of time working on my day off? I'm not charging it as a day off!

So, speaking of work, I'm doing a great job of talking myself out of applying for anything. But it's hard! Everything is awkward when you don't even have a cube at work, so I'm trying to only apply for things I really want. And most of the jobs in my field around here are at hospitals and universities, and I don't think I want that. I mean, I'm worked at two medium-large places now, and the bureaucracy is more than I want to deal with, so do I actually want to get into an actual bureaucracy?? But then on the flip side, small places don't pay enough, even if they are looking for someone like me (which mostly they aren't.) It is a dilemma!

You are right, suzi, that is very wrong!!

Jesse, if you'd like to talk about university bureaucracies, I am sure my sister would be happy to talk to you. She works in Cambridge but has applied for and interviewed at other places, and seems to have a good handle on administrative cultures overall.

Yeah, you know, that's a good idea. I think the different schools are pretty different, but I could start getting a big-picture idea.

Relatedly, I just heard from my neighbor that the students are back and "they ruin everything!" He works at Harvard.

I'm non-exempt. I will check out askamanager.

Yeah, Suzi, that does not sound legit. For one thing, OT is only calculated on a bi-weekly basis for specific professions suck as nurses. (And if in some way they have found a legit avenue to do this, they're still screwing you in a way that is not the norm.$