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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Getting shoved so much work at you that you'd need 80 hours to complete it instead of 40 (assuming you get paid for 40 hours) doesn't make a job a high pressure job. It makes your employer a slave driver.
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In the USA, Salary Workers are paid to do the job, not to do 40 (or whatever) hours.
Shame on them for not nailing down a 'normal' work (week) load.
I was lucky, My employer set a number of variable hours over 40 per week that was considered normal. If the company
required more, it paid (straight time) for thoseabove normal hours. Product roll out crunch time
, Major IT reconfig...
I have also work at places (Hourly), where a coworker (Salary) worked the same 20 hour day I did, for no extra.