Working Hard?

Two related stories about working hard in the U.S.: U.S. workers are granted less (and take less) vacation time than workers in other industrialized nations. And if that wasn't enough, changes to the overtime laws will eliminate overtime pay for many workers.

Working Hard?

[Tiro]

. . . Or hardly working?

Re:Working Hard?

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays!

headline

[Angron]

Kinda scary loading up slashdot at work and seeing a headline that sounds like it's scolding you for not working....

-A

Barking up the wrong tree

[Rylfaeth]

I think this is probably not the right crowd to be asking this question ... a ton of us tech types are unemployed, those that have jobs sit at work playing solitaire and the ones that both have a job and actually do it are far too busy to join in this crappy discussion :P
-Rylfaeth

"Salaried, Exempt"

[bryanp]

... is the official term. The standard joke at my place of employment is "Yeah, it means you're exempt from having a life."

Re:Democrats....Repubs

[Anonymous Coward]

Libertarian=you keel over dead because there's no laws preventing people from putting toxic sludge from your soda.

Don't worry, The Holy Market wil fix it! All shall be solved through the promotion of commerce! So hath Adam Smith written, so it shall be

Well...

[Faust7]

. . . Or hardly working?

If you're reading Slashdot, how is this even a question?

Re:Learned Professionals?

[mrpuffypants]

and if you want to give a kickback then call it a kickback, not a "Tax Cut"

Yeah!

[August_zero]

Think how much this will help the economy!

Overheads will be lower for almost all companies since overtime will be gone, so everything will be cheaper!

And even though you the consumer will have less money to spend on the finer things in life, it won't matter because you will be working 72 hours a week and will not have time to spend your money anyway! So you will be saving money, which according to old Ben, "a penny saved is a penny earned" so it will be like doubling your wages!

See! win-win situation!

Bad Data?

[peachpuff]

Check out the numbers for China (second lowest in terms of average time taken). Their average vacation time taken is exactly the same as the minimum amount that must be offered. Maybe someone made the mistake of collecting that data by asking the Chinese government.

HEY YOU!

[zulux]

WORK HARDER! Millions on welfare are depending on YOU!

(swiped from a bumper sticker)

Re:Learned Professionals?

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

Yeah, the rest of them are in the People's Republic of Cambridge!

Re:HEY YOU!

[smack_attack]

WORK HARDER! Millions on welfare are depending on YOU!

I didn't know there were that many corporations.

Re:Yeah!

[BrainInAJar]

"a penny saved is a penny earned"

You unamerican blasphemer! Don't you know that saving money hurts the economy? Now get out there and spend that cash! If you don't have any cash, get a loan, that helps the economy even more.

The fate of capitalism depends on you buying all the useless crap you can find (and don't need)! 3-blade razors and bottled water await you!

Re:Opposite in the US.

[s-orbital]

Where the hell do you guys work? InitTech? Why dont you just burn the damn place down?

Re:Wrong

[eidechse]

You're absolutely right. To date, voting in elections has proven to be the single most effective means of bringing about change.

Re:If you have the inspiration...

[frank_adrian314159]

I'm a little vauge in answering exactly what I sell for my own reasons, but it's a consulting service for the individual professional of a specific profession.

Wow! How did you get the numbers of all those call girls!

Retirement in the USA...

[Eric Damron]

Employee: Boss, I've been working here for thirty years. When can I retire?

Boss: That depends. When do you expect to die?

Re:If you have the inspiration...

[Threni]

So YOU'RE the bastard who writes all those `you can make $$$$ working from home` ads? :)