CROSE
New Member
- Jun 7, 2010
- 154
- Boat Info
- 1995 200 BR Signature
- Engines
- 5.0 190 HP Mercruiser w/Alpha I
My wife and I worked for IBM for 17 years before we just couldn't take the BS anymore. She was working with a China team who expected her to work on their hours - meanwhile working for a US team who expected her to be online during our normal hours. I was working for a crazy team who expected 70-80 hours a week to get projects out on unrealistic schedules. No one was looking out for us - we made our own decisions, we made our own retirement contributions and ultimately decided the corporate life was not for us.
I worked for IBM in MN and they did the same to me. A few years ago they got hit with a class action suite about OT pay and salary -vs- hourly. I was wrongly classified as salary so they owed me OT. Then a judge in MN ruled that I could only collect 2 years back from the date of the initial class ruling, which gave me 7 months of qualifying hours. So instead of being owed $108,000. I ended up getting about $800.