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Vote with your feet. Walk. Not right away of course, but you do need to
seriously start looking. Especially if management is not open to the idea
that 70 hours a week is too much. You have talked to your manager, right?
Naturally, don't jump up and down and shout "I'm fed up and I'm looking",
you'd want to approach it more like "70 hours a week is really wearing me
down, could we work on something more reasonable?".

If they won't work with you on it, definitely walk. Be sure and let HR know
before you leave that the hours are an issue. Discretely let other people on
the job know that's why you left. Unless they are absolute trolls they will
listen and you'll be making things a little better for the next guy after
you. I am aware that the economy makes walking harder, but you never know
until you look.

I've been in the same situation that you describe where everyone at the
company was working 70+ hours weeks. Leaving was the only option.

Paul

"Shamish" <shchartudi@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:u4mbrb9jrr6r60@corp.supernews.com...
> I'm in the computer field. I think its time the fed. govt stepped in and
> regulated all of this free labor companies are getting. 50, 60, sometimes
70
> hour weeks or more. All for the same salary as a 40 hour week. If you
refuse
> to work over, you get fired. If you take off early, your frowned upon.
There
> is something seriously wrong with that picture.
>
> I ask you. Why in the F**C should I give my time to a business for free? A
> business that, as we all know by the hundreds of thousands of recent
> layoffs, couldn't care less about anything but their own pockets. Can you
> say Enron, Ford, AA, etc. Why? What have these companies done to deserve
> taking a chunk out of my life that doesn't belong to them. They are not
> paying for it. They just take it for free.
>
> And, due to the massive layoffs, this epidemic of employees doing the work
> of three people is growing. It should not be allowed to continue. Now
> companies are even laying off people who have been working 70 hours a week
> anyway! Instead of laying them off. They should have just told the
employee.
> We will let you stay at work 30 hours per week for free, but anything over
> that you are not allowed to come in. That's how ridiculous this situation
> is. These companies are getting away with corporate robbery!
>
> Anything over 40 hours should be paid for. A good service for a good wage.
>
> CHANGE THE EMPLOYMENT LAWS!!!!
>
> Disclaimer: I know this is better than being out of work as many of you
are.
> So please hold your flames. But just because something is 'better,' still
> doesn't make it right.
>
>