Depends where you work, I suppose. I just got told that 8-6 was the standard working day around here, and that I need to start coming in earlier, or it would start to reflect poorly on me. Glad I'm leaving soon.
Is that a startup or established business?
It would be <redacted>, a very well known large software company, that deals primarily in online sales.
If the employer is in California, and if you are making less than 88K a year, what they are doing may be illegal (IANAL) http://www.dir.ca.gov/t8/11170.html
We're based in Seattle. I don't think there's much to be done, except leave.
At this point, "salaried-exempt" status should just be eliminated. The "exemptions" from the FLSA now make up the majority of the full-time workforce.
Mandatory Scrums scheduled daily for 8am. But they aren't compliance status meetings....they're agile.