Google just invented vo tech. Maybe my two associates degrees will finally be worth something.

Well, that's an unusual disaster recovery plan.

...can bitch all they want. They wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for the Boomers.

It's just the next iteration of the "walled garden" approach that Apple has always been fond of.

No, the three free range chickens and window box full of "organic" wheatgrass you have in your condo don't count.

Yeah, I was trying to do a quickie search at work, while actually working, on a Friday. It's inhumane! Anyways, a friend of mine picked up one of their newer models and cranked it up to over $4000 with options. I have major envy.

This is the current competition: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbetanews.com%2F2015%2F12%2F2...

...I thought we Americans were already doing that with the "science" of HAES.

I wondered the exact same thing. I wonder just who is suffering from a reading comprehension disability, us or the poster.

It looks like Nintendo isn't in the industry of actually creating games any more. Just like Pokémon Go is a licensed shell dropped over Ingress, now we have a Super Mario game that has nothing to do with the actual game at all. Does Nintendo still make games, or does it just make game mods now?

How dare you have a successful business model that can afford to draw talented employees! Suffer the shame of being able to buy up new technologies and monetize them much better than the "little guy"! No, no success in America today! Everyone must be equal! Exactly. I know it's not a very popular truth these days, but there will always be winners and losers no matter how many participation medals you hand out.

You can have a portion of the money back as long as your bank account is full due to helping the police with their money laundering.

I always thought ugly people looked better with less light. I know I do!

"What if you could construct an unmanned aerial vehicle out of biological material..."

That has to be the classiest way I've ever heard anyone describe a loogie before!

In my current position as a systems administrator for a financial holding company, I've been enjoying the fact I get over time for the first time in quite a while. My last two places of employment, I started out on hourly, and shortly after I was hired the whole department was changed to salary (no OT). One was private sector and one was public sector. Oddly enough, right before I was hired at my current place of employment, the IT staff had just gone the reverse transition due to an employee successfully arguing that we didn't qualify as exempt.

Most weeks, I put in 5 or less hours of overtime depending on the current load. However, when we acquire new banks or have a major project (like the Novell to AD transition), it's very easy for everyone involved to put in 20-30 hours extra per week. Of course, you will always have employees that will take advantage of this, but myself and others that still have a work ethic appreciate being actually paid for our extra time and give our best effort possible.

Now they are discussing transitioning back to salary due to the arrival of a new boss this year. I know if this happens they are going to lose a lot of experienced staff. This might be okay from a business financial perspective. In other words, hire less experienced staff for less pay on salary and it doesn't matter how long it takes. However, in the real world, you're going to upset a lot of clients that way when they're used to things getting done quickly and dedicated (fairly compensated) employees that are willing to work the distance with the customer and actually know what they're doing.

Rambling post aside, yes, OT is a good thing if you want good employees (for the most part).