After a fire ravages a forest, rich new growth eventually sprouts from the ashes. Someday the Pentagon will be repaired, something new will be built on the World Trade Center site, and the scar on Pennsylvania land will fade. Those physical renewals will take time. So, too, will financial and emotional healing. But seedlings are being planted now.
Stories abound of corporate and individual efforts to regenerate the forest floor.
You can quit. One of the most misunderstood rules of the workplace involves required overtime. Federal law says employers must pay time and a half to hourly workers who are asked to put in more than a 40-hour workweek, but the law doesn't limit the ability to demand overtime or the amount.