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IBM Responds to Overtime Lawsuits With 15% Salary Cut
bcmbyte writes "IBM in recent months has been hit with lawsuits filed on behalf of thousands of U.S. employees who claim the company illegally classified them as exempt from federal and state overtime statutes in order to avoid paying them extra whenever they worked more than 40 hours per week.
The good news for those workers is that IBM now plans to grant them so-called "non-exempt" status so they can collect overtime pay. The bad news: IBM will cut their base salaries by 15% to make up the difference."
No harm done -- the employees just have to keep doing regular overtime and they get the same salary they used to. If they do less, they get less money and if the boss deamnds more, they get more pay. Sounds fair to me.
Nobody forces anyone to work. No one is entitled to any particular salary.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
"By the symbols of the creator
I swear henceforth to be
A faithful servant of his most
Puissant archangel
The Prince Lucifer
Whom the creator designated as his regent
And Lord of this World
I deny Jesus Christ...the deciever
And I abjure the Christian faith
Holding in contempt all of it's works
As a being now possessed of a human body
In this world I swear to give my full
Allegiance to it's lawfull master,
To worship him our
Lord Satan and no other
In the name of Satan, the ruler of Earth
Open wide the gates of Hell
And come forth from the abyss
By these names: Satan, Leviathan,
Belial, Lucifer
I will kiss the goat
I swear to give my mind
My body and soul unreservedly
To the furtherance of our
Lord Satan designs
Do what thou wilt shall be the
Whole of the law
As it was at the beginning
Is now and ever shall be
World without end Amen"
- The Oath, Mercyful Fate
So you'd rather have employees hold a company hostage and bleed it of all it's money until the company goes out of business? If your are on salary, you aren't ENTITLED to overtime.
This isn't China, Comrade. If you don't like your job, you are free to quit and find another without being shot in the head.
That's life for the gutless slaves who refuse to stand up and organise and fight these fascist moterfuckers back.
Why computer workers haven't properly organised with a union is something I still don't understand. If you work for someone else: YOU'RE A SLAVE. So ORGANISE! If you employ others, you're a SLAVE OWNER so EXPECT ORGANISATION.
Why would I trade one tyrant, my boss, for another, the union leadership? If I don't like my boss, I can work somewhere else, with a union I am a slave to the whims of the slobbering horde. That sounds like a good plan.
I laughed at the weak who considered themselves good because they lacked claws.
Is someone making them work there? They're salaried workers, working in a reasonably high-paying field. Yea, there is stress, yea there are long hours...What's your point?
If they don't like the pay, they should do something else for a living.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
And this is exactly why it is silly to compare a discussion board running on MySQL to real enterprise system running on real enterprise database. In that env, people simply cannot tolerate disappearing records.