alter_ego

This. I worked hard for my place in the team. My boss and I are the two women in our small close-knit team, and we recently had trouble with another women who joined and started causing a lot of 'equality' noise and troubles. She did all this despite it being the most meritocratic place I have worked.

I would love to see a mandatory scheme whereby employees are free to work more than forty hours per week should they wish to do so, or are required to do so, but overtime payments are guaranteed, on an increasing scale, so by the time the employer has their staff working 100 hours per week they have had to pay more than say 6 weeks salary, possibly 8. This would quickly shake out the bulk of big corps who simply encourage presenteeism and other negative cultures.