That's such a beautiful poem of an idea. It all comes crashing down once it hits reality at a mere one mile per hour. If you happen to be a tech writer, you ar

That's such a beautiful poem of an idea. It all comes crashing down once it hits reality at a mere one mile per hour. If you happen to be a tech writer, you are not exempt from overtime pay in California. Why is that, you ask? Are tech writers not minting money using a bit of time in front of a computer? Is there not a sellers market for tech writers? But of course these are all the wrong questions to ask. It is because tech writers thought they deserved overtime pay, lobbied for it, and were granted their wishes. Scroll down for how that happened. Scroll a bit further and you might realize that the original exemption was put in place by a long dead Republican senator from Idaho in 1990. I'm not convinced he had those deep insights into the market of computer professionals.