{"id":1804,"date":"2014-11-10T01:41:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T06:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2014-10-06T08:47:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T13:47:20","slug":"unpaid-overtime-and-undertime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2014\/11\/unpaid-overtime-and-undertime\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpaid Overtime and Undertime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unpaid overtime is almost always followed by undertime, i.e., people not working.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unpaid overtime is a fact. It is not just a recent occurrence as it has occurred for, oh, let&#8217;s say, centuries. People work extra hard for a period of time (hopefully a short period of time).<\/p>\n<p>Then what happens?<\/p>\n<p>People &#8220;make up&#8221; for the unpaid hours by taking longer lunches, arriving late in the morning, leaving early in the evening, or (more likely) all three. These activities are <em>undertime<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This has something to do with human nature I suppose. People can&#8217;t sprint forever. That is why it is called a sprint. Unpaid overtime is a sprint. People rest after sprinting.<\/p>\n<p>If you ask people to sprint, i.e., work overtime without any extra pay, expect them to rest afterwards. If you cannot afford to have them rest, pay them for the overtime.<\/p>\n<p>This is, yet another, example of the adage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>there is no free lunch<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you thought there was a free lunch, sorry to disappoint you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Unpaid overtime is almost always followed by undertime, i.e., people not working. Unpaid overtime is a fact. It is not just a recent occurrence as it has occurred for, oh, let&#8217;s say, centuries. People work extra hard for a period of time (hopefully a short period of time). Then what happens? People [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-management","tag-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}