Just when you think that all is going well and that you are finally getting caught up, the proverbial shit hits the fan. It seems the person who set up our new timeclock made a huge error. We asked that holiday and vacation time be included when determining overtime hours for both individual days as well as entire weeks. The setup person neglected to do this. Unfortunately, I just found out about this today when a few of our hourly personnel let me know that they didn’t get paid for their overtime over the holidays. Well shit.

I spent most of the day figuring out what these folks should have been paid vs. what they were actually paid. Tomorrow I will be issuing checks to all of them. And then I have to go backwards to last May to determine if any of them didn’t get paid correctly for their hours worked throughout 2008. What I’ll most likely do is finish up all my other work that absolutely must be completed this month and then start in on that project. None of them know they could be entitled to additional pay for those hours, so whatever they get will be like a bonus check.

It took all day to figure out 2 weeks worth of overtime. God knows how long it will take me to determine 7 months worth.