Re: Today (Feb 26) IBM announcements

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:47:49 -0600, Robert <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Contracting companies often offer you a choice between hourly and
salaried. Salaried gets
>20% less in base rate in exchange for paid holidays (worth 5%), better
benefits (no longer
>true) and the empty promise of being paid for bench time. If you're in a
low demand
>specialty like Cobol, you'll be fired the day the project ends. Salaried
is an obsolete
>holdover from the Good Old Days of the 1990s. Anyone who signs up for it
is a fool. 

Then I wish I had been a fool earlier.   A bigger pension looks more
and more desirable as I age.