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socialindependocrat

(1,372 posts)
2. IT people worth more - Continuing the 30 year wage war.
Mon Feb 27, 2012, 09:22 PM
Feb 2012

Where else do you have someone who works 60 hours a week and then goes home and continues to improve their skills which is a benefit to the employer?

How many times have you been stuck and had to call your IT resource to get you out of trouble?

With all these computers, what would you do without all the knowledgable IT people?

This is just a continuation of corporations moving responsibility down to lower levels and then reducing salaries as they go.

People used to work 16 hour days so they started labor laws to cut work to 40 hour weeks.
Then they began to classify employees as "exempt" so they were exempt from overtime pay.
Now you can work employees for 60-80 hours a week and not pay them overtime. One step foreward - two steps back. There needs to be a stipulation that a certain amount of overtime for a coutinued period of time qualifies an exempt employee for overtime compensation (and not at the disgression of the manager).

What happened the last time our congress negated laws protecting "We The People"?
Oh yes, we went into a recession because the banks reduced the qualifications for home mortgages!
We need to start to make laws "stick". They were made for a reason.
Now we have to work for years to get ourselves back to a place where we can even hope to
live and retire as well as our parents did.

We're screwed. Let's fight for the next generation at least!!

The government is just taking a massive dump on the IT industry anymore. First SOPA/PIPA, now this. Initech Feb 2012 #1
IT people worth more - Continuing the 30 year wage war. socialindependocrat Feb 2012 #2
You're right. cyberpj Feb 2012 #6
the cruel irony of the '40 hour week' flexnor Feb 2012 #11
Just got an opportunity for a contract job anti-alec Feb 2012 #3
From my perspective you sound like the luckiest person on Earth. tridim Feb 2012 #4
I have no way of knowing that without knowing more about the situation. cyberpj Feb 2012 #5
I'm on disability and have Medicare anti-alec Feb 2012 #16
fake democrat kay hagan whoring for "right to work" for less nt msongs Feb 2012 #7
Is it me? cyberpj Feb 2012 #8
no, it's not just you flexnor Feb 2012 #10
I didnt know any IT employees got overtime in the first place flexnor Feb 2012 #9
The "cable puller" IT folks used to be hourly jeff47 Feb 2012 #12
"both parties and corporations have really, really had it in for IT workers in the last 15 year..." cyberpj Feb 2012 #13
no, not happy flexnor Feb 2012 #15
Hillary Clinton, on H-1b visas flexnor Feb 2012 #14
Yep. Knew about that. She may have her reasons cyberpj Feb 2012 #17
k&r Starry Messenger Feb 2012 #18
I have a state IT Job for 15 years now belcffub Feb 2012 #19
Why should it be "part of the job"? What is the reasoning? TheKentuckian Feb 2012 #20
no idea... just the way it is... union doesn't care least bit belcffub Mar 2012 #21
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