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Working Hard?
Two related stories about working hard in the U.S.: U.S. workers are granted less (and take less) vacation time than workers in other industrialized nations. And if that wasn't enough, changes to the overtime laws will eliminate overtime pay for many workers.
Kinda scary loading up slashdot at work and seeing a headline that sounds like it's scolding you for not working....
-A
I think this is probably not the right crowd to be asking this question ... a ton of us tech types are unemployed, those that have jobs sit at work playing solitaire and the ones that both have a job and actually do it are far too busy to join in this crappy discussion :P
-Rylfaeth
... is the official term. The standard joke at my place of employment is "Yeah, it means you're exempt from having a life."
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." Col. Jeff Cooper
Libertarian=you keel over dead because there's no laws preventing people from putting toxic sludge from your soda.
Don't worry, The Holy Market wil fix it! All shall be solved through the promotion of commerce! So hath Adam Smith written, so it shall be
. . . Or hardly working?
If you're reading Slashdot, how is this even a question?
The coolest voice ever.
and if you want to give a kickback then call it a kickback, not a "Tax Cut"
Think how much this will help the economy!
Overheads will be lower for almost all companies since overtime will be gone, so everything will be cheaper!
And even though you the consumer will have less money to spend on the finer things in life, it won't matter because you will be working 72 hours a week and will not have time to spend your money anyway! So you will be saving money, which according to old Ben, "a penny saved is a penny earned" so it will be like doubling your wages!
See! win-win situation!
On Wall Street they say "buy low, sell high" On the pad we say, "buy high, sell high" Isn't that somehow better?
Check out the numbers for China (second lowest in terms of average time taken). Their average vacation time taken is exactly the same as the minimum amount that must be offered. Maybe someone made the mistake of collecting that data by asking the Chinese government.
-- . . ramblin' . . .
WORK HARDER! Millions on welfare are depending on YOU!
(swiped from a bumper sticker)
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Yeah, the rest of them are in the People's Republic of Cambridge!
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Where the hell do you guys work? InitTech? Why dont you just burn the damn place down?
Patent: from Latin patere, to be open
You're absolutely right. To date, voting in elections has proven to be the single most effective means of bringing about change.
Wow! How did you get the numbers of all those call girls!
That is all.
Employee: Boss, I've been working here for thirty years. When can I retire?
Boss: That depends. When do you expect to die?
The race isn't always to the swift... but that's the way to bet!
So YOU'RE the bastard who writes all those `you can make $$$$ working from home` ads? :)