Techies Slaving Away

William Hood writes " I wanted to submit this story from CNN about the tendency for IT workers to wind up putting in 60 hour work weeks, that are paid as only 40. This article was enough for me to wonder if it's time to finally bring unions into the tech industry. It is well known that most of the people who work at Microsoft essentially have no life outside of work. I heard a rumor that Bill Gates and friends once called a large meeting on Easter Sunday. While it is true that some techies may put in an entire month of 16 hour days to put some video game on the web to show their friends (I did this once), it is unreasonable that employers expect this of us all the time. We don't need the divorce rate amoung IT professionals to keep going up." S: I notice that my productivity falls and my bug-rate goes up if I overwork. I end up spending even more time trying to fix the bugs I've just introduced -- a nasty vicious cycle. What about you? Also do you think unions would improve matters?