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RE: Big bucks in tech writing - show me the money!
Subject:RE: Big bucks in tech writing - show me the money! From:"Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:15:58 -0400
>Based on the responses that I received, it is perplexing how some technical writers can work under overtime exempt status (no overtime compensation)....
Right. You cannot.
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>Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that slave labor was abolished in 1827.
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Well, you're wrong by a few decades in the US and by over a century elsewhere. But that's beside the point. When I was a contractor, I was paid by the hour. Time-and-a-half for overtime. (Aside: industry rumors to the contrary notwithstanding, there is no cutoff on the time-and-a-half rule under the federal wage and hour laws.)
Now I'm a salaried full-time employee. I manage my own time. As long as I meet deadlines for deliverables, nobody cares if I work 30 hours a week or 80 hours a week. As long as the paychecks don't bounce and they're fat enough to satisfy my inflated ego, I don't particularly care how many hours I work either, because it all evens out in the end. Do I feel like a slave? No. Do I work too hard sometimes? Yes, the operative word being sometimes. Nobody stands over me with a whip. If they want something done on the weekend, they ask politely and understand that sometimes the answer is going to be No. Usually, it is Yes. But that's just me. YMMV
Dick
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