Re: What are a programmer's rights to what he writes?

["System Support Products, Inc." <lforlini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Booth,

    In most cases, operators made well more than the programmers at 
their equivalent experience level.  One operator who moved over to 
programming took a significant pay cut.  He was the only one known to 
me to have ever done so there, and his colleagues thought him insane. 
But he did it because he was young, and he saw the writing on the 
wall as far as future demand for programmers vs. operators.

    It was certainly a backward situation compared to most shops, but 
that's what came of having part of the shop unionized, and part not. 
Accompanied by the inevitable morale problem.

    Regards,

    - Lou Forlini
      Software Engineer
      System Support Products, Inc.

At 3:51 AM +0000 5/27/00, boothm@earth.Goddard.edu wrote:
>I am curious though about one part of your comment "the programmers 
>would work long hours and
>still only get their salary.".  How did Year-end wages compare? 
>After the time and a half was added
>in, did the union workers earn anywhere near what the programmers earned
>on "only their salaries"??  I'm not a union guy in any way but for most
>union people, even after everything is added in, they still don't make all
>that much money.
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