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From: clewis@spectrix.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Sunday openings
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Date: Mon, 8-Dec-86 09:01:52 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  8 09:01:52 1986
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In article <1986Dec5.173538.23000@utcs.uucp> shindman@utcs.UUCP (Paul Shindman) writes:

>[Regarding shift workers on Sunday]

>In fact, you probably need look no further than your own computer center.
>Ours has always had weekend shifts.  Most are probably the same.  

I *am* our computer centre.  And I don't get paid for it either :-).

Seriously folks, in the real world of computer R&D, 37.5 hour weeks are
a bit of a joke.  Companies tend to treat you similarly to other salaried
engineering professionals.  Which means, to most companies, that you work 
until the job's done.  Period.  If that's another 10 or more hours a week, 
too bad.  Nor do most of the places I've worked pay overtime - or anytime
at all for the extra hours.  Most of the time I don't mind, I happen to
enjoy what I'm doing, and to be treated as a professional, you have to act
like one.  The time I get irritated with this policy is when schedules are
originally intended to require overtime.  As opposed to simply being behind
schedule.  The upshot of all this is that I do work a lot more than 40 hours
a week, and have frequently worked 12 or more hours a day.  Even a 40 hour
day starting on a Saturday... (though, I'm getting too old for that now..)
My wife has been averaging 35 hours of overtime per week for the last two 
months ...  (At least she's being paid.)
-- 
Chris Lewis, Spectrix Microsystems Inc,
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