- September 29th, 2016, 6:58 pm
#518251
I'm actually already hourly but I haven't heard a dang thing about what my school isa going to be doing about it. However, this pretty much guarantees I'll never be bumped from a 10-month to 12-month employee. It sucks, but long term not a big deal since I am going to be getting out of athletics when a non-athletics career opportunity arises. It was neat when I was in my 20s getting paid to work in sports, but after over a decade in the field, the hours required, especially on nights and weekends for 8-9 months a year, has gotten beyond old. Since the start of September, I literally will not get a weekend completely devoid of work until Thanksgiving. Sure some weekends it only involves me writing up a recap and doing some social media, but that is still work. Then I have a break around Christmas, but after that I won't get another break 100% devoid of work until May. I don't know how the hell people do this and maintain some sort of life outside of work.
I know a bunch of other people in athletic departments at other schools have heard what they are being dealt.
One is being told he can only average 5 OT hours a week when he is routinely having to put in 60. He is the only person in that office, so I don't know how that school is going to survive on that. The student-athletes, coaches, and fans are definitely going to be getting a vastly inferior experience and product because of this.
Another person I know has been told he can't work more than 4o hours.
Others are being told they have to figure out how to take off two whole months throughout the year.
Assistant coaches at many schools are being classified as non-faculty teachers because on-field coaching accounts for 50% of their work, and thus they are exempt from the OT rules. Some are even being told they aren't allowed to work in the summer and if they do they are doing it on a volunteer basis. Good luck winning games when your coaches can't get paid for recruiting in the summer.
Certainly expect to see a lot less traveling out of athletic trainers that fall below the threshold, certainly the non-contact sports will see a big decrease in athletic training travel. Travel is virtually guaranteed to be eliminated for SIDs who end up being hourly employees, either that or they are going to have to be allowed to chop out a significant part of their office duties.