> brutal mandatory crunch It was my understanding that they asked people to work an extra 8 hours per week (the maximum under Polish law, for no more than 150

> brutal mandatory crunch It was my understanding that they asked people to work an extra 8 hours per week (the maximum under Polish law, for no more than 150 hours per year) and paid extra for it (again, as required by law). While this is definitely not ideal and crunch is, IMHO, due to project mismanagement, especially after promising they wouldn't, but I wouldn't exactly call this "brutal", especially considering that covid has messed up many people's plans. Now, if non-polish contractors got a worse deal, I don't know...