THE TRUTH ABOUT APPLE'S FOXCONN WORKERS: They Want To Work MORE, Not Less

[Honeycombe8]

63. I get paid O.T. I've made a lot of $ on O.T. Besides, the nature of my job...

requires extended hours sometimes. It's just the way it is. If you can't work extended hours during those times, a person shouldn't be in the business.

I'm a litigation paralegal at a large law firm. When you watch Court TV, realize that someone like me has worked hours before court and after court assembling documents and notebooks for the Judge and all the attorneys, organizing the exhibits, bringing out the blown up exhibits for the jury, etc. And we stay up late or all night preparing for the following day in court. Or it might be just a hearing. If there's a filing deadline, like for a large trial exhibit list, I'm the one who stays up all night preparing that, and the attorneys revise it multiple times. It has to be perfect by teh next morning, ready to file with the court. The exhibits then have to be labeled by a vendor, and scanned to be electronic, and exchanged with the other attorneys shortly. There are many things like that to do in a short time.

Then I may work regular hours for a while, until another emergency comes along. I usu. only resent it when it's not a court deadline, but something that has come up just because an atty wants it done, or he did't do it on time.

It's this way for all trial paralegals and trial lawyers. And sometimes for the secretaries, too. Esp since we work at a large firm with sometimes large cases.