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I'm DONE! The NY Post is reporting that staffers at Harpo Inc are rolling they're eyes at one staffer who somehow accumulated $65,000 worth of overtime in just 16 weeks!!! Yes you heard right! $65,000! I'm over here scratching my weave at this one!! Read the article below while I go dust off my Resume to send to Oprah! I need a Boss like her!
Oprah Winfrey may employ lots of hard workers, but staffers at Harpo Inc. are grumbling that the star's production company allowed one well-connected assistant to rake in astounding, nearly impossible-to-accumulate overtime - worth a whopping $65,000 - in just 16 weeks.
According to one Harpo employee, Carla Bird, the girl Friday to Oprah's TV co-executive producer Lisa Erspamer, filed for 800 hours of overtime from January through April of this year.
"Several weeks ago, it was discovered by accounting and human resources," our source said. "Most employees would have been walked right out the door. Well, that's just not the case for good ol' 'Birdie.' "
Lisa Halliday, chief of communications at Harpo, insisted the story was false and said Bird's claims were totally legit.
"Many of our employees contribute significant hours of overtime during our production season. This is quite common within the television industry," she told Page Six.
"From January to April 2007, this employee legitimately accumulated approximately 800 hours of overtime."
If that's true, then Bird's performance at the company that produces Winfrey's daily chatfest was truly superhuman. Assuming that she worked a regular, five-day week, Bird would have clocked an astounding 18.5 hours of work a day.
Even if she was toiling over a seven-day workweek, she would still have to have been on the job for a backbreaking 13.2 hours a day. That's based on a 16-week period (with Winfrey's staffers traditionally getting the first week of January off).
Halliday responded, "Our employees' schedules vary. Some of our staff does work the first week of January - as Carla did this year. Based on 800 hours of OT, for the 17-week period, with a seven-day work week - she would average just under 12.5 hours a day." Whew!
Asked if she were indeed getting special favors from Harpo, Bird told us: "I'm not allowed to comment. Thank you."
Oprah Winfrey may employ lots of hard workers, but staffers at Harpo Inc. are grumbling that the star's production company allowed one well-connected assistant to rake in astounding, nearly impossible-to-accumulate overtime - worth a whopping $65,000 - in just 16 weeks.
According to one Harpo employee, Carla Bird, the girl Friday to Oprah's TV co-executive producer Lisa Erspamer, filed for 800 hours of overtime from January through April of this year.
"Several weeks ago, it was discovered by accounting and human resources," our source said. "Most employees would have been walked right out the door. Well, that's just not the case for good ol' 'Birdie.' "
Lisa Halliday, chief of communications at Harpo, insisted the story was false and said Bird's claims were totally legit.
"Many of our employees contribute significant hours of overtime during our production season. This is quite common within the television industry," she told Page Six.
"From January to April 2007, this employee legitimately accumulated approximately 800 hours of overtime."
If that's true, then Bird's performance at the company that produces Winfrey's daily chatfest was truly superhuman. Assuming that she worked a regular, five-day week, Bird would have clocked an astounding 18.5 hours of work a day.
Even if she was toiling over a seven-day workweek, she would still have to have been on the job for a backbreaking 13.2 hours a day. That's based on a 16-week period (with Winfrey's staffers traditionally getting the first week of January off).
Halliday responded, "Our employees' schedules vary. Some of our staff does work the first week of January - as Carla did this year. Based on 800 hours of OT, for the 17-week period, with a seven-day work week - she would average just under 12.5 hours a day." Whew!
Asked if she were indeed getting special favors from Harpo, Bird told us: "I'm not allowed to comment. Thank you."
2 comments:
I don't think this is all that unusual. I work at a law firm and average 12 hrs a day, 6 days a week, I don't think it's that hard for someone working in the busy workd of Oprah to be required to do double that, come on now this is Oprah one of the most generous women alive, did we forget she did give away cars to her entire audience
I worked from 3pm to 3 am 12 hours my new job is 9 am to 8 pm 11 hours. unfortunately workin more then 8 hours a day is becoming common just to get by and pay the bills.however i dont even get paid overtime!!!
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