Pros
I enjoy the people I work with immensely.
Cons
We previously had Compensatory Time. Any billable hours earned after 40 billable hours in a week would go to your Comp Time bank and could be used as PTO during slower periods. Each quarter any hours in excess of 120 hours would be paid out at your hourly rate. Management got rid of that. We switched to Straight Time Overtime (STOT) and you can take Leave Without Pay (LWOP). “Should be a 1-1 transition”, you may think. Unfortunately, with how LWOP is currently coded in the system, you are forced to take 5 consecutive business days of LWOP in order to accrue your normal PTO. If you work a 72 hr week, and then 8 hrs the following Monday, taking LWOP the rest of the week, you’ll only accrue 60% of the PTO you should have been, unless you also take the next Monday off. But if you take it off you’ll lose out on a full days pay just to accrue the PTO you should have been all along. I feel like I am disincentivized to work extra hours on my field projects and I am punished if I do. My options are to lose out on PTO, worked hours (money) or to not take time off to the detriment of myself and the projects I work on. This is a fundamentally abhorrent practice and cruel to your employees. It may even be illegal in some states.