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hot_pastrami · 02-11-2003, 05:14 PM

I work for an employer who has decided that all software engineers need to work sixty hours a week. Sixty. That's 12 hours a day, five days a week, or 10 hours a day six days a week. Other obligations be damned, we all have to work 60, at the pain of losing our jobs. Talk about taking advantage of the poor job market.

One co-worker's wife is in the hospital, recently suffered renal failure and may be near death... and they won't let him off the hook. He can't afford to lose his job and family medical benefits, so rather than spending what may be the last hours of her life with his wife, he's at work, and probably accomplishing nothing except chewing a few ulcers in his stomach lining. Hopefully he'll get FMLA going soon, but the cold, emotionless response of management here is almost enough to set off the gag reflex.

A few months ago the new CEO decided to lay off all employees on a project, about 60 of them, and told them that if they wanted their jobs back, they could re-apply for them, and renegotiate their (now lower) salary. That way they can weed out employees they don't like, and pay those they do like less money. Brilliant!

I work for pure evil. I used to have a good work ethic, but they've wrung it out of me, and what was once a good, loyal employee is now little more than a waste of space while at work. Blah.

02-11-2003, 05:14 PM	#27
hot_pastrami I am meaty Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Salt Lake City, UT Posts: 1,119	I work for an employer who has decided that all software engineers need to work sixty hours a week. Sixty. That's 12 hours a day, five days a week, or 10 hours a day six days a week. Other obligations be damned, we all have to work 60, at the pain of losing our jobs. Talk about taking advantage of the poor job market. One co-worker's wife is in the hospital, recently suffered renal failure and may be near death... and they won't let him off the hook. He can't afford to lose his job and family medical benefits, so rather than spending what may be the last hours of her life with his wife, he's at work, and probably accomplishing nothing except chewing a few ulcers in his stomach lining. Hopefully he'll get FMLA going soon, but the cold, emotionless response of management here is almost enough to set off the gag reflex. A few months ago the new CEO decided to lay off all employees on a project, about 60 of them, and told them that if they wanted their jobs back, they could re-apply for them, and renegotiate their (now lower) salary. That way they can weed out employees they don't like, and pay those they do like less money. Brilliant! I work for pure evil. I used to have a good work ethic, but they've wrung it out of me, and what was once a good, loyal employee is now little more than a waste of space while at work. Blah. __________________ Hot Pastrami!