MrTwoBits

It's ok to laugh at me, I'm laughing at myself knowing how stupid this is, I feel like an idiot. IT buffoonery and perhaps other voodoo has somehow changed the view a bit in my inbox and it's maddening, I want it back to the old way.

-Previously, every single email was it's own separate email/line, if that makes sense. Let's say there's a topic of "Lunch" that I send out and get 5 replies...each of those replies would show up separately in my inbox.
-Now, everything in a thread is one single line. So in that same example above, I would only see one line in the inbox (the 'from' name being being the most recent respondee), then when I click it it shows me on the right side (reading pane) the entire string of emails going down to the first one.

I'm sure this is laughably easy and just takes one click somewhere...any input?

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problem in the African American community

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it's the black community. Not the "african american" community, unless you know many people in the last 50 years that have come over from that continent. Do you call yourself European American?

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East Coast Band

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solid post. Also miles had a losing record against richt so it's not like there was some innate advantage there.

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My point was earlier, are you paid overtime?

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Currently? No, never have been. Regardless if I work 60 hours in a pay period or 90 I still get the same check every 2 weeks.

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If he is a local governmental employee, the Fair Labor Standards Act does not apply to him like it does to private industry employees.

There are special rules regarding overtime for governmental employees involving giving compensatory time off in lieu of paying for overtime worked.

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They said that we will not be doing comp time bc it can create issues. One example they gave was that employers don't have to pay out comp time when someone leaves. So if an employee banked up a bunch of comp time, but then their boss (this is a hypothetical here) wouldn't let them use it on certain times because we're too busy or whatever, when that employee ends up leaving they wouldn't be entitled to get the comp time paid out to them which would create an unnecessary mess. So they're just doing OT.

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you will be a lot more accountable now for your hours. That half hour you may leave one day every other week that you don't deduct from your PTO? Can't do that anymore.

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NOw that I really think hard, I guess I have taken a little advantage. Nothing egregious, but maybe a few extra minutes for lunch here, leaving a bit early on a Friday there. I guess ultimately it's not going to be that big of a deal to get in line though.

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Provided you work at least 40 hours a week (counting all the clock outs for breaks, lunch, etc) you should not see any downward pressure on your take home pay.

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That's good. And as mentioned it's probably one week a month that I defniitely go over due to working on a weekend or staying late.

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your raises may be less under the new program, because the money to pay OT has to come from somewhere

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Didn't think about that. Typically we get 3% each year at our review (I think it's 1.5 for performance and 1.5 COL, but I'm not sure). Is that a definite that they will be affected?

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Does muschamp begin his scar career with a win or a loss?

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he's coaching at SC, it's already a loss.

that Obama signed that take affect nationwide 12/1. I think I understand everything but wanted to ask everyone here (who are all much smarter than me on these things) what y'all know about it or if you've been affected by it.

Currently I am salaried and make around $53K a year. He said that the new threshold where things will change up is around the $48K mark, but it will adjust every 3 years so HR figured that everyone who was close to that range would go ahead and be changed.

So basically, I'm getting reclassified from salary to hourly. Using my annual gross they came up with my hourly wage which is what I'll still make, no surpirse there. The biggest thing though is that I'll now be eligible for overtime (time and a half) which I never have before. In my industry, I rarely work less than 80 hours in a pay period. Sometimes way over. So ultimately I think this could/should be good for me, as I"ll now be able to take home more money.

The downsides, from what I can gather, are that I'll now have to clock in and out (and leaving for lunch, etc) and I'm no longer a "salaried" employee (which I don't really care about that 'status' anyway).

Has anyone else had to go through this before? Can I expect any major changes do you think? This is all new to me so I'm trying to get a handle on how I feel about it.

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what state. cold/hot?

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they're moving from the deep south to Texas.

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maybe something that they will need in their travels, a radar detector?

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that's a pretty good suggestion. I was trying to rack my brain about things for the home that they could get use out of, but a radar detector isn't a bad idea.

didn't think about accompanying glasses, that could be a good idea.