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Just because you are willing to work until you're too burned out to enjoy your family time and hobbies doesn't mean that you should expect others to sacrifice their personal lives for your company's benefit.
To most of us, a job is just the thing that provides enough money to have a personal life. When the job consistently encroaches on the personal life, it's time to find a new job.
Paul
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Ten-hour days, 5 days a week, are not uncommon here. It's due to the nature of the application we support. We're not paid OT, but our annual compensation is quite good...and we get a bonus (2-weeks of pay) every year. Also, our annual reviews, if good (and they usually are), can add 3-5% a year as well...so no one complains.
What does an agnostic, dyslexic, insomniac do?
He lies awake at night wondering if there's a dog.
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Expecting your employees to work overtime here and there....what does that mean? Some managers say that to indicate 3 or 4 overtime days a year, some take it to mean 1 or 2 overtime days a week. "If it's a deathmarch..."? Deathmarches are indicators of organizational incompetence, 19 times out of 20.
When I was first learning SQL, my boss at that time was upset with me because I was often late in the morning (at that time, I was just beginning to accept that Hell was coming to breakfast as my first wife declined from damage due to a brain tumor and its subsequent treatment), so he refused to give me a project in SQL where one component was running way too long (it needed to finish in less than an hour, and was running about an hour and a half for some branches). He gave it to my colleague V, who spent a week and got maybe a 10% increase in performance. He then gave it to D, who got no further improvement in about ten days. Then, finally, he gave it to me...and I got an 80% drop in the time taken by the procedure after TWO days of work.
Overtime is meaningless, mister. Productivity is king. My boss eased up on arrival time complaints (giving me a moderately flexible arrival time) and both of us were happier. Tell me, are you rewarding your high producers, even if they don't work extra hours? If not, your priorities may need a revalution.
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Does that mean that if an employee left a couple of hours early here and there they would be justified in expecting you to pay them for time not worked?
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What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
So if you boss expects you to put in overtime he shouldn't complain if you need to leave on occasions.
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