"So if a plumber, trashman, electrician, or a autoworker works my hours, and get paid over time. He gets $11,650 more a year. Without a college degree, and probably a hell of a lot less stress."
Right on- someone actually does the math!
My buddy and I figured out (on my first job out of school) that working 90 hours/week on 40 hours salary (but the 50 hours over WAS billed to the government, via a cool trick known as "total-time-accounting"), we literally would make more money working those same hours at McDonalds, if we had been paid straight hours.
The name of the company is BTG. Ed Bersoff, the President, said it did not stand for Bersoff Technical Group. He's right. It stood for Bilk the Government.
NOW, the same companies are begging for an increase in H-1 Visa's because of the "Labor Shortage". Companies like the one I used to work for ( San Diego's biggest employer). That's funny. Didn't this company just lay off a couple of thousand employees? But now it's trying to tell the Feds that it's having a hard time _finding_ employees, and therefore wants Congress to increase the allowed Visa's so they can get more cheap labor.
Oh come off it with the altruistic "we just do it for the fun" melarchy.
Tech workers are slaves to the myth that if you work real hard you'll be rich one day. It's for the money, not for the fun. If you think otherwise you're bullsh!tting yourself, too.
In reality (you know, statistically speaking, using some of the math we learned in school), you'll have better luck with the lottery than you'll ever have of striking it big. And if you think working 80 hours a week and getting fat is fun, well, we don't even want to go there...
*Average* executive compensation in the valley was up 26% last year alone. Average wages were NOT.
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A previous poster writes:
"So if a plumber, trashman, electrician, or
a autoworker works my hours, and get paid over time. He gets $11,650 more a year. Without a college degree, and probably a hell of a lot less stress."
Right on- someone actually does the math!
My buddy and I figured out (on my first job out of school) that working 90 hours/week on 40 hours salary (but the 50 hours over WAS billed to the government, via a cool trick known as "total-time-accounting"), we literally would make more money working those same hours at McDonalds, if we had been paid straight hours.
The name of the company is BTG. Ed Bersoff, the President, said it did not stand for Bersoff Technical Group. He's right. It stood for Bilk the Government.
NOW, the same companies are begging for an increase in H-1 Visa's because of the "Labor Shortage". Companies like the one I used to work for ( San Diego's biggest employer). That's funny. Didn't this company just lay off a couple of thousand employees? But now it's trying to tell the Feds that it's having a hard time _finding_ employees, and therefore wants Congress to increase the allowed Visa's so they can get more cheap labor.
You do the math.
Oh come off it with the altruistic "we just do it for the fun" melarchy.
Tech workers are slaves to the myth that if you work real hard you'll be rich one day. It's for the money, not for the fun. If you think otherwise you're bullsh!tting yourself, too.
In reality (you know, statistically speaking, using some of the math we learned in school), you'll have better luck with the lottery than you'll ever have of striking it big. And if you think working 80 hours a week and getting fat is fun, well, we don't even want to go there...
*Average* executive compensation in the valley was up 26% last year alone. Average wages were NOT.
Snap out of it.