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Not Enough Golf - flextime policy led to a ruinous fight with federal regulators
- lsc 17y agoI know more than one person ruined by fighting with tax law 'because I am right' - Wouldn't it be better to just pay the money and, you know, not be ruined? Do they think it somehow moral to waste yourself in a fight you know you can not win?
- hga 17y agoIt depends on your personality/character in part: the physic cost of not fighting can be a lot higher.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoSo what happened? This was written over 12 years ago, so did he win? edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Pierce http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Pierce Claims the company has still has 50 employees, but I can't find a website, so maybe that info is 12 years out of date. Is that likely? Also says he tried to run for Senate in 2006 but lost the Republican primary.
- devinj 17y agoHe hadn't won as of 2004: http://www.amazon.com/Comfort-Solace-William-Gardner-Pierce/dp/0975433504 http://www.amazon.com/Comfort-Solace-William-Gardner-Pierce/...
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoThe blurb and review suggests that he lost, but now campaigns on the issue to avoid others hitting the same problem, though it's not totally explicit.
- hga 17y agoHmmm ... I have limited sympathy, for it's just plain comment sense that our employees are either hourly or salaried. If you hire someone on a salary, you don't dock them by the hour for they're not hourly workers (I believe that by the full day is OK). Nor do you pay them overtime by the hour, especially straight time (e.g. no time and a half where mandated). By the same token, the only time keeping records he really needed to keep were ones where employees recorded how much time they spent on each particular client, so that he could bill them honestly. Anyway, the bottom line is do or do not, your employees are salaried or hourly, don't try to blend the two.