On: How do you make programmers work 60-80 hours per w...

[coldtea]

>I was fired a few months later, with the main reason being that I usually left the office 9 or 10 hours after coming in and only occasionally worked the 12+ hour days that the rest did.

Such practices are illegal (or at least frowned upon) in most of the civilized world.

[rhapsodic → coldtea]

> Such practices are illegal (or at least frowned upon) in most of the civilized world.

It's called "employment-at-will", and it's not that uncommon.