If your company requires you to work nights and weekends, your company is broken

https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1209115637148274690

by john200ok • 7 years ago

69 1 7 years ago

Or should be compelled to pay double time for anything over 40 hours. No excuses. Management need to learn how to actually manage. I'm looking at you games industry. Yeah I'll single you out but there are plenty of other examples. Theyre the ones who are angry reading this as they are repulsed by the waste of time.

Lets explore a few aspects, then...

If you're working more than 40 hours your "real world" suddenly involves much less community involvement. Your family has less time together. Interests other than work suffer. You probably don't have any civic involvement. Probably spending a lot of time in "junk time" activities. Sport/exercise is likely limited to squeazing in lunch time or other oddball times. A bunch of long term issues are likely chasing you even without your knowledge.

Everyone is different, I get it. Just don't think that 80 hour week doesn't have long term impacts. Hopefully the exchange is worthwhile to you. It had better be, you'll be paying 2x somehow in some way. And someone will receive the benefit of your lost time.

If your company requires you to work nights and weekends, your company is broken

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