Ken Hirsch sites the statistic: 53.5% Managerial and professional specialty
It is interesting to note that the new overtime regulations being proposed
exclude professional specialty types from overtime. Is it co-incidence that
this amorphous group of workers is among the fastest growing? How many hours
a day will professionals be required to work for free to maintain their
professional status? How many free hours will be needed to keep your job
from being outsourced? How many hours of free overtime will we have to work
for every laid off worker? Since most of us on the list fall into this
category I think these questions are most pertinent.
As a side note when I first read the thread I saw some one had written about
x number of net jobs gained over the last 20 years. My first thought was,
"That makes sense since *the internet* was state of the art and growing
technology." It wasn't until Michael Berkowitz asked about, "You want fries
with that?"  that I realized we meant *net* jobs. This includes jobs in
which you need to a *hair net* too.

Let Peace be the maxim by which we act because we will Peace to become a
universal law.
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employer.
Yosef Rosenblatt

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