With the economy in the crapper, how many still work overtime?

I have to go in tomorrow for about 5 hours...we are overloaded with work.
Shit, we could use more people...

hmmm...if they stopped paying overtime and hired a few extra bodies...

Ours ended about November
I got used to the extra cash

self employed...

I could have it if I wanted it: we are looking for help, too.

roodboi said:

co-

but it's still hard...

RenHoek said:

luckily, our business hasn't seen any kind of fall off and I don't expect to see any...we also operate in a military town, so that helps...and it's a family operation, which helps as well...

roodboi said:

Whereabouts?

roodboi said:

hmmm, lucky! I do window coverings and when housing takes a hit so do I, right in da webbles... but self employment is where it's at...

reneGade20 said:

Hinesville Georgia...Fort Stewart

roodboi said:

one of the three Army posts I hope I NEVER EVER EVER EVER get assigned to....Ft. Polk and Ft. Hood are the others.....

reneGade20 said:

I hear that from alot of guys...but alot of others end up settling down here...guess it just depends on the person...if you ever come to Ft Stewart for any reason though, we need to get together

reneGade20 said:

What's wrong withh Ft. Hood?

SCNDLS said:

the name says it all...its the hood

roodboi said:

Ummmm, no.

roodboi said:

Most def!!

SCNDLS said:

just from my dealings with a lot of the troops that I've come in contact from there while deployed to Iraq, I know that its not a place for me....I just get the feeling of it being "under the table" political...and I've never been overly impressed with troops or Non-coms that came from there and ended up working for me...

reneGade20 said:

Interesting.

<----Undertimed.



But I actually love the extra time.

SCNDLS said:

Are you close to Hood?

reneGade20 said:

Nah, I'm in the Dallas area but when I first moved to the US in 1980 I lived in Killeen with a family where the husband was a Lt. Col. at Ft. Hood.

Nope, can't remember the last time I got that.

I miss the days when I was paid hourly. The overtime pay was delicious. I work the same hours now and I'm paid nicely for it, but there was something psychologically gratifying about counting up that overtime money as the endless hours passed during 70 hour work week.

wildgoldenhoney said:

I meant to say, extra 'free' time.

And I spoke too soon, I've actually got to work a long shift tommorrow.