...Beginning next week "all overtime going forward will be entirely optional, so if we want to work the extra hours and earn the extra money (As well as make yourself look better for progression)...

Here's an idea: you get considered for "progression" when you do the work you were hired to do, doing it well and during the agreed upon work week.

Me thinks someone did not do so well in psych 101. Just because you do not understand something does not mean it is a pseudoscience. There is plenty of biomedical (e.g., structural and functional brain studies), behavioral, and genetic research that converge on the same conclusions, conducted by people with big egos who have no interest is propping up other peoples cute little pet theories. In other word, the science of psychological disorders is cut-throat and you better have evidence to support you're claim or else you will be intellectually mowed down and decapitated. This is not a tiny self-contained group of people patting each other on the back and playing a game of "Yes, and...". These are not members of the Lone Gunmen.

If you're just looking to keep abreast of recent/current developments in your favourite science I'd recommend http://www.sciencedaily.com/. It's not comprehensive but it does highlight some of the coolest stuff going on that is of probable interest to edumacated types rather than the great unwashed herds of popular Everyman news about the latest diet pill to lose 50 lbs while eating nothing but pizza and cheeseburgers.

That was my rationale. ...That and an unnatural fascination with Firefly.

Power assisted exoskeleton?! Stay away from me you Bitch!!

Filesystem? I don't need no stinking filesystem.