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From: dmsealy@mit-amt.MIT.EDU (Dexter Sealy)
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Subject: Re: Overtime pay for professionals???
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Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 13:10:14 EST
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> 
> This is an interesting statement. But neither I nor any of my friends
> in the computer science industry works for a company that pays overtime.
> Most of us DO work overtime, just don't get paid for more than 40 hrs.
> Some companies give you compensatory time, others dont even do that.
> Just out of curiosity, I wonder if anybody could post the names of companies
> that pay overtime to computer scientists/programmers?
>

While working for a medium-sized software company in Cambridge, Mass. this 
summer, I was not able to get overtime, but did get my regular salary for 
all the hours I worked.  (i.e if I worked 60 hours, I got paid for 60 hours).

My colleagues on the other hand did not get a similar deal.  Then again,
I approched my boss and asked for it.  

I think the fact that it was a small to medium sized company made this 
possible.  The pevious year when I worked for GTE in Needham, Mass. a
similar arrangement would have been unheard of.

					dmsealy@mit-amt.MIT.EDU