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Originally posted by Jim Cesiro
Yes, it did happen and it almost cost me my family trying to keep up with these ego maniacs. They were brag at the end of the year over who had the most o/t. They were idiots because they were not getting paid for it. It seems like it was a badge of honor to rack up a 80+ hour work week.

When I backed out my salary I would be making less the $4 an hour. I lasted there 18 months and quit.

I promised myself to never work that much ever again.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not scared of work, and I have worked like that before. I quit college before I finished and in 2 years worked my way up to manager of a retail auto parts place. I worked as much OT as possible when I was hourly. When I got promoted to manager I put in a lot of hours to turn the store around, the norm was 60-70 hours a week (the mgr schedule was for 50), and that was for about 6 months. I then put in a couple months of 70-90hr weeks, all salaried making 21k a year plus bonuses (about 4-5k a year). At that point I wasn't sure what I needed to do, but I knew that I needed to get out of that crap.

Now, not happening. No way. Bragging about how much unpaid overtime you have. Not! I'd be bursting their bubbles, "Really, I only have X, I was able to leave the office and have a life. What do you have? No more money and a year that's lost that you can't get back." Nope, I've been near/at the bottom, I'm not going back if I can help it. At least you realized it was a problem and got out.