You, after work. Photo by Craig Moe.

You, after work. Photo by Craig Moe.

D.C. is the ninth-hardest working city in America, according to the real estate blog Movoto, which clearly doesn’t know how much you suffer for your employer.

Movoto looked at seven factors: average hours worked per week, unemployment rate, commute time, employed workers per household, hours volunteered per year, lack of sleep (or “number of days in a month that person reported not getting enough sleep”) and cost of living. Based on this, the site determined that the people of Seattle; Arlington, Texas; Fort Worth, Texas; Austin Texas; San Jose, Calif.; San Francisco; Dallas; and Virginia Beach work harder than the poor worker bees in D.C. Not to sound like the middle Brady daughter, but Texas, Texas, Texas!

Out of 50 cities, D.C. ranked fairly low for unemployment (35th) and workers per household (41st), and fairly high for cost of living (5th) and commute (4th). This makes sense. But how did Washington rank 18 in hours per week worked when we’re all constantly checking our email, even in our sleep? Does that time you took a work call during your birthday dinner mean nothing to the Bureau of Labor Statistics? Getting back to sleep: D.C. ranked 16th on that front. To protest this list, let’s all leave work early and take an angry nap.