Re: Tech Writers as Hourly Employees?!

[eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com]

bounce-techwr-l-106467 -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com wrote on 05/20/2005 09:56:27 AM:
> If your employer changes the terms to hourly against your 
> wishes, you could always leave - or you could stay and change your 
behavior:

For God's sake, why the negativity? Why on Earth would you leave? If you 
were being paid X per wk before and X per wk now, what tiny insignificant 
advantage or morsel of prestige is being lost? What positive aspect are 
people linking with being salaried slaves working all hours required for 
the same compensation? What possible significance does the fact your 
unchanged X per wk is now actually X per Y hrs.

Stay AND DON'T change your behaviour. If you HAVE to work overtime, make 
sure it's budgeted before charging it. If it's budgeted, revel in the fact 
that your company now values you MORE than a salaried employee because 
they are paying you for ALL of your time.

If it's not budgeted, and your weekly pay hasn't changed from before, why 
not just do the same as before and put in the extra time to finish the job 
properly?

Heck, if it's not budgeted and you can show you boss you're putting in 
more hours you might be able to get the boss to repay you in kind and 
allow some time off.

The whole dang thing might just be a budgeting thing so they can track 
projects more closely. You should be happy that the company now wants to 
budget based on a portion of you life instead of ALL of your life.

This is all as bad as the navel gazing and pathetic supposition that 
respect is gained by the title on your business card.

Eric L. Dunn
Senior Technical Writer

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