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On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 14:58:05 -0600, in dfw.jobs "Shamish"
<shchartudi@yahoo.com> wrote:

>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.
>


A friend's hubby worked for Nortel ten years back.  He was a salaried
manager.  For some contract dispute, Nortel began to pay for all
overtime work of salaried people.  Miraculously, after a month, he and
most other managers were working 40 hours a week.  I guess all that
overtime work just didn't need to get done anymore.

But I agree with you.  The more you work and are not compensated, your
per hour drops like a rock.  Screw loyalty.  You are just an
interchangeable part to the company.  Just think of the CEO's of these
great American corporations getting tens of millions in salary plus
hundreds in stock options, for bankrupting the company.  Yeah, they
are worth it for being a figurehead and passing on the favor to the
others.  God ble$$ America!

LOL.



K;)