Don’t take this personally, but you are an IDIOT! Your job is not your identity, and the employer DOES NOT OWN YOU!
45-60 hour weeks are excessive, but SOMETIMES necessary. If you are always working that long, either your employer is taking advantage of you and understaffing, or the product isn’t profitable and you are carrying the company on your time.
Either way, time NOT on the clock is supposed to be just that, not an unpaid “on-call” situation. They want you to be on call, they need to pay you for that.
I agree
Apparently you’ve never worker in a forced-ranking performance evaluation company.
I’m a freelancer, and we fall into that trap easily. Thankfully I’m on the verge of retiring early...but I have no idea what I’ll do with myself.