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Oh there's certainly a lot you can do about it. You can refuse and you can just quit your job. Nobody can force you to work 80 hours if you don't want to.
Technically correct, and that is the intended spirit of "at-will" - but that's the very thing I disagree with. I need this job, and it would represent an immense hardship personally to have to drop everything and find a new job which might not necessarily be any better.
We need more serious protections against that. At the very least, firings should always have a valid reason, and I shouldn't have to fear getting cut when I tell my employer to pound sand after they try to double my hours. There should be a cap to begin with on uncompensated hours.