The 40 hour max contractor life

My job requires me to do two important things -- 1) produce a daily report, and 2) brief a general three times a week. It's not hard.

However, what throws on added layers of difficulty is that every supervisory echelon in-between has different ideas about what I should be talking about -- what the general needs to know.

Never mind what the general thinks or wants to know; in the military, the key to success is always knowing exactly what your boss wants. Asking for guidance is for chumps. Just stick to this format and script and you can't go wrong.

This is what we've spent the past two days meeting at 3:00 to discuss. And each of the last two days those meetings have caused me to stay later than my usual time. That's a problem for contractors who can't go over 40 hours a week, and whose start times are set by their bosses at 6:30.

So tomorrow I'll do my Friday brief as scheduled. But by tomorrow afternoon I'll have completed my 40 hours before the 3:00 meeting that's supposed to prepare us for the Monday morning brief.

I'll inform my boss of the problem, but the solution is clear. I'm not attending the 3:00 meeting.