I once had a job that was working me every single day 9 hours a day because they would not replace the 4th employee who quit, running a 24/7 location.
I told them that if they didn’t hire somebody I would quit.
I gave them a week and they hadn’t even made an attempt to hire anybody.
I offered to the manager that two days a week we would each take a 12-hour shift, so that each of us in turn would get one full day off each week.
My manager said no.
To my manager’s shock and surprise I quit on the spot, and my manager and my coworker each got to work a 12-hour shift for the next 6 weeks every single day until the other person quit and they had to close the business down until they hired in replacements.
This is some self imposed (not you) dystopian stupidity. Good on you for giving them warning, telling them straight, and then following through. Hope you went on to better and brighter things.
Oh yeah. I work a flat 40 sitting on my ass and make about 10x what I did then.
I definitely had to go through a lot of shit but that one was probably some of the worst of it job-wise.
Hell I didn’t even own a car at the time but that walk home was the most baller stroll I’ve ever had in my life.
I got home, told my girlfriend at the time I had quit my job and then I went and slept for 14 hours without a care in the world, and then the next day I went out and found a job that paid a dollar an hour more.
Fucking hell how are people this fucking dense 🤦♂️
This is so absurd to me. What kind of small business need to be open 24/7?
Diners. Manufacturers. Some service-providers.
Often, staffing is the #1 concern as a small business develops, so having the capital to pay enough employees is a big deal. This owner completely failed to plan.
Genuine next-level stupidity.
Walmart used to have lots of locations open 24/7. Gas stations, restaurants, and various places in heavy tourist areas like New York or Vegas or LA.
Let me guess, the ones pushing hardest for this are the ones that won’t be affected by it?
Arentou kidding? There’s loads of profits to be made here.
to compete with leading economies.
…most of whom work 36-40 hour weeks or less with two days off and a lot more leave
Doing the wrong thing harder won’t lift you up, sweetheart
India wants its china/korea/japan moment where its economy rapidly grows. The problem is that rapid economy growth down the line has a drastic effect on population growth down the line.
Literally had that since the 00’s, the gdp is practically a vertical line
since the '00s*
Should… should…. we tell them that hours worked doesn’t equate to productivity?
It may not equate to more productivity, but it equates to more billable hours.
It does when most of your country has very little technology. India is predominantly rural, still, somehow
https://tradingeconomics.com/india/rural-population-percent-of-total-population-wb-data.html#:~:text=Rural population (%25%20of%20total,compiled%20from%20officially%20recognized%20sources.
The guy co-founded Infosys, which is known for slave driving their employees just so they can get more and more contractors into a project. Their quality of work is absolute dog shit. Not because the people aren’t capable, but because the company’s culture doesn’t promote/allow for high quality work. This isn’t unique to Infosys, this is true for HCL and TCS as well which are some of the biggest services companies in India.
Farmers and other professions already work as much as they need to work to generate their output.
There’s been numerous studies that have shown that peak productivity goldilocks zone is somewhere between 30 to 35hrs, which is why exploration of 4 day workweeks are a thing in advanced economies.
I’m not arguing in favor of it, I’m explaining why he’s in favor of it.
I think hes crazy.
It’s a gross perspective this person must have to say this with a straight face. The reasoning really shows how out of touch with the harsh reality many people live in.
We should be striving for more free time, and life enjoyment.
How about this guy goes outside to play hide-n-go-fuck-yourself.
I am stealing this.
I worked 70-90 hour weeks for 3 years. I was basically a zombie, never saw friends or family, any downtime I had was purely for rest. I eventually snapped, moved halfway across the country and took a job for significantly less pay but half the hours and I’m much happier now.
Burning out your entire workforce is a fantastic idea /s
The world must stop measuring success by growth.
FYI, Infosys is the family firm of the wife of current British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak.
Reading articles like this makes it clear how backwards his policies and view of the working class is.
Well they voted for him.
Not really. He was unelected; took the job over from Liz Truss, who was prime minister for only 49 days, after taking on the job from Boris Johnson who resigned after a string of embarrassing decisions and an absolutely marvellous display of incompetence and inability to perform even at a basic level at his job.
Boris, also unelected, took on the job from Theresa May, who took over the job from David Cameron, who resigned right after saying “we’re going to hold a referendum on Brexit”, the coward.
It’s been a baton pass from one failure to another, and after 13 years in power, says their party is “The Party of Change”. Change from what? Their own incompetence?
Okay but I’m gonna slack off for like 69 of those hours
This is the way
Nice
Ask his attendance in the Parliament, then we can talk
People like this cunt, and the Elon Musk cunt, and the Steve Jobs cunt and my old boss who was a cunt will pull 14 hour days 7 days a week for 10 years and call you lazy for not doing it.
We should be allowed to say no and have a different opinion.
will pull 14 hour days 7 days a week for 10 years
I mean, sure, they will, but they also spend half of that time socialising, posting on Twitter, going to the gym and generally living life while claiming to be on the clock. Their “70 hours a week” have nothing to do with the “70 hours a week” of an actual working person.
Rich people still work hard. I know that hating rich people is the entire point of this comment, but suggesting that most senior business leaders aren’t absolute workaholics is absurd. Every successful lawyer is an absolute workaholic.
That’s literally the reason the guy from the article believes as he does. He does actually work that much. The weird and fucked up part is him wanting that to be the norm
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if you dedicate every single hour possible to being productive you’re going to burn far sooner than later, and telling people otherwise is going to provoke a lot of pain for no gain
That’s why I said this same thing
The weird and fucked up part is him wanting that to be the norm
Why do you think this is an argument? Did you just stop reading at the first sentence?
i wanna make this very clear. i never wanted to exist, and i don’t want to exist. the only reason i choose to is because my parents exist.
You should seek help.
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Jesus fucking Christ what is this comment
I wish I knew, it just says there is no record of this comment.
Tewari further said that he works even on Sundays and doesn’t even remember when he last took off on the weekend.
Yes, it’s visible. In your face.
That’s amazing. Just think about all that needful that will get done and shipped overseas.
😂😂😂
No need to revert back in this case. At 70 hours/week the needful will surely be done.
I’d be down for this if this also applied to all the CEOs and executives.
In fact, let’s make them come back to the office too - and make it mandatory that they have to be in their office working for ~12 hours a day 6 days a week with a 1 hour lunch break.
And I want daily status updates on all tasks completed
Woah, you wanna let a whole day go by?! Every 6 hours I need an email status update. But, if you forget to send an email, I know you’re not doing good work. Then, at the end of the day I can ask you in person about the contents of your emails that I didn’t read.
Doesn’t help when your CTO’s weekly newsletter always has some vacation photos…
