Overtime Hog Hats

Overtime hog is the name the boss gives the coworker who takes every extra shift, and HR guides still tell managers to watch out for them. Staffing writers note that it is not uncommon for 20 percent of a company's employees to work 80 percent of the overtime. The people doing it tend to wear the label with pride. Nurses, linemen, correctional officers, factory and warehouse crews all speak the same money language: time and a half, a double, holiday pay. Lineworker storm crews travel to disaster zones to bank weeks of double time, and one New York prison nurse netted $150,630 in overtime on top of a $58,468 salary in 2012. These overtime hog hats are for the wearer on the other end of that paycheck. The badges are OVERTIME HOG and TIME AND A HALF, the two phrases most likely to be searched. The sentence designs carry the bragging: the paystub with a second page, the person who does not call in but calls dibs, the double picked up on a birthday and called beautiful, and a day off reframed as an unpaid day. Pay structures differ by contract, so the hats make no promises about your rate, only about your attitude. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one to the next shift board, or give one to the friend who always says yes to the double.