For ridiculous legal reasons unique to the great state of California, I am no longer allowed to be a programmer. I can’t use any variation of the term as my job title, I can’t sign my tax returns with that job category, and I can’t spend more than 50% of my time writing code. I am now officially “an executive”.
I’m sure a lot of people would just laugh this off, but I am law-abiding to an almost neurotic degree (modulo freeway driving) and therefore bad rules make me crazy. So now I am going to do my best to comply with the advice of my extremely well-meant lawyers, bitching and moaning all the way, as they take away the only job title that ever meant a damn to me.
Fishy thoughts 
*yawn*
How … what … what happened? “[…] can’t spend more than 50% of my time writing code” because you’re in management? That seems absurd.
What law are you referencing? This is hard to buy…
WTF?!
So does this mean you can only spend 12 hours a day coding?
Yet another sign another dotcom bubble is starting.
Lol at Jeremy…I assume this has to do with the definition of an exempt employee?
It’s probably the same reason that as an end user computer technician I am an hourly employee with some salary employee benefits.