[TriLUG] Not Linux: Anyone else feeling the pain?

[William Sutton]

It's actually worse now.  Typically 2 weeks of general-purpose leave, less 
health insurance than they used to give out (and at somewhat higher rates 
for the employee), less or no 401(k) matching than used to be, and the 
company pensions are long since gone.  Holidays are rarer too.  I worked 
for one place that made a big deal to me about how they'd just bumped 
their holidays up from 5 to 6.

William Sutton


On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, James Tuttle wrote:

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> 3 weeks after 5 years?!  Is that kind of package standard now?  I get 24
> vacation and 12 sick days a year from the start.  Man, working for the
> state sure makes a person soft.
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> Jim
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> Steve Litt wrote:
>> On Wednesday 19 November 2008 12:43:18 am William Sutton wrote:
>>> or '00.
>>>
>>> I got the walking papers from my first job out of college after 5 months
>>> on the job... 2 weeks before Christmas.
>>
>> I knew an engineer who started with a big company in 1977. One reason she went
>> with them is after 5 years she'd get 3 weeks paid vacation every year. Comes
>> December 1982, with 10% unemployment, and instead of giving her the promised
>> 3 weeks, they cut her back to 1. The unemployment rate was 10% -- she had to
>> grovel and take it.
>>
>> SteveT
>>
>> Steve Litt
>> Recession Relief Package
>> http://www.recession-relief.US
>>
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