I think SOME companies do, but not MOST. My company is a mix of entertainment 'biz' and high-tech. I work for a computer graphics studio. I used to work in LA for special effects studios and the overtime was a BIG BIG issue. Everyone got paid for it, (pending approval of your producer) including staff sys admins and software engineers.
My current employer in Japan is fairly flexible about work hours, core time is 11am to 5pm and you have to be there at this time and anything more is up to you.
However most Japanese companies still have crazy hours and commute times for Japanese are increasing as more people are making more money, they still can't afford housing 'in Tokyo' so they buy houses out in the outer suburbs or neighboring prefectures, its crazy here.I have some co-workers that takes them about 2 hours or MORE to get to work. My commute is about 50 minutes, but that's usually reading time on the train.
Since my entire career has been in the entertainment industry I don't work ANY overtime without some sort of compensation, either days off or over time pay. I love my work and I do the absolute best job to my ability and I'm very dedicated to the projects that I work on. However I'm not a sucker and I make sure I'm properly compensated for my work.
I think everyone should make sure they don't get screwed in the end, and are properly compensated either in bennies, overtime pay, stock options, , profit sharing or whatever, as long as your happy. The high-tech sector and other businesses rely so heavily on technology workers, that you don't have to put up with shit. Especially when your company is making cash hand over fist and a group of morons with 'executive' titles make obscene amounts of money and don't do anything.
Holy vauge shades of Multics. This reminds me of something I read about the Multics affair.
I (think) remember one (idea) application of Multics was to sell people terminals and then connect them to big central Multics computers and they could do all their email and applications or whatever. hmmm Maybe history DOES repeat itself. Well personaly, I would never sign up for something like that.. Gee pay by the hour to use M$ crap, I really want to do that.
Well I don't know about your company. We just picked up 3 quad pIII Xeon 500mhz servers. They will be serving 60 NT clients all doing high end CGI. Well as high end as you can get on NT! (Maya, Softimage, Shake 2.0) (wish those apps came on Linux) The servers are all VA Research boxes.
We picked several machines, due to lack of hard evidence of Intel hardware being reliable compared to Sun or SGI. All have gigabit ethernet nics too.
I hate benchmarks whether or not they are in favor of your favorite OS. They don't mean much. Only an idiot would purchase based on benchmark specs only without testing the equipment in their own environment.
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I think SOME companies do, but not MOST.
My company is a mix of entertainment 'biz' and high-tech. I work for a computer graphics studio. I used to work in LA for special effects studios and the overtime was a BIG BIG issue. Everyone got paid for it, (pending approval of your producer) including staff sys admins and software engineers.
My current employer in Japan is fairly flexible about work hours, core time is 11am to 5pm and you have to be there at this time and anything more is up to you.
However most Japanese companies still have crazy hours and commute times for Japanese are increasing as more people are making more money, they still can't afford housing 'in Tokyo' so they buy houses out in the outer suburbs or neighboring prefectures, its crazy here.I have some co-workers
that takes them about 2 hours or MORE to get
to work. My commute is about 50 minutes, but
that's usually reading time on the train.
Since my entire career has been in the entertainment industry I don't work ANY overtime
without some sort of compensation, either days
off or over time pay. I love my work and I
do the absolute best job to my ability and I'm
very dedicated to the projects that I work on.
However I'm not a sucker and I make sure I'm
properly compensated for my work.
I think everyone should make sure they don't get
screwed in the end, and are properly compensated
either in bennies, overtime pay, stock options,
, profit sharing or whatever, as long as your
happy. The high-tech sector and other businesses
rely so heavily on technology workers, that
you don't have to put up with shit. Especially
when your company is making cash hand over fist
and a group of morons with 'executive' titles
make obscene amounts of money and don't do
anything.
Holy vauge shades of Multics. This reminds me
of something I read about the Multics affair.
I (think) remember one (idea) application of Multics was to sell people terminals and
then connect them to big central Multics computers
and they could do all their email and applications or whatever. hmmm Maybe history DOES repeat
itself. Well personaly, I would never sign up
for something like that.. Gee pay by the hour
to use M$ crap, I really want to do that.
Well I don't know about your company. We just
picked up 3 quad pIII Xeon 500mhz servers. They will be
serving 60 NT clients all doing high end CGI. Well
as high end as you can get on NT! (Maya, Softimage, Shake 2.0) (wish those apps came on Linux) The servers are all VA Research boxes.
We picked several machines, due to lack of hard
evidence of Intel hardware being reliable
compared to Sun or SGI. All have gigabit ethernet
nics too.
I hate benchmarks whether or not they are in
favor of your favorite OS. They don't mean much.
Only an idiot would purchase based on
benchmark specs only without testing the equipment
in their own environment.
Bleah