12/7 and Overtime on a Salary?

over-timeout! asks: A company I work for (in the U.S.A.) had submitted a statement of work to a client, who waited for a month before signing the work order. The work order explicitly stated a timeline which would start from the time the order is signed. However, the client is insisting on the project being completed by a fixed date, as discussed with our company's management, instead of the deadline that starts from the signing of the work order. Although our company representatives tried to push back on the date, the client refused. Because the client is among our company's biggest customers, our company's management caved in and agreed to their deadlines. Management has told us meeting deadlines means that for the next month to six weeks all of the developers involved will have to work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. The contractors involved are going to get compensated by being paid by the hour. But us salaried employees are going to get nothing in return for trading in what's left of our life so someone else in the company above us can make money. Obviously this isn't fair, but what are the alternatives in this down economy, where jobs are hard to find?" A related articles on this subject discusses suing for overtime, and California residents should find this companion article pertinent, as well. What can you do when management agrees to a timeline and a workload that may make your job, as a programmer, difficult-to-impossible?

Comments

and you were expecting what?

[PhreakOfTime]

This is what happens when people with an absolute love for what they do go into a situation expecting everyone to see things the way they do. Bottom line is you joined a company whos ONLY purpose is to make money. They could give a shit that you find a deep sense of satisfaction in being able to do what you love for a living. It not a pleasant way to live, but you thought it was worth the good money and could deal with the circumstances, well the 'good-life' pendulum is swinging the other way, now what are you going to do?

I think there are other groups of people like this...oh yea, they are called TEACHERS! Now either face the music or not, but dont complain about it over and over again. Nobody else makes your choices for you, and your treating it like they are supposed to.

Maybe you will think twice next time you look down on the person with a smile on their face but who makes half as much as you...it seems they DO know something that you dont.

Mod me flamebait because it pisses you off that you cant change your life by yourself.

Re:Four more letters

[SweetAndSourJesus]

Firstly, I have never voted republican.

Secondly, the fact that I voted for the right party and lost is little consolation when I'm getting little "Private and Confidential" third notices in the mail.

Of course I'm voting to better my situation. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like I speak with the masses. It's apparent that this country is largely comprised of SUV-driving home-owning smiley happy fuckers that are all to content to live off my misery.

Either that, or people in my class aren't voting.

Either way: fuck!

Re:Law of diminishing returns.

[EnderWiggnz]

fucking protestant, or fundie xtian idiot.

how about "it is easier to fit a camel through the eye of a needle than to get a rich man into heaven".

fucknozzle