On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 21:25:57 -0400, "G.R. Patterson III"
wrote:

This actually results in more hours being worked (by those
fewer people), but less money paid in salaries because "professionals" don't
get overtime pay. It's less efficient, but it costs less. The only technology
advance is the purchase of pagers for those poor *******s left working 7/24.


....combined with incredible resistance on the part of managment to
adopt technologies which would help those poor *******s telecommute,
thanks to their 24/7 assignment.

I was in that world. I got out as soon as I could after I realized,
one Christmas afternoon, that there were no conditions under which I'd
get a day off. I then watched at the next company I worked for as
first I was let go in a restructuring, how a friend of mine found
himself with 20% more work, then 50%, then 75%, as the people around
him bailed. Then they relocated him and started to *really* treat him
poorly as regards workload.

Rob