I see what you're getting at, but if you re-read my original statement you'll see that I'm targeting people that complain about working more than 40 hours.
I don't count hours, but I do notice people that clock in/out, and I definitely notice people that complain about having to work more than 40.
Why would anyone be hurt/surprised that people don't necessarily like donating hundreds of hours of their time to their employer for no additional pay?
If you are the owner, then it totally makes sense to not count your hours since you reap what you sow.
If you're nothing but an employee (without any incentives such as stocks), I don't see why you would continuously do overtime.
And as another user said, if your employees need to continuously do some overtime, there's a bigger issue underlying.
I agree, I wrote this comment on another thread before:
One thing to remember in all these discussions
about working hours is that its one thing to work
for yourself and another to work for someone else.
I've done both. When you work for yourself you
don't take much time off until things are going
well, and its not a problem. I think the problem
arises when people who own the business
genuinely can't understand why everybody else
doesn't want to put in the same hours that they
do. It's about ownership. Doesn't mean that
employees can't be very productive for 8 hours
and then go home and do their own thing. e.g.
take their kids to sport or music, contribute to
voluntary organisations, work on a side project.
