hourly. A whole new set of rules applied, but they were now able to get paid for all the overtime they were working plus back overtime for the 2 years before. It's possible that some people that worked a ton of overtime were paid $100k?
When he finally got here he was a VERY good employee. It was just hard being caught short staffed all the time wondering what time he would show up. It was affecting the rest of the team pretty severely.