Michel Boucher wrote:
>
> Nancy Young > wrote in
> :
>
> > (heh) Exempt workers or salaried workers are different from
> > hourly workers. At some stage you are expected to just get the
> > job done. No watching the clock.
>
> But you're not working for free then. You just feel like you are. I
> am a salaried and exempted worker (House of Commons staff, unionized
> or not, must work to operational requirements which may include
> weekends) and yet I wouldn't say I ever work for free. I will in
> fact be working four hours on Saturday (my idea) to assist in meeting
> operational requirements.
>
> Managerial staff work until the task is completed. When I was a
> manager, I got in early and often didn't leave until very late. I
> didn't find it satisfying, not to mention exhausting, so I returned
> to my previous position after nine months.

People never believe me that during tax season, 4 times a year plus
federal filing, I would work 20 hours a day. For days on end. Take
my word for it, I didn't get extra pay once I reached exempt status.

nancy