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Comment on Google’s Sergey Brin Says Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI That Could Replace Them

My CEO is starting to get ideas. I work at a startup, and recently they have been floating 60-80 hour work weeks. So far it has been an idle threat and is really just their hail Mary play, but big players doing this shit is really worrying as far as normalizing it.

I’m more productive than ever, and the punishment seems to be piling on even more work in order to chase those short term profits.

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Heyting@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Unionise your workplace and force your bosses to respect your time.

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quetzaldilla@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Don’t comply.

Happened to us, we checked out mentally and now we do not bother to get anything done.

They are trying to buy us back, threaten us, beg us.

Sentiment all around my team is:

“I don’t want to work like this anymore.”

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peregrin5@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I mean if they increase my pay by 50-100%, I’ll “work” 60-80 hours. By which I mean continue to work 20 hours and pretend to work the rest of the time I say I’m working, while collecting the extra money.

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blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
How many people are you?

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