>They are paying you a complete salary, so they can demand that you put in complete effort. They can "demand" whatever they want. They can demand a pony for al

>They are paying you a complete salary, so they can demand that you put in complete effort. They can "demand" whatever they want. They can demand a pony for all I care. I provide what I want, and that's not always 40 hours a week. If it's still worth it to them to employ me, then they may continue to do so. That's all there is to it. Let's not grant the corporation too much moral high ground. They routinely ask people for more than forty of those hours. Let's not pretend someone is a reprobate for granting fewer. It's pointless to act like they have a moral right to a specific number of hours simply because that's the convention or because that's what they wrote in an employment agreement that grants you nothing in consideration for your concessions. I work, you pay me. If you don't like my work, fire me. I'll do my work in as many or as few hours as I please. Those are the terms I'll abide by. Don't get me wrong, I understand the incredible luck I have to be able to operate this way. Only the strength of the seller's market that is software labor, and my own financial prudence, allows me this freedom. But it is a freedom I feel no reluctance, moral or otherwise, to exercise.