I believe you. I started my new job a little over 3 months ago and I haven't taken a lunch break yet. I haven't done the job I was hired to do, either. The boss laughingly said after I was hired: "here's what we are going to have you do" and then proceeded to give me all the tasks that (I can tell) no one else wants to do. The day someone told me my going to the restroom would be timed is the day I would urinate in my pants and sit there the rest of the day, soaking wet, doing the job (I wasn't hired to do.) And I still say that the problems I see on the job are fixable. But management has to get its head out of the sand and be willing to admit they've lost track of the reality of the situation. As you said: "It's nuts, but if you don't adjust, they say you are nuts, and if you do adjust, that's not so great either." I don't ever want to adjust to lying, cheating, and mistreating people.