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...where serfs are expected to be grateful to their Lordship for whatever bounty he chooses to dispense, and otherwise humbly accept their lot in life. :grr:
FWIW, at my last software company (which sounds like it was only a few miles from your workplace), coming in at least one weekend day until about 10 P.M. (unpaid overtime, of course) was considered de rigeur. During crunch time, which stretched for weeks at a time, make that both Saturday and Sunday...they might be generous enough to allow you to attend a place of worship on the appropriate day, but only if you made it up by working even later that day.
Also, during crunch time, late nights were expected. Since I had to pick up my daughter at day care by 6:30, that meant driving back to Maple Valley (40 miles through rush hour traffic), picking her and my wife up, taking them home, and then driving back to Kirkland and working until past midnight before another 40-mile drive home. Do you know what this schedule got me? Continual complaints for being "disloyal," "letting my team down," and "cheating the company" because, horrors!, I was actually away from the office from about 5:15 to 7:30 to pick up my daughter. Even though I came back later, that absence was what was noticed and brought up again and again -- even though I'd told them, at the time of hiring, that I had to be able to do so, and was told at the time that it would be "no problem."
The fact is that the conservative goal is not the "good old days" of the 50s (where workers had reasonable hours and the rich paid heavy taxes) but feudalism -- where those who already have can sit back, live off their businesses and investments, and pass them all down to their children tax-free, while workers are just commodities who should be satisfied with their lot in life, happy with whatever their betters choose to give them. Workers, be grateful that your quality of life is better than workers in China, because we can always send most of your jobs there if you are ingrates!
:argh:
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