On 8/2/2011 1:44 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > I'll bet we've all got one of these horror stories. > > In 1995, interviewing with a prestigious financial firm in downtown > Boston for a senior VFP position, the CTO told me that, in an effort > to address the increasing backlog of IT work, they had instituted > mandatory emergency overtime... two years ago. > > I was tempted to ask him how that was doing at fixing the problem. But > I had learned all I needed to know. >
Let's hope they were at leasting paying for that overtime (at 1.5 times the hourly rate) and not just telling the poor bastards that they were expected to work an extra 10-15 hours every week for no more pay. -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
