I blame this in part on the unions who quit being about worker's rights. And became rooster suckers for the Democrat party.
The fact that you can be written up and theoretically fired for being periodically a few minutes late while expected to stay hours late for the company. (Speaking of non-shift jobs, you're not affecting anyone, and you don't interact with customers).
If salaried means we work till the job is done, then well, if we finish early. We should be allowed to go home and be paid. No, companies want their cake and to eat it too.
The whole time and a half/over-time should be re-worked.
The way it should work is as follows.
Earn xx time minimum wage or less. Get time and a half over 40 hours.
Earn more than x time minimum wage, get standard time over 40 hours.
xx over minimum wage, pay must be an annual pay rate (ie: CEOs making $500K a year.)
I believe that the time and half vs exempt employees has created a caste of worker who is now forced to work for free. IT, salaried, then gets stuck working 50-60 hours or more.
Let's say an IT worker is salaried at $100,000 ($48/hr) for a 40 hour work week. But more often than not said IT worker is working 60 hours a week. They lost the other network engineer and the economy is too challenging to hire a replacement. Said IT worker's true salary is actually only $66,666. Or about 2/3 of their reported salary.
Even at 50 hours, it's an equiv to $38/hr, or $80K.
Meanwhile, the non-salaried worker with overtime who works 50 hours a week. Will earn $80K on a mere $28/hr pay rate. And a $100K on a mere $35/hr rate.
Because homeless people tend to have poor attendance records. And while minimum wage has been going up. American worker's wages in relation to buying power and value of the dollar have been continually moving downward.
100,000+ miles while talking on the cell = zero accidents.
ST: Original Series + 1st season TNG = zero accidents.
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Ironically, I did have to stop watching the other day. A mini-van was swerving all over the road. I followed the van across half the county waiting for the police to respond to my 9-1-1 call. Having commented that there could be children in the mini-van.
Flashing them every time they moved to the edge of the road or toward a car. Prevented about 6 accidents. Apparently, the bored police were uninterested in responding to the call and protecting the passengers of the weaving vehicle or the other cars on roads.
*sighs*
It's not about safety, it's about harvesting fines $$$ for the county.
The display screen in order to be safe must be directly in the driver's view. Otherwise it's extremely dangerous as it will draw the driver's eyes away from the road.
However, a small screen like an iPhone held directly in front of the driver's view is fairly innoculous. I've found that I still maintain a strong view of the road, and have full peripheal vision.
I found if I set the screen to the side of my view on the center console that it posed a significant risk.
(Give it a try, test for yourself. You may be surprised.)
In fact, from this experiment I have realized that all of our new automobiles with navigation systems are dangerous. They're designed wrong.
The navigation display should actually be on the wheel or the dash directly in front of the driver. This will improve safetly dramatically. (More akin to the use of a HUD display.)
So much is illegal these days.I keep getting fines for stupid stuff (e.g. I: window gets cracked and replaced, gets cracked again, natural disaster hits region, I fail to get my stickers replaced in the required 5 days. $110 fine. e.g. II: dumpster diving, get arrested.)
So I've decided. I want to do more illegal things. And hopefully someday, I'll be penalized for something that is actuall "wrong".
Our legal system loves to throw people in prison for victimless crimes. A friend's youth group member got threatened with a year in prison. His horrible crime? Got pulled over for expired registration. Immediately fixed the problem the very next day. Due to a computer glitch regarding his name. It never got reported properly. Then due to the same glitch he never received notice that his license was suspended. Nor received notice for a summons in court. And because the state's computer system was !@#$% up, the DA wanted to give this decent kid a year in prison.
Mind you, one of our company's employee's was recently robbed and shot by a man just released from prison. Ironically, man was just released from prison for armed robbery. He served 9 months (time-served) of a 10 year sentence.
Why is it America's legal system wants to throw good people in prison. And constantly releases the bad ones.
I am being inspired to become a criminal. They don't seem to be prosecuted as harshly.;-)
Essentially, what we're facing is more akin to "Other authors can't write and publish books because we've patented/copyrighted the concept of letters and words."
Or a carpenter can't build because we've got a patent on wood.
Futhermore, there should be a restriction in regards to the use of programming languages. Should a JavaScript function be patentable/copyrightable? One might argue that JavaScript itself provided the inherent ability to implement. And that a million monkeys typing randomly could have typed that same occurrence.
Furthermore, most software implementations are inherent in thought because they're related to real world problems. If I have to sort a bunch of names. That's a real world problem. Perhaps I've come up with an more efficient sorting sequence. But sorting is not a new invention.
Patents should really be reserved for truely novel invention and innovation. Copyrights should be reserved for artistic works and plagiarism. Methods, on an individual level should not be protected. Copyrights should mostly serve to prevent one from copying another's code as a whole and simply re-implementing it.
It should not protect against the use of wheels and levers.
Europe's largest IT company. And I've never even heard of them.
Imagine how much different the media world would have reacted if it read "HP or Apple" was going to cease using email?
Not trying to knock Europe. I was rather surprised when I re-read this post and it said Europe's largest IT company.
Seriously, there has to be a bigger European IT company out there, one that most people know of. I can't imagine Europe's largest is a company that has little name recognition?
This was done, because the studios were trying to devour the DVD business income in their negotiations for streaming content.
Hey you made $400 million, We want $200 million. But streaming only accounted for $40 million. So how do you keep the studios from digging into the pockets of the DVD side to gouge for streaming.
You split the company. Then the profits are held separately.
I'm of the opinion Democracy is broken. Representation is what's important. Our current system has given us a Congress where 90% are lawyers.
How does that represent the people?
Draft people to Congress in a similar manner to jury duty. They serve two years. Most won't want to server another. But then we'd have everything from CEOs to waitresses, farmers, doctors, mechanics, Union workers, students, retirees, etc.
Then we could elect a 100 Senators from the pool of representatives. They server a second 6 year term.
From that, we elect two Senators to server as President for 4 years. 2nd place becomes VP.
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It goes off-shore, because. .gov has made it easier from a tax basis.
I move business off-shore, move profits too. Then pay lower taxes in some 2nd world country.
Write it off as an expense in the U.S. taxes,and then pay no taxes (like GE)
Contrary to popular belief, some companies actually are generous.
That's not contrary to popular belief. Most people believe some companies are generous. It's just that we know most are NOT.
Are the millions of Americans who've been out of work. Or watch 1/2 their office get fired and be out of work for 2 years.
Seriously, have you tried hunting for a job in this market. Especially, if you're NOT in an IT mecca.
It sucks...
I'm salaried, but making under that....why not a law that says anything under xxx salary gets time and a half for overtime.
I blame this in part on the unions who quit being about worker's rights. And became rooster suckers for the Democrat party.
The fact that you can be written up and theoretically fired for being periodically a few minutes late while expected to stay hours late for the company. (Speaking of non-shift jobs, you're not affecting anyone, and you don't interact with customers).
If salaried means we work till the job is done, then well, if we finish early. We should be allowed to go home and be paid. No, companies want their cake and to eat it too.
The whole time and a half/over-time should be re-worked.
The way it should work is as follows.
Earn xx time minimum wage or less. Get time and a half over 40 hours.
Earn more than x time minimum wage, get standard time over 40 hours.
xx over minimum wage, pay must be an annual pay rate (ie: CEOs making $500K a year.)
You should try living in a liberal bastion such as Conn. or Mass.
I agree to some degree...
I believe that the time and half vs exempt employees has created a caste of worker who is now forced to work for free. IT, salaried, then gets stuck working 50-60 hours or more.
Let's say an IT worker is salaried at $100,000 ($48/hr) for a 40 hour work week. But more often than not said IT worker is working 60 hours a week. They lost the other network engineer and the economy is too challenging to hire a replacement. Said IT worker's true salary is actually only $66,666. Or about 2/3 of their reported salary.
Even at 50 hours, it's an equiv to $38/hr, or $80K.
Meanwhile, the non-salaried worker with overtime who works 50 hours a week. Will earn $80K on a mere $28/hr pay rate. And a $100K on a mere $35/hr rate.
True...
Because homeless people tend to have poor attendance records. And while minimum wage has been going up. American worker's wages in relation to buying power and value of the dollar have been continually moving downward.
Seriously,
How old are you? 67
McDonald's has to pay a full time worker $15,080
($7.25 min. wage * 40 hours * 52 weeks)
So I'd wager when you made $13K, you were either part time. Or this was a very long time ago. When you could buy a car for $6,000 instead of $20,000.
100,000+ miles while talking on the cell = zero accidents.
ST: Original Series + 1st season TNG = zero accidents.
---
Ironically, I did have to stop watching the other day. A mini-van was swerving all over the road. I followed the van across half the county waiting for the police to respond to my 9-1-1 call. Having commented that there could be children in the mini-van.
Flashing them every time they moved to the edge of the road or toward a car. Prevented about 6 accidents. Apparently, the bored police were uninterested in responding to the call and protecting the passengers of the weaving vehicle or the other cars on roads.
*sighs*
It's not about safety, it's about harvesting fines $$$ for the county.
Oh, well there is his problem.
The display screen in order to be safe must be directly in the driver's view. Otherwise it's extremely dangerous as it will draw the driver's eyes away from the road.
However, a small screen like an iPhone held directly in front of the driver's view is fairly innoculous. I've found that I still maintain a strong view of the road, and have full peripheal vision.
I found if I set the screen to the side of my view on the center console that it posed a significant risk.
(Give it a try, test for yourself. You may be surprised.)
In fact, from this experiment I have realized that all of our new automobiles with navigation systems are dangerous. They're designed wrong.
The navigation display should actually be on the wheel or the dash directly in front of the driver. This will improve safetly dramatically. (More akin to the use of a HUD display.)
True...
So much is illegal these days.I keep getting fines for stupid stuff (e.g. I: window gets cracked and replaced, gets cracked again, natural disaster hits region, I fail to get my stickers replaced in the required 5 days. $110 fine. e.g. II: dumpster diving, get arrested.)
So I've decided. I want to do more illegal things. And hopefully someday, I'll be penalized for something that is actuall "wrong".
Our legal system loves to throw people in prison for victimless crimes. A friend's youth group member got threatened with a year in prison. His horrible crime? Got pulled over for expired registration. Immediately fixed the problem the very next day. Due to a computer glitch regarding his name. It never got reported properly. Then due to the same glitch he never received notice that his license was suspended. Nor received notice for a summons in court. And because the state's computer system was !@#$% up, the DA wanted to give this decent kid a year in prison.
Mind you, one of our company's employee's was recently robbed and shot by a man just released from prison. Ironically, man was just released from prison for armed robbery. He served 9 months (time-served) of a 10 year sentence.
Why is it America's legal system wants to throw good people in prison. And constantly releases the bad ones.
I am being inspired to become a criminal. They don't seem to be prosecuted as harshly. ;-)
Sir, perhaps you should have gone to Walmart on Black Thanksgiving.
Those Kinect games were just about the most sought after items. Seriously, football is passe. Watch the action for the Kinect games at Walmart.
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Essentially, what we're facing is more akin to "Other authors can't write and publish books because we've patented/copyrighted the concept of letters and words."
Or a carpenter can't build because we've got a patent on wood.
Futhermore, there should be a restriction in regards to the use of programming languages. Should a JavaScript function be patentable/copyrightable? One might argue that JavaScript itself provided the inherent ability to implement. And that a million monkeys typing randomly could have typed that same occurrence.
Furthermore, most software implementations are inherent in thought because they're related to real world problems. If I have to sort a bunch of names. That's a real world problem. Perhaps I've come up with an more efficient sorting sequence. But sorting is not a new invention.
Patents should really be reserved for truely novel invention and innovation. Copyrights should be reserved for artistic works and plagiarism. Methods, on an individual level should not be protected. Copyrights should mostly serve to prevent one from copying another's code as a whole and simply re-implementing it.
It should not protect against the use of wheels and levers.
Europe's largest IT company. And I've never even heard of them.
Imagine how much different the media world would have reacted if it read "HP or Apple" was going to cease using email?
Not trying to knock Europe. I was rather surprised when I re-read this post and it said Europe's largest IT company.
Seriously, there has to be a bigger European IT company out there, one that most people know of. I can't imagine Europe's largest is a company that has little name recognition?
Who is really Europe's largest IT company?
I sit with my laptop on my lap WiFi'ing all the time. And I've got three children 4 and under.
Promises, promises...
What I'd give for a viable non-surgerical male birth control option.
This was done, because the studios were trying to devour the DVD business income in their negotiations for streaming content.
Hey you made $400 million, We want $200 million. But streaming only accounted for $40 million. So how do you keep the studios from digging into the pockets of the DVD side to gouge for streaming.
You split the company. Then the profits are held separately.
They just botched the explanation of why.
Just do what I do...
Watch Netflix during you 2-3 hour daily commuter drive. Seriously, watching old Star Trek re-runs is a lot easier than texting while driving.
You should try it sometime!
Agreed. 10% of all revenues should be put into a rainy day fund. Had this been done, we'd not be so hurt by the present economic conditions.
Why don't the Democrats do something simple.
Agree to a balanced budget. Agree to major cuts and elimination of fraud. In exchange for a tax which does directly toward paying the debt down.
I bet you most conservatives and Republicans would agree to new taxes under such an initiative.
Let me ask you this. Would you accept higher taxes in exchange for the following:
- Balanced Budget
- Tax to pay down the debt (not the annual deficit but the actual debt)
- 5% - 10% of all revenue placed in rainy day fund.
Just curious. (I'm a Libertarian, so I dislike both the Rep/Dem agendas. I hate taxes, but I'd pay more if those three things were established.)
That's cause you're only hearing your news from one side.
Democrats don't want to close their loop holes either. Neither party does. It's how they buy their votes.
Dems aren't budging at all. Your bias just causes you to only blame Republicans. I blame both.
Raise taxes, cut spending. BALANCE THE BUDGET!
I'm of the opinion Democracy is broken. Representation is what's important. Our current system has given us a Congress where 90% are lawyers.
How does that represent the people?
Draft people to Congress in a similar manner to jury duty. They serve two years. Most won't want to server another. But then we'd have everything from CEOs to waitresses, farmers, doctors, mechanics, Union workers, students, retirees, etc.
Then we could elect a 100 Senators from the pool of representatives. They server a second 6 year term.
From that, we elect two Senators to server as President for 4 years. 2nd place becomes VP.
How about this ticket then...
Republican Ticket
Newt Gingrich/Hillary Clinton
Democrat Ticket
Hillary Clinton/Newt Gingrich