Terry,

>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.

My first thought..."Do you want fries with that?"

Seriously, while most professional software developers I don't think fall into a category like this (I'm salaried, but do get overtime) and generally make a reasonably good income. Think of the guy at McDonald's.

This is part of the same initiative that takes overtime pay away from certain others, including the guy at McDonald's. All they have to do is give him at title like "Assistant Night Manager" and they don't have to pay him overtime.

>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!

Not even AT's??? That's cruel and unusual.:-)