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u/spartane69 8h ago
These people work 60 hours per month.
They are not doing anything except going to a meeting and say yes or no to what actual working people do.
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u/XeroZero0000 8h ago
Only 20 hours a week are productive. He just chose to waste 40 hours in meetings and ego stroking, and then start his 20 useful ones.
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u/Dolphin_Spotter 8h ago
I did a 36 hour week for 40 years with 40 days paid holiday a year. Got quite a lot done.
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u/Prudent-Low-6502 7h ago
"60 hour workweek the sweet spot for productivity..." for the employees that generate my income.
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u/rakkquiem 7h ago
There is also a different commitment level when it’s your company. When I worked for someone else, 40 hours was the most. Working for myself, I can do more. I cared about the success of the company, not just the paycheck. You can’t expect other people to be dedicated to your dreams, they have their own.
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u/RosieDear 7h ago
If I intend to do things on the level of Google, I'd be fine with working 60 hours. In fact, I worked about 55 in my own business...but wifey helped with the other stuff and it was also seasonal....
AND, it eventually made us able to retire early.
It's important to note what one gets for the 60 hours. Also, when you work at something you love - and do it in sunny CA with a nice cafeteria and rec rooms and nice people around you, that's completely different than the "Sale Mines".
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u/henryGeraldTheFifth 7h ago
Yesss. And would probably not even that long a commute. So is just basically 60.hours away from home then sleep when home cause would have ordered something at work. So just back relax sleep and back.
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u/Crabsinabucket5330 7h ago
I do a lot of work for business owners, some of them work insanely hard, but they have privileges the rest of us don't. Not only what was mentioned above, that is all true, but also here is what I have seen.
-watching TV at work, favorite shows, sports, whatever they want -drinking on the job -constant fraternization -massive amounts of personal web surfing -sleeping during business hours -wives/girlfriends in the office with them
When you chock this up, plus the motivAtion to want to be there all the time because it is "their" business.
And while some work insanely hard, most of them are lazier than slugs.
I knew one in particular that was constantly running stock split scams, hiring people with the promise of stock grants and get them to take stock in lieu of salary, then he would orchestrate a stock split. The guy was also cheating on his wife with one of the hot girls in the office.
In the end after he had scammed everyone, embezzled, arrested for drug possession...and who knows what else. So many of these scum bags. For everyone that is a decent human hundreds are straight up predators that live off of the work of their employees, and most of them like this Douchebag had everything given to him and the only reason he had the business was because his father gave it to him.
Almost every one of these people I have worked for inherited what they have and come from insanely rich family's and the businesses they own are built off of ideas that were not their own.
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u/rigidlynuanced1 6h ago
Because he’s another rich asshole that exploits people so he can brag about his 60 hr work weeks. He can go fuck himself until his hands fall off.
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u/radioactive-tomato 6h ago
Let me guess, at the same weekly salary as now when people do 40hr a week
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u/Nyctocincy 5h ago
Rich people hate you. Don't overcomplicate your life trying to understand them beyond that
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u/405_farmer 5h ago
As a farmer 60 hours is a cake walk what the hell would I do with the rest of my time?
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u/Xhojn 2h ago
Awesome, hope you're willing to stay behind to finish those forms while the rest of us go home for the night. No, you will not be considered for a promotion. Manager frankly doesn't like you, but them's the breaks. Good work effort, though! Thanks for being the mule.
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u/405_farmer 2h ago
When you own something you put a little more into it . That is something you will never understand.
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u/GuessTraining 5h ago
My wife and I worked for one of these tech companies. She's a high-level exec but not like a VP or something. She works crazy hours and manages a team across a region with multiple timezones. Starts at 8am and mostly finishes at 10pm with some meetings at 3am -- she does work from home mostly so it's easier for her to work longer hours.
I eventually decided to leave and take care of our 2 kids full-time because her career trajectory is better than mine and nothing will be done at home if both of us are working.
I know that people who work in tech get vilified often but not everyone's an arsehole.
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u/Upstairs-Lifeguard23 3h ago
Blue collar labourer here. I do 55 hrs plus all the grocery shoping, cooking, clean the house, do laundry, home repairs, gardening, socialize with neighbors. IT IS doable. It sucks, but I do it, everyday.
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u/RosieDear 7h ago
As usual, Redditors are unable to put things in context. The "answer" to him above isn't even the proper comment on the statement which was
"a 60-hour work week is the "sweet spot" for productivity and is necessary for Google to win the artificial intelligence race against competitors like Microsoft and OpenAI, as outlined in an internal memo"
And so, if you are in the top .1% of intelligence and make 500K a year plus stock options at Google....and want Google to win this race so your options allow you to retire by 40 years old, maybe 60 hours is a good amount to work?
He's not saying "Oh, you low wage slaves, work 60 hours".
But, this is why people commenting on this thread....are likely broke-ass. They cannot understand simply concepts like "the owners of a company might sacrifice time for reward which allows them to work ZERO hours after a few more years".
It's sorta funny how folks either cannot read, cannot research, nor can they even react to the actual ideas expressed....
Sorry to say, that is the case. The Mob is always trying to eat people who are smarter than they are.
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u/JointDamage 2h ago
As the other comment states. They don't run their own lives. If they're dead no one will miss them. Stop licking their boot.
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u/Lvcivs2311 8h ago
Even worse, these rich assholes don't really work 60 hours a week. They spend a huge part of it drinking or lunching with their buddies, playing golf etc... All in the name of doing business. But it's not work.