Here is the long and short of it: I am an exempt employee; I hold a corporate office position. I have just finished a project which required me to work seven days a week, covering 80+ hours a week for nearly 3 months. The overtime total would have accommodated another employee to work seven 40 hour week, just to put it into perspective. During the course of the project, I was led to believe that this was the only way to accomplish this task and that I would not be getting any support resources (i.e. everyone was aware that this was ridiculous, but we "had no choice" other than to prepare for it that way). Refusing to do the work would have created a situation where I would have been in contempt with the demands of my employer. However, I did the work within the parameters and was told twice that compensation (of undertermined value) would be handled when the project was completed. However, it now appears that there is going to be no such action. This schedule included working while ill and immediately following surgery and while I know there is little law violation about exempt employees not being paid for overtime, this seems an offensively barbaric way to manage an employee and I MUST have some kind of rights somewhere. Thanks!

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