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Anyway, the person I did this for most recently offered 300 for what they thought would be 10 hours work. When I finished it in less than two because I had all my scripts already, they disputed paying me the full $300 because it didn't take ten hours.

So, they'd have more been willing to pay someone to manually play around with their data and waste time, than for someone to do it more efficiently? It annoys me when people only look at the face value of the time spent doing the task and not how long it takes to get the skill that allows you to do it quickly.
That's been pissing me off about my job recently. We've brought in one of our senior inspectors to run our department and to cut down on people scamming the company by disappearing from jobs and not showing up on time, etc. However, some of the things he's been doing are really just dumb, in my opinion.

Take this past week for example. On Wednesday, I was at four different job sites. Granted, three of them were on the same block, and I was essentially bouncing around the three all day, which amounted to 2 full day billings, and a half day ( that's $2100 made right there for my company), and I was there from 7am-2pm. I then stopped by a fourth job, which did work essentially behind our backs, which isn't good, as I'm a construction inspector and need to verify that certain things are done properly. I called the new manager to tell him about this, he got pissed at the guys who did the work, and told me I was done for the day (we billed these guys for half a day ( or $400). He then gave me the option of either using my comp time to take the 1.5 hours I had left on the clock off, or I could take an hour drive (about 35 miles one way in moderate traffic) back to our office, to essentially poke my head in, say hi, then leave.

This is where I get annoyed. I made the company 2500 bucks for a single day, which is more than 3 inspectors make being on a single job for a full day. It would have cost the company less to just pay me out for my 1.5 hours and let me go home early, instead of paying me to drive for an extra 65 miles (from the job to the office, and back to my house).

The real pickle in all of this is that we don't get paid for overtime, we get 1.5 hours for every hour over 40 that we work, put into what they call comp time. These are the hours that we use when we're sick or on vacation, etc. They're nickle and diming us so that we can't earn any more comp time, and now they're taking it from us if we're not on a job site for a full 8 hours a day. We don't have sick days otherwise.

My problem is how are we supposed to take time off if we're sick, if they're not letting us keep the time we've already gained, and if we can't get more comp time in case we get sick?

On top of that, I finished two jobs on Thursday, wrapped up around 1, went to the office, did all the work that we had to handle, caught up on all of my reports, and was hanging out. The same manager told me to either find something to do, or comp out. He's making it impossible to even maintain our comp time even when we do come into the office, which is what he wants us to do when we're done early.

What the ****