Imagine your employer wants to pay you only for the time you spend coding. Then, you have to attend a status meeting every day, where everybody reports their pr

Imagine your employer wants to pay you only for the time you spend coding. Then, you have to attend a status meeting every day, where everybody reports their progress. You can report your progress in a couple of minutes, but have to wait for everybody else in the room does so as well, and the room is a big one. Now, your employer claims that since you are not coding there (no laptops allowed in, sorry), you will not receive compensation, because you are paid to code, not to attend meetings. When you claim that it is part of your position duties to attend the meeting, the boss subtly changes the subject and says that it is normal in every industry for people to have to provide status reports when requested by their superiors, and that you should not demand to be paid extra money for that. Then you sue... and businessweek.com writes an article with precisely the title line that makes you look the most like an entitled asshole. Now you know what it feels like to be a warehose worker at Amazon.