Re: (erielack) TIME CHANGE

["Philip Martin" <martinpl3_@_earthlink.net>]

In the towers, for as long as I remember, we always got eight hours,
straight time, for the Daylight Savings time changes, whether you worked
seven or nine hours.  As far as I know, no operator ever time carded it.

Philip Martin
martinpl3_@_earthlink.net
Why Wait?  Move to EarthLink.


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> Date: 11/9/2003 12:54:36 PM
> Subject: Re: (erielack) TIME CHANGE
>
> Reading Mr Martins post on the time change remiinded me of the fall of
1965 
> or so when we turned back the clocks at East Binghamton yard resulting in 
> everyone on the afternoon shift engines working 9 hours instead of 8 due
to being 
> in the interval when the hour was added to the workday. I, along with
many 
> others turned in a timeslip for 8 hours at straight time  plus one hour
at 
> overtime acct being on duty in yard service for 9 hours. All these were
duly denied 
> ......NO BASIS TO THIS CLAIM. I called the office and asked the crew
dispatcher 
> why he'd denied the claim and he advised me that he had nothing to do
with 
> it, that the RFE, Sammy Miller, had done it personally & furthermore if
there 
> were any questions, I should call his ofice and speak to him about it. I
called 
> his office for 3 days in a row several times each day and finally got him
on 
> the 4th day. (At this point I must digress to explain that I was really
pissed 
> about not beiing able to reach him since he had just given me 5 days off
as 
> discipline for missing a call. It's OK for him not to answer the phone,
but if 
> YOU don't, I'll torture you to death.)  When he came to the phone, he
explained 
> to me that the reason for the denial was that in the Spring, when the
clocks 
> moved forward, whoever worked the yard jobs on the DL&W side went home an
hour 
> early, so he was 'evening things up now'. I told him that I was working a 
> road job in the Spring of the year, but he replied that "Whoever it was
then, 
> you're on the job NOW & the denial was legal". 
>       After this bit of Kafka-esque reasoning, I decided it was useless
to 
> try & reason with Sammy & I therefore wrote up a claim for 1 hour at 
> time-and-one-half since it was improperly denied. I forgot about it afte
a while, but a 
> few years later, they had accumulated hundreds of these idiotic claims
and 
> after arbitration they were all paid. I also heard that Sammy got a
blistering 
> letter from Cleveland for all the problems this caused the Accounting
Dept. 
> there. I suppose it was one more reason he hated & tormented  the DL&W
men. I just 
> had my memory jogged by the notes on the timechange.
> Regards to all,
> Walter E. Smith

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