Yes, and in sane countries salaried positions had the union negotiate the max number of hours per week, too.
I haven't worked overtime in over a decade because my employment contracts prohibits me from working over 40 hours a week. Fortune 500 companies and the government don't want to pay overtime at my rate.
I think you just gave management the list of who to fire first, working for old media it isn't like you are going to make it to retirement working for a newspaper. Poor job choice. Poor-er decision to paint a target on your back.
What make you think that I'm associated with "old media" in general and newspapers in particular? Those are two industries that I never worked in.
Find a different job, give notice, at the exit interview tell them how great they are so they will give you a great reference.
I've been a contractor for 20+ years. The trend among Fortune 500 companies for the last 20+ years is to hire more contractors. I've gotten great references because I'm the guy who gets called in to clean up the messes left behind by full-time employees or contractors.
In my line of work, contractors don't get "company" benefits and are the first to go when business slows down, but unlike us "first class citizens" with 401k match and benefits, they get to charge by the hour whereas we are salaried.
I never work directly for the clients. I work as an employee for a contracting agency that provides a full benefit package to stay competitive in the labor market. I'm usually the "contractor" that the company brings in after they fire all the full-time staff members to clean up the mess.
The person in charge of you is your boss, and tells you what to do.
Unless you're a contractor. Your boss can direct your work but they can't tell you what to do. Otherwise, you're an employee and the employer has deliberately misclassified you to commit tax fraud.
What we have is a new generation that:
- believes they are ENTITLED to have what they want
- has never been told "no" by their parents
- believes that rock n' roll, sex and drugs can effect change
To satisfy them they'd have to throw overboard the more moderate Republicans and the bill would still have gone down.
The moderate Republicans already left in the last eight years. Only the extremists remain. A so called moderate today is just someone who is a shade less extremist than the next guy.
Oracle doesn't have the same cachet as it used to have in the dot com run up. I had a roommate who was so proud that he owned a share of Oracle at $475 (IIRC). Never understood why that floated his boat. For that much money, I could buy a cheaper stock that paid out dividends.
The Y2K bug didn't fizzle in the sense you think it did. It was put to rest because a lot of companies spent a lot of money fixing their systems. Fear and the bottom line more or less guaranteed the worst would not happen.
Windows ME (Millennium Edition) was a bigger end of the world event for video game testers, lacking hardware support for most video games. Many video game companies boycotted ME. Microsoft came out with Windows 98 SE (Second Edition).
The decade that came after the Y2K bug fizzled out and the Rapture didn't happen. As a video game tester, Y2K was a total non-event. As a Christian, the church founder got kicked out because the Rapture didn't happen and no one wanted to put up with him for another 30 years (the message changed from "being faithful to the end" to "being faithful to the end of your lifetime"). Fun times.
Don't worry, Windows 10 is giving you plenty of work.
My job has Windows 8 in test for tablets and Windows 10 for desktop. No ETA on production rollout. The powers to be might drop Windows 8 and use Windows 10 for tablets. Meanwhile, Windows 7 64-bit rollout is completed and Windows 7 32-bit is history. No rush to upgrade to Windows 10.
Not every day that I read on Slashdot to find out that Oracle is planning to buy the parent company I work for indirectly via subcontractor. This should be fun.:/
You're getting fleeced for $50k while 'enjoying' an hour commute.
My one-hour commute takes me directly from the doorstep of my apartment to the doorstep of my job.
I mean, have fun getting literally nothing done financially, AND YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A CAR!!!
I save 20% of my income for savings, brokerage and retirment. If I needed a car, I could pay cash for a used car or drive off the lot with a 2.24% loan from my credit union.
Please reflect on your decisions and look to other cities where you can make the same money with a lower cost of living and you'd be able to own a car.
Last car died with blown head gasket and broken piston six months after I replaced the brakes and tires. The car before that died from a blown alternator six weeks after replacing the fuel regulator. Since my current job has a convenient commute, I'm in no hurry to get another car.
50K is considered poverty level by the county (for an individual) in that area.
You have to work 20 hours or less at minimum wage to qualify for any kind of government assistance.
If they were paying market rate the rent is closer to 2500/mo.
Market rate for my studio apartment in San Jose is $1750. The funny thing is that the 50-year-old apartment complex I live in charges the same "luxury" rate as the new apartment complex down the street. When I first moved in nearly 12 years ago, it looked like a 1960's housing project and you could sniff out 20 different varieties of pot smoke.
Also starting wage for IT is closer to 120k in the area (at the bottom end) and 160k median so I hope you have some amazing benefits...
The nation-wide project I'm working on pays the same $50K+ to senior admins and $80K+ for engineers. Doesn't matter if you live in San Francisco, New York City or Jerkwater USA. Since I don't work directly for the prime contractor, my subcontractor is far more generous. I got an extra month of pay as a Christmas bonus.
Where are you doing IT is Palo Alto, Frys?
Government IT with responsibility for 80,000+ workstations in the Western US.
Assuming people have enough for ten years then by the 2030s late 60s plus ten years, plus 20 years is late 90s, and it's not likely that life expectancy will have increased that much in that time span.
My father retired at 59.5-years-old because his older brothers all kicked the bucket at 60. He lived 15 years into retirement. Fortunately, he had a pension and Social Security.
He spent his pension, saved his Social Security. After he died, all his bills and his funeral were paid out of his savings account. You can't rule what medical advances will keep people alive longer.
Go buy a Bronze policy via the Healthcare.gov exchange and try again...
That would be $350 per month the last time I checked it on the CA exchange. I also don't qualify for subsidies because I make too much money.
Saying everyone has insurance they can't find a doctor for and can't afford to pay for the coverage anyway is a lie while the health insurance companies laugh to the bank...
Slashdot Mirror
Designed with security from the ground up! Right?
CORRECTION: "No one ever got fired for buying Cisco."
Meh... Skinny vanilla latte haven't kicked in yet.
"No ever got fired for buying Cisco."
Yes, and in sane countries salaried positions had the union negotiate the max number of hours per week, too.
I haven't worked overtime in over a decade because my employment contracts prohibits me from working over 40 hours a week. Fortune 500 companies and the government don't want to pay overtime at my rate.
I think you just gave management the list of who to fire first, working for old media it isn't like you are going to make it to retirement working for a newspaper. Poor job choice. Poor-er decision to paint a target on your back.
What make you think that I'm associated with "old media" in general and newspapers in particular? Those are two industries that I never worked in.
Find a different job, give notice, at the exit interview tell them how great they are so they will give you a great reference.
I've been a contractor for 20+ years. The trend among Fortune 500 companies for the last 20+ years is to hire more contractors. I've gotten great references because I'm the guy who gets called in to clean up the messes left behind by full-time employees or contractors.
Uhuh, go tell that to the Chinese in Shenzhen Foxconn - all 500 000 of them.
That's there, not here.
In my line of work, contractors don't get "company" benefits and are the first to go when business slows down, but unlike us "first class citizens" with 401k match and benefits, they get to charge by the hour whereas we are salaried.
I never work directly for the clients. I work as an employee for a contracting agency that provides a full benefit package to stay competitive in the labor market. I'm usually the "contractor" that the company brings in after they fire all the full-time staff members to clean up the mess.
Where I am they treat contractors exactly the same as employees, except they get a bit extra money rather then health benefits.
Since I work for contracting agencies, I get the extra money and a full benefit package.
The person in charge of you is your boss, and tells you what to do.
Unless you're a contractor. Your boss can direct your work but they can't tell you what to do. Otherwise, you're an employee and the employer has deliberately misclassified you to commit tax fraud.
What we have is a new generation that:
- believes they are ENTITLED to have what they want
- has never been told "no" by their parents
- believes that rock n' roll, sex and drugs can effect change
FTFY
Do you realize what a crazy idea that is?
"Why climb the corporate ladder when you can own it?" — Rich Dad, Poor Dad
To satisfy them they'd have to throw overboard the more moderate Republicans and the bill would still have gone down.
The moderate Republicans already left in the last eight years. Only the extremists remain. A so called moderate today is just someone who is a shade less extremist than the next guy.
Oracle doesn't have the same cachet as it used to have in the dot com run up. I had a roommate who was so proud that he owned a share of Oracle at $475 (IIRC). Never understood why that floated his boat. For that much money, I could buy a cheaper stock that paid out dividends.
The Y2K bug didn't fizzle in the sense you think it did. It was put to rest because a lot of companies spent a lot of money fixing their systems. Fear and the bottom line more or less guaranteed the worst would not happen.
Windows ME (Millennium Edition) was a bigger end of the world event for video game testers, lacking hardware support for most video games. Many video game companies boycotted ME. Microsoft came out with Windows 98 SE (Second Edition).
The decade that came after the Y2K bug fizzled out and the Rapture didn't happen. As a video game tester, Y2K was a total non-event. As a Christian, the church founder got kicked out because the Rapture didn't happen and no one wanted to put up with him for another 30 years (the message changed from "being faithful to the end" to "being faithful to the end of your lifetime"). Fun times.
Don't worry, Windows 10 is giving you plenty of work.
My job has Windows 8 in test for tablets and Windows 10 for desktop. No ETA on production rollout. The powers to be might drop Windows 8 and use Windows 10 for tablets. Meanwhile, Windows 7 64-bit rollout is completed and Windows 7 32-bit is history. No rush to upgrade to Windows 10.
Not every day that I read on Slashdot to find out that Oracle is planning to buy the parent company I work for indirectly via subcontractor. This should be fun. :/
After Microsoft in general and Windows in particular, fixing Adobe in general and Flash in particular was my bread and butter for the last 20 years.
You're getting fleeced for $50k while 'enjoying' an hour commute.
My one-hour commute takes me directly from the doorstep of my apartment to the doorstep of my job.
I mean, have fun getting literally nothing done financially, AND YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE A CAR!!!
I save 20% of my income for savings, brokerage and retirment. If I needed a car, I could pay cash for a used car or drive off the lot with a 2.24% loan from my credit union.
Please reflect on your decisions and look to other cities where you can make the same money with a lower cost of living and you'd be able to own a car.
Last car died with blown head gasket and broken piston six months after I replaced the brakes and tires. The car before that died from a blown alternator six weeks after replacing the fuel regulator. Since my current job has a convenient commute, I'm in no hurry to get another car.
50K is considered poverty level by the county (for an individual) in that area.
You have to work 20 hours or less at minimum wage to qualify for any kind of government assistance.
If they were paying market rate the rent is closer to 2500/mo.
Market rate for my studio apartment in San Jose is $1750. The funny thing is that the 50-year-old apartment complex I live in charges the same "luxury" rate as the new apartment complex down the street. When I first moved in nearly 12 years ago, it looked like a 1960's housing project and you could sniff out 20 different varieties of pot smoke.
Also starting wage for IT is closer to 120k in the area (at the bottom end) and 160k median so I hope you have some amazing benefits ...
The nation-wide project I'm working on pays the same $50K+ to senior admins and $80K+ for engineers. Doesn't matter if you live in San Francisco, New York City or Jerkwater USA. Since I don't work directly for the prime contractor, my subcontractor is far more generous. I got an extra month of pay as a Christmas bonus.
Where are you doing IT is Palo Alto, Frys?
Government IT with responsibility for 80,000+ workstations in the Western US.
Assuming people have enough for ten years then by the 2030s late 60s plus ten years, plus 20 years is late 90s, and it's not likely that life expectancy will have increased that much in that time span.
My father retired at 59.5-years-old because his older brothers all kicked the bucket at 60. He lived 15 years into retirement. Fortunately, he had a pension and Social Security. He spent his pension, saved his Social Security. After he died, all his bills and his funeral were paid out of his savings account. You can't rule what medical advances will keep people alive longer.
Pay no attention to the asshat AC who claimed that I threatened to shoot him with a named account and linked to my my homepage. How stupid is that?
Then he threatens to shoot you once you call him out on it.
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Don't threaten to shoot me again!
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Go buy a Bronze policy via the Healthcare.gov exchange and try again...
That would be $350 per month the last time I checked it on the CA exchange. I also don't qualify for subsidies because I make too much money.
Saying everyone has insurance they can't find a doctor for and can't afford to pay for the coverage anyway is a lie while the health insurance companies laugh to the bank...
I had that problem before ObamaCare ever existed.