Dear Jim, Screw You, Love, General Dynamics

I'm rapidly starting to dispise my job. I never really liked it, but I quietly (at least while at work) tolerated it. Lately, as they've continued to take more and more away from us, I've started to become less quiet. This morning they flat out pissed me off. Over the last 2 week pay period, I worked about 13 hours of overtime in order to finish up a project that needed to be completed. Once we go to a new timecard format, we will no longer be paid for our first 8 hours of overtime, which of course means that I will no longer work any overtime. Up until then, we're still being paid for pre-authorized overtime. There has been an unwritten rule, however, that if you work less than 3 hours of overtime, that you charge it to casual overtime and not paid overtime. I think the rule sucks, but I play along by simply making sure that if I'm working any overtime, that I work enough to get paid. For the last couple years, we've been on an 80 week pay period instead of a 40 hour pay period. This just means that everything is done on a 2 week period. Because we get every other friday off, I got the bulk of my overtime in on the first week by working a full day on my friday off. On the second week I managed to squeeze in one extra hour of overtime, for a total of 13 hours of overtime for that pay period. But, my manager called me to let me know that the "1 hour of overtime" still looks bad. Nevermind that it's one of 13 hours that I worked over for this fucking company instead of working on my snowmobile and spending time with my wife. So, I had to let them stick that one hour of overtime up my ass and take 12 hours instead of 13.

So, because of that, this is the last overtime that I will ever work for General Dynamics. I don't give a shit if the fucking pope needs personal protection, they better only expect me to do it during my normal pay period, because the second I hit hour number 80 I'm leaving this place from now on.