Your 60-Hour Work Week Is Not a Badge of Honor

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday February 15, 2014 @08:53AM from the unless-you're-part-of-a-really-terrible-branch-of-the-boy-scouts dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We've all had to deal with long, tough work weeks, whether it's coming in on the weekend to meet a project deadline, pulling all-nighters to resolve a crisis, or the steady accretion of overtime in a death march. It's fairly common in the tech sector for employees to hold these tough weeks up as points of pride; something good they achieved or survived. But Jeff Archibald writes that this is the wrong way to think of it. 'If you're working 60 hours a week, something has broken down organizationally. You are doing two people's jobs. You aren't telling your boss you're overworked (or maybe he/she doesn't care). You are probably a pinch point, a bottleneck. You are far less productive. You are frantically swimming against the current, just trying to keep your head above water. ... We need to stop being proud of overworking ourselves.'"

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Re:It's a status thing by sjames · 2014-02-15 10:13 · Score: 5, Informative

Believe it! That's why Walmart and McDonald's HR include people to help you get food stamps. They know they don't pay well enough to actually live. The expectations are food that is legal to buy for human consumption and housing that hasn't been condemned as uninhabitable.
The car thing is seriously variable. Housing where public transportation is available tends to cost more than housing without it, but then you need a car.