[youreth4tguy]

I laugh at Americans mocking Europeans because "they're not willing to work hard" - two reasons:

1. Salaries are shit here anyways, and any additional money you make beyond say 60k (!) is taxed at 40% or higher. 2. For compliance reasons, if you spend more than 8h in the office between "badge in" and "badge out", HR will tell you to work less because the company will get into legal trouble otherwise. It is just prohibited and you will just create headaches for everyone including yourself.

[slackito]

Depending on which European country it's not necessarily forbidden. "Compliance reasons" may also mean "the company must pay overtime at the appropriate rate" and they just don't want to deal with that.