Tempest

I suspect you're wrong on some things... Not sure what the laws are like in the states, but there are always "loopholes"... Typically when you work in some sort of "management" position (or something similar that a company can use as a loophole to get around certain labour laws), there is no such thing as an 8 hr work day, overtime pay etc... And then the company has a culture of pushing employees to work far beyond 40hrs/week and make it "appear" as if it's "required"... Large corporations have so many people working 60+ hours a week as common place... While true that you may be paid more than some other employees, but in comparison, if you were paid as much as those other ones, plus overtime, you'd make far more than your yearly salary.

Frankly, if companies actually employed enough people to get all the work done, there would be no job problem.. I never worked for a company that had an adequate work force for what they were trying to accomplish.

I used to work for a large corporation where this was the culture... They would push as many ppl into some sort of pseudo management position whenever they could. Would have guys bitch at me that they were making less money after they were promoted.. And we were "encouraged" to limit overtime for the guys that were paid for it and to push the team leaders to take up the slack. There were periods of time where we were expected to work 14-16 hour days for weeks and even sometimes I was putting in 30 hour stints. They've been in the news a few times for their "sweat shop" culture... It's actually a US company...

When I think of it, every single major job I had worked the same way.