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

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Wed Nov 19 17:10:28 EST 2008


This is why I have my own business. If I'm gonna work for some fool who rides 
me hard and puts me to bed wet, messes with my personal time, and pays me 
crap, then I want that fool to be me.

SteveT

On Wednesday 19 November 2008 03:23:34 pm William Sutton wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > 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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