Nothing like a continuing series, I always say. On a recent Friday on one project, the powers that be began circulating the question, would you be willing to work extra over the coming weekend. This soon escalated to HOW MUCH extra, and so on until it became clear that no matter how much you wanted to work over the weekend, you could. Most folks left work Friday evening believing the weekend would be an overtime smorgasbord. Maybe not so much.
At 1 a.m. Saturday, when most temps were either asleep or still out getting drunk, an email went out to MOST of the temps on the project that the hours for Saturday would be a mere 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. No smorgasbord, kids. Not everyone checked this email before trying to go in at the normal start time of 8 a.m., but most did. Of course, the project is being staffed by two different agencies. Most of the folks work for the agency that sent out the 1 a.m. email, but 25 percent of the project's attorneys work for the second agency and did not get that email. They got an email from their agency later, telling them not to show up at 8 am, but to wait until 3 p.m.
Of course, they got that email at 8:09 a.m. And yeah, many of them were at the project site at the time.
The saddest part? Not an unusual event. Communications R Us, baby.
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