Comment Re:Salaried vs. Hourly (Score 3, Insightful) 78
Its rather sad that you have such a poor belief of your personal rights such that you are willing to agree with a broken system. I mean come on! Just because your father was foolish enough to give more hours then he was paid for, doesn't mean it was the right thing to do. Why don't you just go and give back 1/5th of your salary to your employer while your at it! These people suing for overtime are doing the Just and Right thing. They are owed every penny and then some for the work they have done. Its just to bad they took so long to realize it.
Look at it this way. You are hired under the terms of a 2000 man hour year. If you are worked 50 to 60 hours a week you are effectively giving your employer 25% to 50% of their money back in value of what you produce (or service). That is so very wrong, and its outrageous that people let businesses get away with it. Sure its your choice, but you are the greater fool for doing it. Do you honestly not think that you are really worth your salary? (I ask these questions not necessarily to the author of the post I am replying to, but to the world in general.)
It has been the place of business to always squeeze the most out of their employees that they can, and it is only because of our modern laws that employees are protected for fair treatment. Now mind I am not making any moral judgement calls on businesses or people for doing these things. People have the right to stand up and demand their worth and the future protection of that worth. Which, by the way, is what unions were originally intended for. Unfortunately unions today have a very bad rap, due to the presense of a lot of bad apples. But I'll tell you what, those union laborers get paid their worth - the worth they have demanded. Programmers, all, would be wise to learn what the unionized laborers have learned.
Look at it this way. You are hired under the terms of a 2000 man hour year. If you are worked 50 to 60 hours a week you are effectively giving your employer 25% to 50% of their money back in value of what you produce (or service). That is so very wrong, and its outrageous that people let businesses get away with it. Sure its your choice, but you are the greater fool for doing it. Do you honestly not think that you are really worth your salary? (I ask these questions not necessarily to the author of the post I am replying to, but to the world in general.)
It has been the place of business to always squeeze the most out of their employees that they can, and it is only because of our modern laws that employees are protected for fair treatment. Now mind I am not making any moral judgement calls on businesses or people for doing these things. People have the right to stand up and demand their worth and the future protection of that worth. Which, by the way, is what unions were originally intended for. Unfortunately unions today have a very bad rap, due to the presense of a lot of bad apples. But I'll tell you what, those union laborers get paid their worth - the worth they have demanded. Programmers, all, would be wise to learn what the unionized laborers have learned.
