LinkedIn ordered to pay $6 million in unpaid overtime wages and damages

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9. Title inflation was underway by the early 80s

Silicon Valley employers were classifying even entry programmers as exempt in the early 80s - at least the government contractor I worked for back then did. I actually read the labor notices posted in the break room: programmers were called out, but not well defined. How legal was it? Don't know. Why did (and do) workers put up with it? If the Valley's in one of its bust cycles, you take what job you can find. If its in a boom cycle, if you're lucky and pick the right company there can be big bucks in store, with stock options, profit sharing (anybody remember that?) and other perks.