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noahgibbs ([personal profile] noahgibbs) wrote2004-02-13 10:32 am
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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
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[identity profile] hopeforyou.livejournal.com 2004-02-13 11:35 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] r-transpose-p.livejournal.com 2004-02-13 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
God damn.

The whole friggin software industry sucks.

[identity profile] astralagos.livejournal.com 2004-02-15 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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