A few days of work-related sleep-deprivation (crunch time?) can very easily lead to death. Doing the same amount of work over the span of a week or two usually won’t.
Who said anything about being allowed to work an employee so hard they cant sleep or need to cut their sleep short… no one in this thread… again why are you bringing up things no one is even discussing? To what end?
I’m disagreeing with the implication that there’s anything approaching equality in the power dynamics involved. What reprocity there is doesn’t reach that far.
I pointed out the pay worked both ways, you work extra days you dont get extra pay, you dont work a day you dont get less pay. That is a correct statement, full stop. Why your going off on matters of equality int he power dynamic makes no sense, I get your trying to make that point, but that point is not even being discussed in the thread, so what makes you feel that is in any way relevant to what I said?
Your position seems to rely on what, to me, is a fairly absurd expectation one can find work that is non-straining, pleasant and not under abusive conditions.
Certainly describes most job I ever worked, it also describes about 15 positions I’m hiring for right now, at least to most people. Me and my team are having a blast, I feel bad though that you’ve never found that, truly.
In quite a few places, that would be a few hours. That adds up, especially with commute.
As you pointed out, spread out is not the same as all at once. an hour extra here and there does not add up to sleep deprivation and failing organs, especially when its offset with paid vacations.