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Comment Re:Yes they are feasible. (Score 1) 997

Yup. If I get through this 7 months, I get 6-8 years of job security with reasonable hours again.

You already assured them you don't need to have your time or plans respected or to be treated like a human. I am baffled at the idea they would even imagine an obligation to you.

The correct way to compensate people for unpaid overtime periods is equivalent periods of fewer hours. That's what salary is supposed to mean. You speak as though it is a privilege working "only normal hours."

Comment Re:More work deserves more compensation (Score 1) 997

I've worked where this actually was the attitude, especially the "Yes, boss, anything you say, boss!" expectation, and it is truly a pervasive and debilitating disease. It is wrong beyond words and no one should tolerate it or let their effort support the business and finances of those that maintain it.

It's amazing that it's 2011 and IT people are still afraid to figure out how to implement a sufficiently honest union.

As for the OP, your employer buys your time and effort from you. He asking you to let him buy it with "Wah, but I *really* want to be profitable already!" Head over to GameStop and see how many PS3 games you can get for "My boss wants profitability to be easier."

Comment Re:This is abstincence vs. harm reduction (Score 1) 790

I would think that that is much more a Catholic doctrine, a religious group whom Puritans thought were more or less satanic.

You've forgotten the actual background: Puritans came from the Church. They thought the Catholics were bad because they were too loose and immoral. So, yes, that can be Catholic and Puritan doctrine, with the Puritans being the absurdly hyperbolic version. They are called Puritans because they wanted to "purify" the church. They were profoundly annoying.

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US Grants Home Schooling German Family Political Asylum 1324

A US judge has granted political asylum to a family who said they fled Germany to avoid persecution for home schooling their children. Uwe Romeike and his wife, Hannelore, moved to Tennessee after German authorities fined them for keeping their children out of school and sent police to escort them to classes. Mike Connelly, attorney for the Home School Legal Defence Association, argued the case. He says, "Home schoolers in Germany are a particular social group, which is one of the protected grounds under the asylum law. This judge looked at the evidence, he heard their testimony, and he felt that the way Germany is treating home schoolers is wrong. The rights being violated here are basic human rights."

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