Swing weekends, and I only got two days off in a row twice a month, which all compounds to make you feel as though you never leave work.  To top it off, they made us work holidays, incuding Christmas.

I don't think that the extent to which the "flexibility" that creative scheduling gives employers power over their workers lives far in excess of anything appropriate in a democracy is fully understood unless you've lived it.  

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg