Did you really just try to compare getting cut off in traffic to being hit by an IED ? <| sep |> I was reading these really hateful posts on yahoo regarding the decision by a judge to delay the new OT laws that were supposed to come into effect . One user , MLA , kept ranting and raving about how people need to work harder and if they accept a job , what they ' re paid is what they ' re paid . Yadda yadda yadda . Attacking dems as freeloaders and anyone not paid enough probably didn ' t deserve it . Then I read one post where it turns out she ' s a stay at home mother whose husband boostrapped his way as a computer programmer in the early ' 80 s . Said his boss forced a Bahamas vacation on them in the ' 80 s because he was working so hard . Talk about fucking out of touch . I don ' t understand how one could look at that story and then look at the workplace today and not have empathy for the young people starting out . Back when her husband was working , the 23 k floor of no OT made sense . That was 67 % of the salaried work force . Now that 23 k floor is just 7 % of the salaried work force .