I just spent several years working for a large shipping firm in Holland, not in the IT department.
Our staff were (I just left) all salaried. On top of their basic salary was an extra 23% which was to cover 1.5hrs overtime per day. Any overtime they did in addition to that was paid at double whatever their hourly rate was calculated to be. Not to mention the extra holidays mandated by law for working over 35hrs/week.
I would just like to say, your post is utter bollocks.
I bought a Mac last week for the first time in my life, after using Windows since 3.11 and abhorring everyone who turns Macs into some kind of magical entity.
And did everything "just work"? Yes, I can assure you it did.
Speaking as a person who has just in the last two weeks migrated to OS X from Windows (I had used Windows since 3.11) and hitherto had little prior experience of OS X, I can definitely attest to the statement "it just works."
I shan't go back to WIndows, and I most definitely won't be using Linux on the desktop again (each time was a painful experience).
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I just spent several years working for a large shipping firm in Holland, not in the IT department.
Our staff were (I just left) all salaried. On top of their basic salary was an extra 23% which was to cover 1.5hrs overtime per day. Any overtime they did in addition to that was paid at double whatever their hourly rate was calculated to be. Not to mention the extra holidays mandated by law for working over 35hrs/week.
Nobody in that division was in a union.
I only use Google for my email, nevertheless I still run nightly backups of everything in my Gmail account, to my server.
I use "Offlineimap". You might wish to look into it; I highly recommend it.
Also, there are no seatback pockets, no window shades, and the seats don't even recline! I flew them. Once. Never again.
I would just like to say, your post is utter bollocks. I bought a Mac last week for the first time in my life, after using Windows since 3.11 and abhorring everyone who turns Macs into some kind of magical entity. And did everything "just work"? Yes, I can assure you it did.
Speaking as a person who has just in the last two weeks migrated to OS X from Windows (I had used Windows since 3.11) and hitherto had little prior experience of OS X, I can definitely attest to the statement "it just works." I shan't go back to WIndows, and I most definitely won't be using Linux on the desktop again (each time was a painful experience).