Seasonal Employee Contract: Fill & Download for Free

This is how I learned how crooked employers can be, right at the start of my career. 1984, first job out of university. Five young women were hired by Sperry Corp. We were working on a contract for the State of Texas which involved a lot of traveling and overtime to install and look after a new computer system.We had to fill out two timesheets, one for our employer (single copy) and one for the State of Texas (triplicate). We were told to put eight hours per day on the employer timesheet but our real work hours on the State’s timesheet, because we were not going to get overtime pay from our employer. So, 40 hours per week for Sperry, 50+ for the State usually, since we often started by leaving on Sunday night and didn’t get back until Friday night. Travel hours were considered work hours. It was no fun, especially since we weren’t allowed any vacation time the first year.If you’ve ever worked in IT, you know you get stuck working weekends and holidays when fewer people mind if the system is down. Thus we were working on Thanksgiving weekend doing testing, along with some seasoned employees, all male. It was boring and we had lots of time to chat. One of them said “at least you are getting overtime for this”. We wryly laughed - “ha ha NO.” Two of them replied, “Well you should be, you’ve been here less than six months and they automatically classify you as non-exempt for six months when you are new.” Then some comments about the bosses probably not telling us this and figuring we wouldn’t complain because we were female.We quickly realized we had one copy of the triplicate time sheets for each week we’d been working, because we kept part of the State’s timesheet. Of the four of us ladies remaining, two did not want to make a fuss about it, and two of us decided to confront the bosses. We added up our overtime and had a plan going in.Our supervisor and his boss and his boss’s boss actually admitted they hadn’t paid us on purpose! Because “the project didn’t have the budget.” Really brazen and condescending attempt at deflecting us. I pointed out this was still illegal and I’d go to the EEOC if they didn’t make good on what they owed. We said we wanted a paid week off at Christmas and cash to make up for the overtime, which they gave us. Our two colleagues who were afraid to complain got nothing. My friend and I had a nice ski vacation together with the proceeds.I immediately found another job and moved away within a few weeks. Later I got to be an agent of karma: I rose to a position in my company where I had influence on decisions around large contract awards. When Unisys (formerly Sperry Corp) was competing for our business, I made sure my fellow decision-makers knew about my story. It’s bad business to cheat your employees!

It will beContract jobs are kind of jobs which holds contract you from job and these kinds of employees have their work and their contract will considered.Some companies have trend of performing best which help employees to have progress which includes employees work better work with permanent employment solution.Some companies have probation which include employees perform well and get them salary with good perks.Corporate sector companies are better with contract because these companies are better to have solutions and employment will be better.Some government jobs also have civilian contracts which will be helpful like civilians in defence remains one place and no transfer will be there.

Volcano training.So, between the six formal jobs I’ve worked after graduating high school, I recall the following mandatory employee trainings:6x “Mandated reporter” training for recognizing and reporting suspected child abuse (pretty much every job working with children has this)6x Fire evacuation training (every job ever probably has this)5x Earthquake disaster drill (every job in a quake prone state has it)4x CPR training (normal)4x Active school shooter simulation (every school or camp job)2x Cleaning and sanitizing/pathogen safety training2x Conflict management/deescalation2x Lice detection and prevention1x Drowning/water rescue training1x Volcano disaster drillThat last one is possibly my favorite. It was my first seasonal job working out of state, and I happened to pick a location that was near a long-dormant volcano.So, I show up, pick up my ID badge, and get a list of all the required new seasonal employee training sessions I’ll be in: “fire”, “CPR”, “Missing child”, etc., all normal and expected. But the final one is “Volcano”.I assumed it was a joke. It sort of was.The basic message I got from that training was that if there were to be an eruption, we could do some stuff but would likely die no matter what.Like, they showed us how to seal a room from toxic gases (except that was nearly impossible), where to meet to load up the evacuation vehicles (except we were probably too close to the site to escape it in time), had us put on air purifying masks (except they weren’t effective except against very large ash particles). An hour later, I left with renewed appreciation for volcanos and not much else.A couple months later, since there’d been no volcanic eruption, my work contract ended and I returned to my home state.I have no clue how accurate all of the training was. After that, I’ve intentionally never accepted a job that required me to learn “volcano protocol.”