Longview News-Journal from Longview, Texas • Page 35

.1 3-C SUNDAY, Dcmbw 23, 1990, Longviaw Ntwt-Journal notes How to overcome overtime work bind -V 1 Wink Hurst Whitson Wyatt Hubbard rn 1 i id) By Paula Ancona Scrlpps Howard News Service Many people see overtime work as part of their hectic being paid overtime might be a welcome fringe benefit. But some workers dread being asked to stay late or work weekends. They may have young children at home alone or with day-care providers, who close at 6 p.m. Or they may care for an elderly parent or relative. These employees just can't work overtime at a moment's notice.

How can employees get out of this overtime straijacket? Some tips: Give your boss advance notice that working late wilK be difficult for you. Explain why. Ask for one to three days of advance notice. If overtime requests still are a problem, talk with your boss. Many people won't do this, fearing that their boss will think they're not dedicated.

But if you don't, you might be forced to quit or change jobs. Tell your boss that you are serious about your job but that overtime creates big problems. Offer your boss alternatives. You could come in early tomorrow instead of working late today; go home for a few hours and return later after you've arranged alternate care; work Saturday mornings when other family members could help at home; or swap work with a coworker. Demonstrate your commitment.

Work steady when you're on duty. Work through lunch and take work home when necessary. Know how much notice your WORXIMQ SMARTEFR caregiver needs to work late. Are there extra charges? Tell: your-caregivers how often you expect to work late. Find out if a teacher or fellow parent occasionally would take your child home Jor a few hours.

I- Help managers compile a list of late day-care providers to share with the staff. Know your rights. If you're in a union, check your contract about advance notice for overtime and whether you can refuse it. Without a contract your employer probably could fire ydu for refusing overtime, sayiqg that you couldn't do your job. Also, is there a grievance policy you could use? Suggest ways to eliminate costly overtime.

Change deadlines, redistribute the workload, plan better, use temporary workers. Find cb-workets who- also feel overtime pressures. Managers are more likely to deal with a problem that affects many employees including highly valued ones. Have this group meet with top managers. Ask them to survey employees on family issues related to work.

Argue that more flexible overtime policies and schedules can cut employee turnover, increase productivity, improve morale and attract good Job candidates. And managers can use the flexible policies, too. Suggest that managers distribute overtime more fairly. Ask for volunteers first. Or spread the overtime around.

Engineers group officers The East Texas Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers 1990-91 officers are from left, C.R. Holder, retired OSHA director; Chris Wilson, vice president and safety coordinator for Pride Petroleum Services; Wanda Molina, treasurer and salesperson for Medical Surgical Safety Supply; Mike Johnston, president and safety coordinator for LaGloria Oil and and Cal Jones, secretary and safety coordinator for Rusk State Hospital. Founded in 1911, ASSE is the world's oldest and largest professional safety organization. From Staff Reports Church's teachers earn credentials Priscilla Tompkins, a teacher with Calvary Baptist Church's Mother's Day Out Preschool Program, and Bernice Martin, the director and child care coordinator of the program, have earned their Professional Administrator Credentials. This was achieved by completing a course of study offered by Texas Licensed Child Care Association and sociation of Child Care Admin- istrators.

The program is administered by ChildCare Management Services of and the credential is recognized by the Texas Department of Human Services. Freight line promotes Longviaw salesman FORT SMITH, Ark. Rick Stolz of Longview is one-of three ABF Freight System, Inc. sales representatives who have received performance-based promotions to senior account executives. Stolz brought 22 years transportation experience to ABF when he joined its Longview terminal as a sales representative in 1989, working in that capacity until his recent promotion to senior account executive.

His experience prior to ABF includes a range of positions frpm dock worker and city driver to sales representative andBranch manager. is a native of Tyler. Longview man wins boat in contest Moses Richardson of Long-view won a Bayliner boat by participating in a joint promotion between Bayliner and RC Cola. The promotion, called the RCBayliner Challenge, offers consumers the chance to "instantly win" a Capri through the purchase of RC products. Richardson won the Capri 1700 Bowrider.

The boat was rigged and delivered to Richardson by Ash-ton Wilkes of Shreveport, La. Bayliner Marine, headquartered in Arlington, is a division of US Marine, which is an affiliate of the Brunswick Corporation. Hurst joins asset management firm Jim P. Hurst has joined Fu-gittGodfrey Asset Management as vice president of marketing. The Longview native graduated from Longview High School in 1969.

He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Stephen F. Autin State University in 1973. Hurst is a licensed Realtor and is a candidate for the Certified Property Manager designation awarded by the Institute' of Real Estate Management. FugittGodfrey Asset Management is located in the Glover-Crim Building and specializes in commercial property management, leasing and sales. Local GMAC office salutos Cadillac The 27 men and women of General Motors Acceptance Corporation Longview joined a na- tionwide General Motors employee salute to the Cadillac Motor Car Division for receiving the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award from the U.S.

Department of Commerce. The award is the highest recognition of quality in American business and was won in intense competition among nearly 100 companies, according to a Commerce Department spokesman. Chamber honors two ambassadors Tamara Wink and Rita Wyatt have earned the title of "President's Club Ambassador" for signing up at least 12 new Longview Chamber of Commerce members, this year. Wink, who only became an Ambassador in November, also secured all 12 new memberships in the same month. She is employed with KTYL Radio as the Longview account executive and was formerly associated with the Pitney Bowes Co.

She has been active in volunteer work both with the view Community Center and the Longview Convention and Visitors Bureau. Wink and her husband have lived in Longview for more than two years. Wyatt, who has been employed as a marketing executive for KLMG TV Channel 51 in Longview for two and one-half years, was named Ambassador of the Month for March. Her volunteer work as a chamber Ambassador began in August 1989. She is originally from the Lubbock area where she attended Texas Tech University.

After moving from Lubbock, she began a career in sales in Houston. From Houston, Wink moved to Farmington Hills, where she continued her sales career until she and her family moved to Longview. Wyatt and her husband, Lan-dis, are the parents of one daughter, Heather, 15. They are members of White Oak Missionary Baptist Church. Meadow Pines promotes Whitson Charles Whitson, director of financial management at Meadow Pines Hospital, has been promoted to assistant administrator of finance.

"Mr. Whitson has been with Meadow Pines for two years and his high level of performance is directly related to his steady rise through our ranks," said 'James W. Moore, hospital administrator. Whitson's experience includes the implementation of policies and procedures in the business office and the conversion of accounting systems. BUSINESS CALENDAR unit in new Tampa, market.

Take-out components in freestanding restaurants contribute to sales increases." Tyler radio stations sign agreement Broadcasting Unlimited, licensee and operator of KNUE-FM 101.5 Radio in Tyler, is supplying a complete programming and advertising sales service to KISX-FM 107.3 of Tyler under the terms of an agreement with Tyler Broadcasting Inc. licensee of KISX. The agreement, effective Dec. 1 was announced by Don Cha-ney, president of Broadcasting Unlimited, who also announced he is vacating the general manager's position at KNUE to become full time president and CEO of Broadcasting Unlimited. Terry Cooper will replace Chaney as general manager at KNUE who will also act as manager of sales, marketing and programming of KISX with Gayle Marsh moving from account executive to sales manager of both operations.

Chaney said the agreement is similar to service arrangements currently effective at radio stations in other areas that share the same market. The agreement is permitted under the FCC rules providing the licensee has active control over the programming and commercial content of the station. KISX 107.3, serves listeners in TylerLongview and the retail trade area and special programming studios have been built in the Broadcasting Unlimited building, 3810 Brookside Drive in Tyler. "Having been employed by Meadow Pines' mother company, Healthcare International since 1988, he has extensive experience in health care finance, including having held the position of assistant controller at San Marcos Treatment Center in San Marcos," Moore said. Whitson earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting from Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos and became a Certified Public Accountant in 1984.

He and his wife, Sheila, have a son, Nicholas, 16 months old. Meadow Pines honors employee Karl Hubbard has earned the Meadow Pines Hospital Quarterly Honoree Award for the Fourth Quarter. Hubbard, a Longview native, has been with Meadow Pines since February 1988 and was recently promoted to housekeeping supervisor. "Karl Hubbard exemplifies the high standard of commitment, dedication and excellence which the Quarterly Honoree Award was designed to recognize," a hospital spokesman said. Luby's ranked 50th in listing of chains SAN ANTONIO Luby's Cafeterias, was ranked 50th in Restaurant Business listing of the Top 100 Restaurant Chains.

The Top 100 Restaurant Chains is a comprehensive report that includes 1989 sales and unit data and company profiles. The magazine cites in the profile on Luby's, "Some 13 new cafeterias were opened during fiscal 1990; 14 more units expected to open this coming year, including second Topics will include liability insurance, casualty insurance, workman's compensation and employer's insurance. The panel will include an insurance company representative, attorney and business representative. For more information, "call 757-3611. Jan.

18-21 -z WASHINGTON For 2 -tile third straight year, Atlanta's Georgia World Congress Center will host more than 60,000 builders and associates in housing-related business Jan. J8-21 for the 47th Annual ConventionExposition of the National Association of Home Builders." The Builders' Show has over 400,000 square feet of exhibit space to showcase more than 1,000 exhibitors' services and products, over 200 educational programs with more than JOO speakers on the schedule to keep builders on the front lines of today's building and business technology and a rapidy changing financial according to NAHB President Martin Perlman, a Houston builder. During the convention, NAHB will elect and install its officers for 1991. Jan. 6-12 THE WOODLANDS International School of Astroparticle Physics will be held Jan.

6-12 at the Houston Advance Research Center in The Woodlands' Research Forest, 27 miles north of downton Houston. Texas University physics professor Dimitri Nanopoulos will serve as director. The school the first of its stature on the topic to be held in the United States will bring together some of the world's top scientists to share their latest theories, experiments and discoveries with other researchers and their students from all branches of physics, according to Nanopoulos. The event is co-sponsored by HARC and the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory. For more information, call HARC at 713-367-1348.

Jan. 15 TYLER The Better Business Bureau of Central East Texas, Inc. will sponsor a seminar "Insurance Needs For Your Small Business" from p.m. Jan. 15 at the Regional Training Development Complex, Room 104, 1530 SSW Loop 323, Tyler.

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