Booting up on the clock
Some employees have sued their employers because they aren’t getting paid for the time it takes them to boot up and shut down their work computers. Some of the lawsuits claim that it takes up to 30 minutes to get the machines going, according to an article in the National Law Journal.
Is it even possible for a machine to take that long to get going? Maybe these people are working on some kind of mechanical Babbage engines and need to coax the cogs into meshing every morning. We doubt it. If their computers are really that far gone, we can think of just one thing — they’ve been visiting some very dodgy sites during work hours and gotten infected with all kinds of malware. Which, in turn, means that they have been surfing porn on work time, and should shut up about a few nickels.
I’ll admit there is little that is more frustrating than waiting 15 minutes for Windows updates as my computer shuts down when I’m trying to get out of the office. But I’ve never been tempted to file a lawsuit.
Don Mecoy
Business Writer
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