What I need is a week at the beach (or the mountains) *G*

>sounds like you need to come work for me :-)
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>>The only time I ever got paid overtime as a programmer was while I was working for the government and there even salaried employees receive overtime or comptime. I was really missing the overtime pay I used to receive the past 3 months when I spent 7 days a week working til 1:00 or 2:00am meeting a deadline!
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>>Tracy
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>>>>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!
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>>>hmmm - I didn't realize that any programmers ever got overtime. Other than contractors, of course, I've only been, seen, or hired under salary, and it is always pretty much expected that you work long enough to get the job done.
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>>>PRogrammers/developers and most IT workers are already classified as "exempt" and are therefore not eligible for overtime pay anyway, so I'm not sure what this supposed law would change?