Do you get paid for booting?

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Do you get paid while your PC boots up? I hope for your sake that you’ve never even had to think about it; an office where that’s an issue sounds like an awful place to work.

Unfortunately, these offices do seem to exist, though. In fact, several companies in the US have been sued by employees in the last year over claims that they lose hours a week to startup and shutdowns, for which they aren’t paid a penny. (more…)