Extreamly late follow on from VM's post, "Ten Things I Don't Understand" :

1. Inflation
2. Manual Cars
3. Sephora advertising on MP3.com
4. Why Hemp isn't legal
5. The general acceptance (and expectation) of working long hours for no or little extra pay
6. "Our car goes really fast" commercials in a state that has a maxiumum speed limit of 110kph
7. Eddie Macguire
8. Unalterable faith
9. Why every electronic product I buy must have at least one thing wrong with it, usually a lot more, especially if it's a pain to take back to the store
10. My bad memory

Subject URL: I've been workin' on the railroad...

Of the three companies I've been employeed at the hours worked per week have been quoted 38hrs, 40hrs and 40hrs. For some reason I've had it in my head that anything over 38hrs was illegal, however the article above (from Mercer Cullen Egan Dell, a HR company) explains everything clearly.

It is mainly referring to work conditions in the EU, however it covers average annual leave, hours worked and public holidays for many different countries around the world. A very interesting read. Unfortunately it doesn't go into salary standards... which may or may not make up for the differences we see here.

For Australia :
Australia has a 40-hour statutory maximum with a 38-hour week deemed as normal practice.

The average leave and public holiday entitlements across all EU states is 36 days. Austria, Germany and Sweden provide the longest time off - 43, 42 and 41 days respectively. At the other extreme, Belgium and the UK provide only 31 days while Ireland gives just 29 [....] Australia's 20-day statutory leave entitlement and just 9 days public holidays rates the country at the low total leave entitlement end of the spectrum, along with Ireland (29 days).

Subject URL: ehWho?

Quick update : I have worked for ehyou.com for the last year. ehyou.com is the parent company of MP3.com.au, sprint.com.au, wiredrecords.com and ozhosting.com.

For the first six or so months I worked entirely for MP3.com.au. For about another four months I worked 50% on Sprint.com.au, 50% on MP3.com.au. For the last few months I've been 25% MP3, 75% Sprint. The last month or so I've been 100% Sprint.

Yesterday Sprint.com.au was sold to Atomic Media.

Today we finish moving computers/code/people to the our new office in Southbank, behind the casino, only two days after discovering who we were being sold to. During all this time we're supposed to launch a fairly important client's site. It's a bit hectic around here!

It's all far too early and far to quick to say how I really feel about all of this. I've had about a month to fret over the sale, check out other options etc, but only the last few days to suss out where we're going.

More on this later...