Well, I've finally entered the real working world by having to work late. It's not that great but since I'm still hourly the time and a half pay is pretty good. A project came into work and I was the one that it was dumped on. We got the specifics Wednesday morning and they said that they needed it by Monday of the next week.
I work the first day on it just to get a feel of what is going to be needed. Some questions popped up as I started working on the project. When I talk to them it turns out that they really won't have any data for these reports for another week. So the rush job that they said they "needed by Monday" is really something that they needed by a week from Monday. I was offered the overtime so I took as much as they would give me. I stayed until 7:45 one night and was amazed at how much work I can get done once everyone is gone. I can turn up the music and focus on what I'm doing. I put in a good three and a half hours that week. When I got my paycheck for the week I noticed that I was missing all the overtime I worked. I shot an email off to HR to see what was up. I was surprised by the quick response and it ends up that I missed punching in after lunch so it messed up my hours worked. I put through the fix so I should see the revised amount on the next check.
I got the project done by that Friday, but I received a call on Monday saying that the people wanted some things changed with the reports. As of today, I think I'm done with them. At least I hope.
This week though is another week of overtime. My boss 2 up (my boss's boss) said that overtime is always an option for my department. This is a good thing for me because I had always thought that I couldn't put in any. I have a roll out happening next week so I'm in the midst of trying to make sure the application is working and locked down so no one can mess it up. I put in an extra hour and half on Monday and probably another hour today. This extra $$ will be nice, I have some bills to pay off. I just need to make sure that I stay under that limit of the higher ups complaining about too much overtime.
