Re: Tech Writer Lawsuit

Subject: Re: Tech Writer Lawsuit
From: "Collin Turner" <straylightsghost -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 14:39:19 -0600

Folks, I really hate to say this....but I'm gonna.

If you feel things going anywhere near sour? It's probably a good idea to do
some research into your State's laws and engage the CYA procedures.

That's all I'm gonna say about that (here)...but I'm sure gonna blog it.

-Collin
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On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:

> It probably depends on the timing. i.e., how long she
> worked those long weeks before complaining about the
> hours, and how her performance was rated before the
> complaint. Another unanswered question is whether
> her coworkers were also putting in those long weeks
> or if they were somehow managing to get their work
> done satisfactorily in fewer hours, and if her complaint
> about hours was just the last straw for a manager who
> was already displeased with her work and would have
> been just as happy if she had managed to "improve her
> performance" without working 60+ hours a week. I would
> not be surprised if we hear Sun maintain that they never
> demanded that she work those specific hours and that
> she just wasn't able to do the same work other writers
> were getting done in less time.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>
> > Seems like a somewhat harsh rant for this case. Hoenemier did not
> > seek
> > employment at Sun. She worked for a company that was bought-out by
> > Sun and
> > she protested working overtime. It looks like Sun was coercing
> > Hoenemier
> > into working overtime when they "ordered her to improve her
> > performance
> > after she complained about overtime." They ordered her to improve
> > *after*
> > she complained. So when she was working long hours without proper
> > compensation and she wasn't complaining, her performance was fine?
>
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RE: Tech Writer Lawsuit: From: Lauren
Re: Tech Writer Lawsuit: From: Gene Kim-Eng

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