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Gilligan <kalanianaoleus@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<MPG.16b54d221801d1a39896e8@news-server.hawaii.rr.com>...
> In article <u4mbrb9jrr6r60@corp.supernews.com>, shchartudi@yahoo.com 
> says...
> > I'm in the computer field. I think its time the fed. govt stepped in and
> > regulated all of this free labor companies are getting. 50, 60, sometimes 70
> > hour weeks or more. All for the same salary as a 40 hour week. If you refuse
> > to work over, you get fired. If you take off early, your frowned upon. There
> > is something seriously wrong with that picture.
> > 
> > I ask you. Why in the F**C should I give my time to a business for free? A
> > business that, as we all know by the hundreds of thousands of recent
> > layoffs, couldn't care less about anything but their own pockets. Can you
> > say Enron, Ford, AA, etc. Why? What have these companies done to deserve
> > taking a chunk out of my life that doesn't belong to them. They are not
> > paying for it. They just take it for free.
> > 
> > And, due to the massive layoffs, this epidemic of employees doing the work
> > of three people is growing. It should not be allowed to continue. Now
> > companies are even laying off people who have been working 70 hours a week
> > anyway! Instead of laying them off. They should have just told the employee.
> > We will let you stay at work 30 hours per week for free, but anything over
> > that you are not allowed to come in. That's how ridiculous this situation
> > is. These companies are getting away with corporate robbery!
> > 
> > Anything over 40 hours should be paid for. A good service for a good wage.
> > 
> > CHANGE THE EMPLOYMENT LAWS!!!!
> > 
> > Disclaimer: I know this is better than being out of work as many of you are.
> > So please hold your flames. But just because something is 'better,' still
> > doesn't make it right.
> > 


I was told by someone that actually got money from a former employer,
that you could not be considered management and exempt from overtime
unless you had a certain number of direct reports.  He ended up
getting back pay for all the overtime that he worked.  My suggestion
to you is document, document, document.  I left a job do to too much
overtime.  After working 80 hours over what should have been a holiday
weekend, I decided it was time to start looking.  That's when I moved
up here, and I practically doubled my salary in the process.  On a
very rare occasion I work overtime, but for the most part I work 40
and no more.



> > 
> > 
> 
> Walmart & Kmart do this too. They make everyone managers and then apply 
> subtle pressure so nobody leaves and keeps working all night long. And, 
> salary managers don't get paid overtime.
> 
> They do it because they can get away with it and there will always be 
> someone else standing in line to take the job after you tell them to 
> shove it, so, if you are not getting anything out of this job that you 
> really NEED, like experience, then tell them to shove it, tell them why 
> and go get a job. Respect yourself for crying out loud.