Like many other sectors, IT Professionals are in a race to the bottom competing with lower wage workers overseas. Computer professionals are entirely exempt from overtime regulations. Unless we organize we will continue to see declining wages and more demands placed upon us by management. Technology was supposed to provide us greater freedom. Yet given the number of unpaid weekend hours we endure as syadmins, it seems we're experiencing quite the opposite.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/middle-class-cant-get-ahead/http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Glossary.asp?Button1=E#employee%20in%20the%20computer%20software%20field
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