Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots? 794
An anonymous reader notes a posting up at a law blog with the provocative title Does Your Boss Have to Pay You While You Wait for Vista to Boot Up?. (Provocative because Vista doesn't boot more slowly than anything else, necessarily, as one commenter points out.) The National Law Journal article behind the post requires subscription. Quoting: "Lawyers are noting a new type of lawsuit, in which employees are suing over time spent booting [up] their computers. ... During the past year, several companies, including AT&T Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Cigna Corp., have been hit with lawsuits in which employees claimed that they were not paid for the 15- to 30-minute task of booting their computers at the start of each day and logging out at the end. Add those minutes up over a week, and hourly employees are losing some serious pay, argues plaintiffs' lawyer Mark Thierman, a Las Vegas solo practitioner who has filed a handful of computer-booting lawsuits in recent years. ... [A] management-side attorney... who is defending a half-dozen employers in computer-booting lawsuits... believes that, in most cases, computer booting does not warrant being called work."
Re:15 minutes? (Score:0, Funny)
she spent more than 10 minutes choking on my cock
30 minutes? (Score:5, Funny)
These computer must be from 1995 (Score:4, Funny)
shentino (Score:2, Funny)
Perhaps keeping all the computers turned on and then flipping a single wall switch 30 minutes early would help?
That's the way my old high school did it.
Re:30 minutes? (Score:5, Funny)
Only the DX. The DX2 is actually a double clock speed of a 25 MHZ.
I tried them both with Xwing, and the 66MHZ wins hands down.
Re:So, automate the boot process. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No. (Score:5, Funny)
...or have sex while the computer boots
Actually I had sex while on conference calls a few times. Thank god for mute, both for my sake and for the sake of coworkers. My ex was a screamer. Good memories, I tell you.
Re:These computer must be from 1995 (Score:5, Funny)
Our solution (Score:0, Funny)
Fuck the environment / power bill, lock your box and leave it on all night.
You're on my time (Score:1, Funny)
I get paid as soon as I walk through the door. The Company is on my time, not the other way around.
ObXkcd (Score:4, Funny)
Re:huh? (Score:5, Funny)
George Jetson was paid the whole day just to press a button to start the plant in the morning and shut it down before he went home. Same thing.
If a fictional cartoon character from the future can get paid for that, then I don't see why I can't be too.
Re:So, automate the boot process. (Score:4, Funny)
if you gave us their IP range and a favorite website of one of the workers, I'm sure we could configure it for for them.
Re:More than just Windows.... (Score:3, Funny)
Sigh... Just like XKCD (Score:2, Funny)
...computer nerds making unsubstantiated and unlikely sounding claims about quirky sexual exploits.
Do we have to implement www.isslashdotshittytoday.com?
For the avoidance of doubt, this is where you broke the suspension of disbelief:
Re:Yes. (Score:5, Funny)
or if you wanna be a super huge gaping asshole, you can murder their children and bask in the lamentation of their mothers.
Re:More than just Windows.... (Score:5, Funny)
Erm.... Apple?
Re:Yes. (Score:2, Funny)
FUCK UNIONS!
Signed, Concerned Libertarian
Re:Yes. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Yes. (Score:1, Funny)
Hey now. As a college grad with not one but TWO business degrees (one in CIS, the other an MBA), I can verify that my attention span is at least 30 seconds (which, incidentally is less time than it takes for my Vista machine to boot).
Re:15 minutes? (Score:5, Funny)
Call me old fashion....
Shuddup, a-line flares! You ain't nothin' but a lime green tank-top!
Re:Yes. (Score:5, Funny)
I wholeheartedly endorse your support your proposition to start a prostitutes union. I'm sure the women are sick of having to give freebies to the pimps.
Re:Yes. (Score:4, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Yes. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Yes. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Yes. (Score:5, Funny)
if you wanna be a super huge gaping asshole
There's this website you might have heard of...
Re:15 minutes? (Score:3, Funny)
Hammocks? My goodness, what an idea. Why didn't I think of that? Hammocks! Homer, there's four places. There's the Hammock Hut, that's on third.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Hank Scorpio: There's Hammocks-R-Us, that's on third too. You got Put-Your-Butt-There.
Homer: Mm-Hmm.
Hank Scorpio: That's on third. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot... Matter of fact, they're all in the same complex; it's the hammock complex on third.
Homer: Oh, the hammock district!
Hank Scorpio: That's right.