[TriLUG] Thomas Edison and Patents

[William Sutton]

Seems to me if you're holding down DBA /and/ programming jobs, you ought 
to get paid for both, rather than that being an excuse to just pay you the 
minimum for one...but these days, some of us feel fortunate to have paying 
employment.

William Sutton

On Wed, 1 May 2013, Danielle wrote:

> On 2013-05-01 16:38, Bill Farrow wrote:
>
>> I'm sure he did, and so did his lawyers and detectives hunting down
>> infringement of his patents.  Edison knew how to make the patent
>> system work to his advantage: buying other peoples patents to
>> strengthen his own position, and aggressive licensing of devices that
>> he had no interest in manufacturing himself.  Hello Hollywood.
>
> That reminds me of an experience I had at a past job. A colleague and I 
> worked some long hours to get a single sign-on system working and bring in 
> the first service. At the core of it was a portal for an ERP solution, and 
> we, jointly, authored a presentation for the that ERP's user group. My 
> manager, however, decided that only my college would be credited in the 
> presentation.
>
> Soon after this I had my duties as assigned expanded to include some 
> low-level DBA tasks, meaning I was a SysAdmin who was also dealing with a lot 
> of computer room operator and DBA tasks; a combination none of the other SAs 
> had, and which meant that I was alone among the SAs in not participating in 
> project work as I was required to deal with too many other, heavily 
> interrupt-driven tasks. The response I received from my manager when I pushed 
> for changes to this demonstrated that they were using me to avoid hiring 
> another operator and DBA, and doing so while keeping me in a position where 
> they could justify suppressing my pay.
>
> Regards,
> Danielle
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