60 Hour Workweek? Luxury! When I Was an Apple Engineer, I Had to Start My Shift a Half-Hour Before I Ended it …

Slapped with a class-action lawsuit alleging it illegally deprived some 32,000 employees of overtime pay, IBM conceived of a novel solution: It settled the suit for $65 million. And then it slashed the base pay of the employees who filed it by 15 percent.