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Takin' Care of Business and Working Paid Overtime
theodp writes "About 800 CA-based Siebel employees who held the job title 'software engineer' or 'senior software engineer' stand to pocket $27,000 each from the proceeds of Siebel's $27.5 settlement of an overtime dispute. And while IBM's 32,000 techies won't make out quite as well, they'll still divvy up $65M in OT pay that IBM's shelling out to settle a federal class action suit."
Used to work at a local radio for some absentee micromanagement owners in another state on salary. Just like an hourly employee...had to keep a time sheet of my hours. The reason was that the payroll department could keep track of our hours to make sure that you were working the 40 hours you were being paid for. Funny thing...even being on salary...there was a "rule" in the employee handbook that NO ONE would work over 40 hours a week without prior authorization from your supervisor. If you were required to do this...you either left early at another time...came in late or blew it off.
Not thinking this was "legal"...contacted the Department of Labor. Found out that even with having to keep a time sheet & rules on the book about no work over 40 hours...they said my job was exempt from overtime laws.
Another example of getting the royal shaft under Jr's tutelage. Screw the workers...just like he's screwed up the "police action" in Iraq.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. - Charles M. Schulz
fact: americans work an average of 300 more hours a year than the next hardest working 1st world country (Japan)
yes Greed is the primary factor here, but you people forget you own stock in the same companies that treat you like shit, you're supposed to be hte owners but you all think you're helpless and as long as you are an individual instead of an organized group you're right you are.
personally i barely make more than minimum wage, i routinely work overtime i get fucked out of and i'm not salaried, and yes i "have to" or it's instant homelessness and starvation, a $.25 federal minimum wage hike is a cruel joke and akin to spitting in the face of the overwhelming majority of the population (aka the poor, which i dare say, *MOST* of the people posting here are not).
americans are raised from birth told that their only value is as a cog in a corporate soul-grinder somewhere, and they better compete and beat out everyone else at all the fire-hoop jumping competitions or they have no futures.
so while our entire country runs on Greed, greed is really a front for Fear, most people are running around terrified 90% of the time, over terorrists, tax returns or that secret something the nightly news doesn't want to tell you about til you watch their commercial filled broadcasts; most americans just care about the next football game or idol contest so they can keep digging their heads deeper into the escapist sands.
life in america sucks and it's the predatory nature of capitalistic survivalism that permeates every cell of this decadent culture.
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