>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.

Interesting, although I wonder how many programmers this will actually effect. When working as an employee I assume most of us are on salary (at least that's the way it's worked for me for the past..ummm like 20 years now) - and of course if you're consulting or running yer own biz it's going to be an hourly rate that doesn't get adjusted just because you went over 40 hours....(again - mine doesn't change).


>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:-)

Wouldnt put anything past Emperor-War-Mongual Bush and his little concentration camp.

>:-) First paragraphs true, last is hypothetical!