Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 09, 2013

overtime? what’s that? my company won’t allow overtime. a 40-hour work week is just that- a full-timer works no more than 40 hours. period. no exceptions.

All jobs suck. I helps if you know how much going in.

Sounds a lot like the credit card offers I keep getting in the mail- from companies whose credit cards I ALREADY HAVE! At a lower APR, of course.

Overtime? I am salaried, 50 cents an hour if it is a 42.5 hr week or 70 hr week. Than the Fed takes it share out in taxes.

You mean there are jobs that the Chinese and Mexicans don’t have?

I work for the government as a computer programmer. Starting this week we have to take one “furlough” day per week for 11 weeks. For “furlough” read “Leave Without Pay” … which amounts to a selective taxation on government workers, who are paid less than industry standard to begin with. Austerity is hitting us hard!

I learned the other day that the nation’s second largest employer is Kelly Services. Nice recovery we’re having.

will not surprise me when kids(under the age of 13) begin to work in the workplace. 40+ hours for the kids. it will start with the poor kids. at first, it will be office work. then, it will be light industrial. then, they would go into heavy industrial. and, no gov’t rules or laws about safety, pollution controls, etc…, more and more kids will be doing unsafe jobs for 1 cent a month. they call it valuable work experience.

Anyone in my company works over 40 hours, it gets credited to next week’s paycheck. So if I work 42 hours, I work 38 the next week, but get paid for 40.

You’ve hit the nail on the head. Yea it’s lousy that the economy isn’t what it used to be, but suck it up folks. If people start living within their means you can get by. Yes, it will hurt. Lose the oversize house, the extra car, buy a used toy what ever it might be….if you can afford it.Forget about loans. If you really, really want something, start saving up and pay cash. Immediate gratification at the cost of paying off a loan with interest is not going to work in the current economy, for a large portion of the working class.One interesting thing,more people were saving money in years past than is the case now. It’s fun to blame the government for all our ills. But at the end of the day, as individuals we shouldn’t just sit around complaining and waiting for a miracle to happen.

“That was the choice your President made…”-I don’t know about the government in the country you live in, but in the US, this decision is and was made by the executive AND legislative branch. Mr. Obama didn’t enact the sequester himself.

A conservative dream come true…….

Nailed it !!! yell the Koch brothers !!!

Except it was the private banking sectors with its selling of toxic mortgages and splitting them up into smaller units to sell as trumped up AAA bonds that nearly collapsed the economy. Only the fast action of the government kept the world from experiencing another Depression. The regulations which have prevented such actions were “relaxed” by lobbyists working for those wonderful private market interests. Please to note, in the last 150 years the US has had 16 such banking incidents (larger and smaller), but Canada with its strong regulation hasn’t experience one. Not one! Not a third of its wealth wiped out in a few days. Not once. Learn.

Good one Wiley, Good one.

Not my president. I didn’t vote for him either time.

Frog Applause has returned from limbo.But the blog is still lost.

The NSA thanks you for your input & will be noted in your file.

True, bbinkle. The President could have cut millions from waste and corporate welfare but instead tried to make this political by putting cuts where the media would notice; unfortunately for the President the sequestration, no matter what he did to screw it up, was good for the economy.

I complained about not being able to finish my degree before I turn 40 in 5 years due to idiotic student loan rules and lost my job. It wouldn’t have been so bad, but because I worked for a large university, my boss had to tell a little white lie to push the termination through. Telling HR that I threatened to kill her got me banned from campus, and effectively blackballed from every employer in the city with internet access. After threatening to shoot up the campus since I couldn’t find a job or get unemployment, the university police stuck me in the state mental hospital so they could try to take away my guns. Dozens of overpaid bureaucrats have looked at my case during the 6 months they could hold me. The best solution they could collectively come up with is that I should move to North Dakota, and try to get a job in the oil fields. Nevermind that I haven’t been able to afford a car, so I wouldn’t be able to get there, and I’m pretty sure they have internet in ND too. I think those in power underestimate what men will tolerate before they become violent. Nobody in their right mind is going to say to themselves, “Oh, I guess I’m homeless now.”

We have met the enemy and he is us. – Pogo

Captialism is a house of cards; it depends on ever increasing numbers of consumers. The problem is us baby boomers are past our “peak” earning years and now are starting to withdraw some of what we put into the economy in the past.

Welcome to Americo! A subsidiary of a subservient congress.

Did it ever occur to you that the politicians you apparently support are getting their wish with the sequestration?

Greed is indeed the 600-pound gorilla no one dares mention re: the free market system. Free Market is great in the abstract; not so much when filtered through humans who are, well, GREEDY.

As for me, I’d rather be unemployed.

By definition, if you are a sucessful businessperson, you are corrupt and dishonest…

Austerity Boom? Yeah something went BOOM! alright but some how I think it was the economy!