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From: hammond@steinmetz.UUCP (Steve Hammond)
Newsgroups: net.jobs
Subject: Re: Re: Overtime pay for professionals???
Message-ID: <343@steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 11:08:10 EST
Article-I.D.: steinmet.343
Posted: Mon Dec 16 11:08:10 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Dec-85 04:37:13 EST
Organization: GE CRD, Schenectady, NY
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> I have been working overtime at time and a half for 6 months now.
> 
> 					Bruce E. Shaver
> 					AT&T Bell Laboratories
> 					Naperville IL

                     ^
                     |
    Is this why my phone bill is so much ?  :-)

Seriously though, what exactly do you mean by a professional???
Are you trying to distinguish between a programmer and a computer
scientist?  It is really another topic and perhaps could be discussed 
elsewhere.

Here at GE's Corporate R&D Center, the hourly workers get paid 
by the hour, obviously.  If they work more than 40 hours a week
then they are compensated accordingly. 
I am a member of the R&D staff and thus termed "exempt".
That means that I have certain responsibilities to the company.
If I need 60 hours to complete some work, then I have to spend
late nights here to do it.  It is my responsibility to do what
it takes to make a project successful.  If I can get it done
only spending 30 hours a week then that is fine also.My pay will
be the same in both cases.  I guess working more than 40 is refered to as 
"casual overtime".  Most have to do it but no one is directly paid
for the additional time.  The fact that I don't get money for
the extra time I put in does not bother me, there are other
compensating factors.  I don't have to punch a clock, I don't
have to be here right at 8:00.  There are freedoms but along
with them are responsibilities.  I like it this way.
-- 
  Steve Hammond 
   arpa: hammond@ge-crd    uucp: ...rochester!steinmetz!hammond