RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Wasnt this a bad TV show when I was growingup?

["Ross, Matthew" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> Ever watch Scrubs?  I mean, it's a TV janitor, but I'm pretty 
> sure that
> he probably researches toilet bowl cleaning technology in his 
> off time.

I suspect thats a matter of psychology, not of profession. If I don't keep abreast of current computer events, I can't do my job very effectively and may lose it. If a janitor doesn't find out about the latest toilet bowl cleaner for 5 years, its not his problem. If its important, like a new cleaning for a newly discovered disease, some government agency will step in and tell him what to do. All a janitor ever has to do is show up, clean for 8 hours, and leave.

> >The benefit they get though - if they ever, for any reason, 
> have to work more than 40 hours, they get paid overtime. I 
> don't know of any real computer job that isn't an 'exempt' 
> position. Your CEO's, managers, and other "professional" jobs 
> are almost always exempt, for the practical reason that these 
> people work closer to 80 hours a week.
> 
> Not true.  Many field service and call center employees are now
> non-exempt due to recent labor rulings.

Field service refers to people sent out like plumbers during working hours to "fix the pipes" in computers. They work in shifts and do a company defined task repeatedly. Mobile factory workers basically. Some companies actually hire competent people for this, pay them well, and let them actually make decisions on the field. Those companies are called "out of business" because they can't compete with the Dewie, Cheatum and Howwe approach to doing business.

Call center refers to the half wits companies hire to answer the tech support phone who aren't technically literate, just phone operators with scripts.

You might get a trained person in one of these positions, but that would be the equivalent of hiring a sanitation engineer as a janitor.

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