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I feel like this sorry of thing happens more and more these days and I don't think it's going to stop. At my previous job, when we became a private company in 2012, there was this sort of "let's all tough it out [working a ton] for the sake of building the business" during the "honeymoon" phase. The honeymoon ended, the demand never did. It wasn't necessarily about doing more work than your role was meant for, but most of us were just too overworked, too underappreciates. That's where I relate to that article; for a while you can handle the grateful attitude from an employer, but then it just doesn't work anymore. You realize you are putting in way more than you expected, and for the most part all you get is "thank you's" and an attempt at this "you're part of building something" attitude that is supposed to make you feel satisfied while realizing you're overworked constantly.
I think employees bring it on themselves too, to a degree. For the past few years in the bad economy, it's all too easy to think "I'm just lucky to have a job" and tolerate working too much and too hard, and not getting paid what you think you should be making.