Well, actually I DO have a clue what people do today to earn their pay as I am in/out of professional offices frequently. And at times I have stayed there to perform services I wasn’t able to perform at home.
An “hourly worker” isn’t tethered to their employer after their shift is up. That is against the law (in the absence of an employer paid standby or “on-call” allowance as well as a cell phone subsidy). I think you are confusing my position with a salaried worker. I was actually hourly, as were the vast majority of positions in my organization.
FormerSanDiegan, do you and your “Boomer colleagues” have pensions? If so, are they “defined benefit” pensions or does your employer match the funds you save in them?[/quote]
At my current and previous company there was no such thing as a defined benefit pension. They were defined contribution plans. Even my two recently retired colleagues who are not technically Boomers (they are older than that – “Greatest Generation” or whatever). No pension there either. Series of small companies/ start-ups and defined contribution plans for those guys.
Anyway, I guess I don’t interact with “hourly workers” those don’t really exist in engineering. I did work construction through college though.
Anyway, I can’t really relate to you and your universe with defined benefit plans and hourly worker drones who don;t think about work after 5:00.
So, I have nothing to say about them or their pensions, but just wanted to defend those folks who work in the more modern salaried environment that you were pointing out as lazy.
You and I simply live in orthogonal universes on this particular subject.
