[Speed Gibson,
Wednesday November 14, 2007 at 6:56pm]
Nice Work if you can get it
I noticed that one of the reasons given for firing MnDot executive Sonia Kay Morphew Pitt was about overtime. Quoting from the Minneapolis Star Tribune account:
I've been on salary for 35 years and I've never collected an hour of overtime, even those weeks when I put in as much as 90 hours (my wife kept track!). You work the job, not the hours. There are exceptions, like for store managers covering extra hours at another store in a chain. I assume it's the employer's discretion as are bonuses.
But this certainly should not apply to a high ranking presumably salaried executive position. What's going on here? She must be in good with the public school superintendents that seem to get paid more for leaving than for showing up.
"MnDOT's report said it is difficult to gauge the exact amount of time Pitt spent working during her post-Harvard stay in Washington from Aug. 3-11, but she filed for her regular pay plus several hours of overtime. MnDOT had not authorized any time in Washington either before or after the Harvard trip, the report said."Overtime? For an executive? I always thought those terms were mutually exclusive.
I've been on salary for 35 years and I've never collected an hour of overtime, even those weeks when I put in as much as 90 hours (my wife kept track!). You work the job, not the hours. There are exceptions, like for store managers covering extra hours at another store in a chain. I assume it's the employer's discretion as are bonuses.
But this certainly should not apply to a high ranking presumably salaried executive position. What's going on here? She must be in good with the public school superintendents that seem to get paid more for leaving than for showing up.