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[noahgibbs]

I don't put in 18+-hour days at work very often. This is one more way to discover that on my team at NVidia, I'm definitely a slacker.

And I'm currently creeping from "18" to "+". Sleep before this evening will be a good and advisable thing.

Fricken' customers :-P

Comments

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

Why is it so insane there? And um...is that legal? I thought labour hours made regular 18 hour days illegal. Or something. Sounds like overkill.

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[zqfmbg.livejournal.com]

Projects, customer demands, deadlines, stuff like that. Though even I think 18+ hours is excessive. (The longest I've been here in one go was 14 hours, and that was mostly because I hit a groove and became superproductive, although a looming deadline had something to do with it too.)

The thing is, around here, there are people who happily spend weekends and holidays in the office, and there are people who seem to be on 30-hour days (or worse). While it's understandable that some may not want to "compete" with these guys, in general, most of the office puts in somewhat more than 40 hours a week, and if you're not doing the same then you're not pulling around the same around of weight.

[r-transpose-p.livejournal.com]

God damn.

The whole friggin software industry sucks.

[astralagos.livejournal.com]

I feel at this point I should mention that my last boss quite literally worked himself to death. I'd be hard pressed to find any job worth that amount of labor.

Of course, an interesting way to look at it is to calculate your actual salary. Let's see, 14 hours a day works out to 70 hours a week, which when you calculate overtime means that you're working 85 hours a week as far as salary is concerned. So technically, your hourly salary is 1/2.12 times what you probably think you're getting.

Never has there been an industry that demanded unions, and never have the members of that industry been dedicated to promulgating their own misery as long as possible.