{"id":3179,"date":"2012-07-21T12:34:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T16:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadianbudgetbinder.com\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2025-02-24T05:56:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T05:56:31","slug":"track-your-overtime-hours-or-potentially-risk-losing-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalskyweb.co\/canadianbudgetbinder.com\/2012\/07\/21\/track-your-overtime-hours-or-potentially-risk-losing-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Track Your Overtime Hours Or Potentially Risk Losing Money!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tracking your overtime hours<\/em> is probably the last thing you want to do at the end of a long day at work but let me tell you it’s worth it. I’m one of those blokes who used to rely on the computer system to get it right, but not any more. \u00a0When you’ve worked countless hours dragging your butt out of work and right into the shower to relax is paramount to writing down your work hours. That’s what I used to do but not any more. \u00a0I try not to think of the amount of money I potentially lost simply but not checking my pay stubs against an overtime tracking system<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Some people I know would track their work hours on a piece of paper and put it in their wallet. I though why are you even bothering to do that. They were the smart one’s not me. \u00a0Mrs. CBB started asking for my pay stubs each week as she typically would find them tossed in a drawer. (the man drawer… we all have them)<\/p>\n

You would think I’m well-organized and believe me I am, just not with pay stubs. *that’s changed* \u00a0I admit I was tired of listening to her chatting off my ear about leaving them around. Well then she started reading them and asked me if I was tracking my overtime<\/em>. I didn’t know what to say as I thought, man oh man she’s going to dig into me for this one. \u00a0 I’m not perfect and we all should admit our faults but also improve on them.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until we actually sat down during our weekly budget<\/a> session and noticed that 3 hours was missing from my pay from training that I had done. I have done a lot of travelling and \u00a0training as it’s an ongoing process in my career and it seems like 3 hours of it was almost done for free. \u00a0Thank goodness we caught the error but it really jolted us into high gear when it came to our finances. We work so hard to save yet something so simple was being overlooked. We rely so much on technology today that we believe that errors are not imminent, but they are, even by humans.<\/p>\n

Mrs.CBB told me a time when she was younger working at a coffee shop and she picked up her weekly pay and thought she struck gold. Visions of shopping at the mall, new clothes, CD’s ,make-up whirled around in her head. That didn’t last long ,for one she would never blow money like that and it wasn’t her money to spend. Opening her pay to see she net over $3000.00 for a 2 week period made her happy if not euphoric in a way. She says it was almost a wake up call for her. She really wanted to net more money and knew that to feel that\u00a0excitement\u00a0again she would have to work very hard in school. Amazing how someone can think outside the box sometimes even if it involves feelings.<\/p>\n

Who knew pouring coffee and dipping\u00a0donuts\u00a0was such a lucrative career? \u00a0What happened? Instead of paying her $6.40 an hour she was paid $64.00 an hour plus all the overtime she worked in that period. \u00a0Was it a computer glitch or human error, we will never know? We always say how important it is to check your receipts<\/a> before you leave the grocery shop and this is just the same.<\/p>\n

Yes, she immediately gave the money back and told her boss right away about the error and then all her shopoholic<\/a>\u00a0visions disappeared. I’m sure eventually they would have figured it out, but what if they didn’t? This leads to another issue if you are a business owner.<\/p>\n

What Quality Control procedures do you have in place for your company?<\/p>\n