When I worked at BT we had flexitime. If you did extra hours you could build them up and take time off. It worked very well . Then they decided we where managers/professionals and flexitime wasn't appropriate. Result no more flexitime off but we still had to work longer hours as required.

Nick Mason

>It has not made it to the Blogs, but this morning, with my green tea, I listenend to a congressman on C-SPAN, explaining why changes need to be made to "overtime" laws.
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>Conservatives hope to assign programmers a special class of professionals so that employers will not be required to pay over time.
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>Also implied: Any programmer that quits his or her position, in protest of these changes, will be detained in Guantanamo for an un specified period of time, and be forced to write DOS2.1 batch files to maintain legacy 3rd world XTs:-)
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>:-) First paragraphs true, last is hypothetical!