I see a lot of people talk about 50 or 60-plus hours, and it always surprises me because I’ve never worked more than the standard 40. My reviews have always been great, so I’m genuinely confused about the disconnect.
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All you d-mbasses bragging about this better be doing so from behind a VPN.
@e7 I'm sure there are people working 60 hours a week, or more. But mostly people claiming that are simply doing performance theater. Which, sadly, gets embraced by management 9/10 times.
I've known a lot of people at WF who claim to work like 60 hours a week. In every single case, it's because they login super early, take a 1-2 hour break to take their kids to school, etc., come back, take another long break in the afternoon, check their email after dinner, and act as though they're working that entire time.
I've always been the top or one of the top performers on my team, gotten great ratings, and rarely work more than 40 hours a week. If you can't get your work at WF done in that amount of time, it's a personal failing.
I work 100 hours a week, Charlie
Depends who's asking. The important thing is to remember the first two rules of fight club.
I have a job where people complain about being busy, back logged or slammed. In reality I do that same job in maybe 20 hours a week.
@bh Troll!
The people claiming to work 60 hrs a week regularly are taking the first time each day they do something work related and the last time each day they do something work related and counting every moment between those two times as work. Doesn't matter if they go to the gym, take three lunches, pick up their kids, take a nap, or do a million other things as well during those times. Virtually nobody is consistently starting their day at whatever time and doing a solid twelve hours of actual work five days a week, no matter how many frauds say otherwise. They just come here to whine about how much harder they worked from their couch than they do at the office because their mean old company made them come in to work like the rest of society. Poor oppressed things.
12-14 hours a day. Some weekends. Vacations too. Global, 24/7 LOB.
In every company there are people working a lot of hours and people working even fewer hours than you. It’s determined based on the dynamics/expectations of the leaders in your team - sometimes called “culture”. You shouldn’t question why some people work 60 hours because you haven’t been subjected to those circumstances that make 60 hours acceptable in that culture.
I've automated like 50% of my job, and working on automating more. I work maybe 5 hours a week + 15 hours in meetings that I barely listen to. The rest of the time I am jiggling to avoid detection by the activity surveillance.
Hey, Captain Empathy, some people have have jobs where they contacted "after hours" by their bosse, clients, or colleagues. Others have work dumped on them with unrealistic deadlines forcing the them to work longer. It's not because they are thrilled to keep working beyond 40.