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Are 12-16 Hour Workdays Productive?
theodp writes " It's important to me,' former Opsware CEO Ben Horowitz recalls saying as he threatened a manager for termination because one of his subordinates failed to conduct 1:1 meetings, 'that the people who spend 12 to 16 hours/day here, which is most of their waking life, have a good life. It's why I come to work.' Ben seems to be cut from the same management cloth as new Yahoo CEO Marissa 'I-Don't-Really-Believe-In-Burnout' Mayer, who boasted how she solved the work-life balance problems of mother-of-three 'Katie,' who was required to attend nightly 1 a.m. video conference calls with her Google Finance team in Bangalore, by no longer making Katie also stay for late meetings on her Google day shift on those occasions where it'd make her miss her kids' soccer games and recitals." Jason Fried, C.E.O. of 37signals, wrote a piece for The New York Times recently singing the praises of working a 4-day week part of the year.
If you spent your time working, instead of posting on slashdot, you wouldn't need to work a 12 hour day. Now get back to work slacker! :p
- I see that you've been missing a lot of work lately.
- I wouldn't say I've been "missing it".
So...you dream up new software in bed?
Sounds like a cushy job...
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
Sure! Spell checkers aren't very good at catching grammer errors and, since I'm now starting my four days off, I'm not willing to waste my free time doing their job for them.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
(mock rage mode on) Why is it that the punks in the Non-USA countries always get to work the "normal" hours and those in the USA have to be the ones getting up in the middle of the night to call the "foreigners" during their day? huh? HUH?
And what is it with these EUROPEAN punks taking vacations all the time calling it HOLIDAY or something? Them Italian punks in their tight jeans and fancy hair taking off AUGUST. What's up with THAT? HUH? Where did all that slackin get you now, huh? You Europeans and all your Financial Crisis and whining. Wah Wah Wah.
Us 'Murricans working all the time never taking vacations, that's what real men do. See? Our country doesn't have any of them so-called financial problems. We just keep working and working and printing more money and we're just Fiiiiiiiine. Yep.
Wait a minute... never mind.
Flappinbooger isn't my real name
"Informative"... that's funny. How do I mod a moderation?
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Working 12-16 hours per day, 5-7 days a week, prevents the workers from having time available to find better jobs. Welcome to your new reality, USA. Freedom in slavery, etc, etc.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Your company is very lucky, those guys from the 1990's don't mind being paid solely in slap bracelets and Milli Vanilli records.
The downside is that he never shuts up about that new OS/2.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?