According to Barbara Ehrenreich (who wrote Nickel and Dimed, an excellent book) in Those Corporate Homewreckers, there are two types of employers who are ruining this country:

I’m thinking of two categories of employers, which often overlap: 1) Those who don’t pay enough for their employees to live on, thus forcing them to work second jobs, and 2) those who abuse their salaried employees with expectations of 10 or more hours of work per day. Apparently there are more and more such anti-family employers, as Americans now surpass even the famously workaholic Japanese in annual hours on the job….

…All variety of things suffer when work expands to fill evenings and weekends — health, for example, and citizenly participation. How can you frame an opinion on the issues if you never get a chance to read or have long discussions with friends?

But families — and especially children — take the worst hit. It’s just not possible to be a responsible and responsive parent or spouse if your work leaves you with barely enough time to shower.

Sadly, I think many of us have had both types of employers.

Thanks to Ann, aka Granny for the post.