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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Beta by Anonymous Coward · 2014-02-15 08:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic

A badge of failure.
1. Re:Beta by edibobb · 2014-02-15 09:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  I tried to mod up, but it's broken.
Re:You sir, are an amateur troll. by Assmasher · 2014-02-15 11:43 · Score: -1, Offtopic

So, let me get this straight, you're saying that BETA SUCKS?

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