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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Yes, only 30 minutes for lunch (and they CLOCK it) so it's 9-5, 40 hours. 
They increased my workload. I handled it. I wish I were indispensable, but of course--no one is. Or as Charles de Gaulle said, "The graveyards are full of indispensable people."
I dream of working in government. I know very talented, hard-working people who do, and who are rewarded with more flexibility than my company allows or has ever allowed. They work very, very hard and get abused (by the media, etc.) all the time. Of course, there are slackers, as there are anywhere, but if you want to see hard workers: check out the national park service, the social security administration, the federal trade commission, the national endowment for the arts, etc. I would love to join their ranks. Sigh. 
There might soon be a change in management --everyone is on edge. I'm hoping it might be someone who understands what it's like to be a working mom of a young child. 
Why does the workplace in this country make it so difficult to be a good mother and a good worker? It's HARD here. It used to be more balanced, I think--but now it's "lean in" or go home. [/quote]

Progress on this issue happened in US between 1860s and 1930s largely due to unions and a culture that supported the notion that you should help your neighbor.   Also there were still large amounts of legal immigration during these periods but number of jobs largely kept pace and there were no structured gov subsidies to bring in guest workers.  It was legal and structured and not focused on providing guest workers for large multi-national companies that were based in India.

[i]The United States Adamson Act in 1916 established an eight-hour day, with additional pay for overtime, for railroad workers. This was the first federal law that regulated the hours of workers in private companies. The United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Act in Wilson v. New, 243 U.S. 332 (1917).  The eight-hour day might have been realized for many working people in the U.S. in 1937, when what became the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S. Code Chapter 8) was first proposed under the New Deal. As enacted, the act applied to industries whose combined employment represented about twenty percent of the U.S. labor force. In those industries, it set the maximum workweek at 40 hours,[16] but provided that employees working beyond 40 hours a week would receive additional overtime bonus salaries.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day

With all the guest workers and H1Bs taking low level IT jobs and the F1 students taking the college postions/TA jobs , the average IT worker in USA just keeps getting screwed and screwed.

At one point in our culture, workers supported and fought for each other.  Now it is every woman for herself.
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