Hmmm.... can you believe it, but I don't have anything like an web access apart from good ol' email at my desk/camping place.
I guess it forces me to come home after a day working behind a CRT (not a even a LCD flat panel, can you realize it ?:) ) to spend my night reading./ posts.
And I do like this 37.5 crap, that's more than enough time for me earning money, i must spend time to spend it too...
I'm as always impressed when I hear some (most) of you trans-atlantic people saying how long they work a day, and for how much. (like > is...)
I'm a fresh from college/high school with an IT diploma (that's 3 years more than mandatory public education (from 6 years old to 18)), and I've been working here in Belgium as an employee since September 2000 for a big $$$ international company.
I'm currently doing a cross-flavor job between pure u*ix admin (HP-UX mainly) and COTS (customer of the shelves (for the most fortunate who don't know, as if HP-UX was not a COTS:-)), like oracle, entrust pkica and netscape LDAP directory) installation and custom configuration.
I'm working and being paid in Belgium, roughly 700,000 BEF in-the-pocket-every-taxes-paid a year(~ 15,444 US$, 17,353 (euro), according to www.xe.com).
From a hours/day point of view it varies from -1h from the minimal I'm paid for,7h30 a day=37h30 a week (apparently the week of 35h isn't far, see France lesiglation(is this an english word ?) to sometime 11 hours a day, when people are short on schedule. (not my team, of course, we're not just mere coders:) (flame me, oh yes...)
I don't know if it pays like a similar job in the U.S. (or anywhere else...), but for me it's quite a bit of money.
To come to the point and from what I can read from my time-sheet , I've been working rougly 38h47.17min a week since September 2000.
I didn't claim compensation for supp. hours yet, which I'm lawfully should be able to claim. But as I'm starting my work day anywhere from 9am to 11h30am I don't plan to do it soon. (Note that in my contract I'm supposed to work from 8h30am-9h00am to 5h00pm-5h30pm.)
Off schedule hours should be paid 50% more between 6h30pm to 8h30am on weekdays and Saturday and 100% more on Sunday and public holydays.
Note also that I have 27 paid vacation days (100% salary) this year, to be taken between 1st Jan 2001 and 30 April 2002.
How does this compare to a similar job in other countries ?
I've got a problem with censorship alltogether. I fully agree that there need to be some limitation to what can be said/shown/heard/read/written, but my i feel that it's more essential to educate people.
I come to my point: if i were to see a neo-nazi site with extreme propaganda, it will not make me think that nazism is good by god sake. And i would not think so, because i was educated to think that way. People wise and with more experience than me have been kind enough to share their experience and knowledge with me, so that I could make up my mind about what is wrong and what is right.
So I think what is much more important than preventing people to access information is to teach team how to understand it, teach them to read between the lines. By experience I can say that I was, and I'm always, attracted by "things" I'm not supposed to experience/live/do, not because they are wrong (or right...) but because nobody ever took time to explain me what those "things" were about.
Knowledge is power,
Ignorance is a plague.
BTW: what's the problem with porn ? Children are all the time in contact with some degree of sexuality. Adult's answer: it's about love... nope, sex is about reproduction instinct, and sometimes is accompanied with love and such high rated feeling. But children, and even most of grown men and women out there should make the distinction between what's reality (mother and father loving each other (or not anymore) for a lot of other of reason than sex) and fiction (porn actors fucking 24/24 7/7 for... money)... maybe confronting children with hardcore porn early and explaining that it is just a fiction and not a goal to achieve could spare them visits to sexologist later...
if sexologists or porn actors want to reply or give advice, we'll sure be glad to ear your opinion:-)
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Hmmm.... can you believe it, but I don't have anything like an web access apart from good ol' email at my desk/camping place.
I guess it forces me to come home after a day working behind a CRT (not a even a LCD flat panel, can you realize it ? :) ) to spend my night reading ./ posts.
And I do like this 37.5 crap, that's more than enough time for me earning money, i must spend time to spend it too...I'm as always impressed when I hear some (most) of you trans-atlantic people saying how long they work a day, and for how much. (like > is ...)
I'm a fresh from college/high school with an IT diploma (that's 3 years more than mandatory public education (from 6 years old to 18)), and I've been working here in Belgium as an employee since September 2000 for a big $$$ international company.I'm currently doing a cross-flavor job between pure u*ix admin (HP-UX mainly) and COTS (customer of the shelves (for the most fortunate who don't know, as if HP-UX was not a COTS :-)), like oracle, entrust pkica and netscape LDAP directory) installation and custom configuration.
I'm working and being paid in Belgium, roughly 700,000 BEF in-the-pocket-every-taxes-paid a year(~ 15,444 US$, 17,353 (euro), according to www.xe.com).From a hours/day point of view it varies from -1h from the minimal I'm paid for ,7h30 a day=37h30 a week (apparently the week of 35h isn't far, see France lesiglation(is this an english word ?) to sometime 11 hours a day, when people are short on schedule. (not my team, of course, we're not just mere coders :) (flame me, oh yes ...)
I don't know if it pays like a similar job in the U.S. (or anywhere else...), but for me it's quite a bit of money.
To come to the point and from what I can read from my time-sheet , I've been working rougly 38h47.17min a week since September 2000.
I didn't claim compensation for supp. hours yet, which I'm lawfully should be able to claim. But as I'm starting my work day anywhere from 9am to 11h30am I don't plan to do it soon. (Note that in my contract I'm supposed to work from 8h30am-9h00am to 5h00pm-5h30pm.)
Off schedule hours should be paid 50% more between 6h30pm to 8h30am on weekdays and Saturday and 100% more on Sunday and public holydays.
Note also that I have 27 paid vacation days (100% salary) this year, to be taken between 1st Jan 2001 and 30 April 2002.
How does this compare to a similar job in other countries ?
I've got a problem with censorship alltogether. I fully agree that there need to be some limitation to what can be said/shown/heard/read/written, but my i feel that it's more essential to educate people. I come to my point: if i were to see a neo-nazi site with extreme propaganda, it will not make me think that nazism is good by god sake. And i would not think so, because i was educated to think that way. People wise and with more experience than me have been kind enough to share their experience and knowledge with me, so that I could make up my mind about what is wrong and what is right. So I think what is much more important than preventing people to access information is to teach team how to understand it, teach them to read between the lines. By experience I can say that I was, and I'm always, attracted by "things" I'm not supposed to experience/live/do, not because they are wrong (or right ...) but because nobody ever took time to explain me what those "things" were about.
Knowledge is power,
Ignorance is a plague.
BTW: what's the problem with porn ? Children are all the time in contact with some degree of sexuality. Adult's answer: it's about love ... nope, sex is about reproduction instinct, and sometimes is accompanied with love and such high rated feeling. But children, and even most of grown men and women out there should make the distinction between what's reality (mother and father loving each other (or not anymore) for a lot of other of reason than sex) and fiction (porn actors fucking 24/24 7/7 for ... money) ... maybe confronting children with hardcore porn early and explaining that it is just a fiction and not a goal to achieve could spare them visits to sexologist later ...
if sexologists or porn actors want to reply or give advice, we'll sure be glad to ear your opinion :-)