On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Constance Warner <cawar...@his.com> wrote:
> Maybe it's time for programmers to get concerned about politics and > economics--even, dare I say it, unions. (It won't be easy, but they > probably won't send the Pinkertons with shotguns against you, the way they > did to workers in the coal fields.) My brother, who currently labors in a fairly stressful computing environment as far as I can determine, is pretty paranoid when it comes to retaining his job. He lost his last computing gig to a worker in India who would do the job cheaper. I can understand the concerns that my brother harbors. He moved 600 miles, and left his wife and home behind to take his current job because he could do government work that requires a security clearance and therefore cannot be farmed out to foreign workers. The price he pays for that "job security" is about 60 hours a week at the office, collapsing in bed immediately upon getting back from the job, and then waking up to crank out a couple more hours of work by way of VPN before going to bed, then getting up and starting it all over again. He has already lost a lot of accrued vacation time because he just felt unable to take it because of work pressures. He gets good money, but that is probably because his company charges the government and us taxpayers an excessive amount for the defense work they do. I am sure you know how that works. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
