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Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots?
An anonymous reader notes a posting up at a law blog with the provocative title Does Your Boss Have to Pay You While You Wait for Vista to Boot Up?. (Provocative because Vista doesn't boot more slowly than anything else, necessarily, as one commenter points out.) The National Law Journal article behind the post requires subscription. Quoting: "Lawyers are noting a new type of lawsuit, in which employees are suing over time spent booting [up] their computers. ... During the past year, several companies, including AT&T Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Cigna Corp., have been hit with lawsuits in which employees claimed that they were not paid for the 15- to 30-minute task of booting their computers at the start of each day and logging out at the end. Add those minutes up over a week, and hourly employees are losing some serious pay, argues plaintiffs' lawyer Mark Thierman, a Las Vegas solo practitioner who has filed a handful of computer-booting lawsuits in recent years. ... [A] management-side attorney... who is defending a half-dozen employers in computer-booting lawsuits... believes that, in most cases, computer booting does not warrant being called work."
Which 486 are they using, the 50 or 66 MHz? The faster clock of the 66 may seem like a win, but the 50 MHz version has the faster bus speed.
... also, I can kill you with my brain.
I didn't know you could boot Vista on a PII 233mHz 64mb RAM PC...
Seeing as the last big company I worked for used IE6 for "security reasons", I don't think they know how to configure auto-boot.
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
...or have sex while the computer boots
Actually I had sex while on conference calls a few times. Thank god for mute, both for my sake and for the sake of coworkers. My ex was a screamer. Good memories, I tell you.
XKCD 303: Compiling
George Jetson was paid the whole day just to press a button to start the plant in the morning and shut it down before he went home. Same thing.
If a fictional cartoon character from the future can get paid for that, then I don't see why I can't be too.
Conservation of angular momentum makes the world go round.
if you gave us their IP range and a favorite website of one of the workers, I'm sure we could configure it for for them.
The ______ Agenda
or if you wanna be a super huge gaping asshole, you can murder their children and bask in the lamentation of their mothers.
Erm.... Apple?
Call me old fashion....
Shuddup, a-line flares! You ain't nothin' but a lime green tank-top!
"Three eyes are better than one" -- Lieutenant Columbo
I wholeheartedly endorse your support your proposition to start a prostitutes union. I'm sure the women are sick of having to give freebies to the pimps.
I don't think the Pimp's Union will stand for that.
"Was it a millionaire who said 'Imagine No Posessions?'" -- Elvis Costello
Same goes for me here in the UK. If something were to happen to me while at work or while *travelling* to/from work, my next of kin get a rather large payout. Er...hang on, gotta go check the brakes on my car...
"...So I hung back and lurked. For 18 months. Can't beat a good old-fashioned lurking."
if you wanna be a super huge gaping asshole
There's this website you might have heard of...