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> Most of us hadn't slept more than an average of 2 hours a night in months. This doesn't pass the sniff test. Not to say that the work in this mysterious comp
by vacri 11y ago
> Most of us hadn't slept more than an average of 2 hours a night in months.
This doesn't pass the sniff test. Not to say that the work in this mysterious company wasn't gruelling, but it makes the numbers suspect.
- thrownaway2424 11y agoMaybe they did all their sleeping in the daytime? But you're right that the whole story has the whiff of b.s.
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- kzhahou 11y agoSniff test, nothing. This is absolutely ludicrous. 20 hour work-days (9am->5am) for months straight??? Gimme a break. You'd be hallucinating on the second week. For the life of me I don't understand how this humble-brag is repeated year after year by people.
- skuhn 11y agoAn occasional 100 hour work week is tough but do-able. Claiming an entire team got an average of 2 hours of sleep a night for months (meaning that some on the team got even less than that) is outright preposterous. It also reeks of "powering through" machismo and I don't believe it happened quite like that. If it did happen though, that is a total failure of leadership. Not only were these people being tormented, they were a danger to themselves and others just driving in to the office every day. Unless the fate of the entire human race relied on the success of their project, everyone involved should have given this ultimatum on the second week of this ordeal: reschedule the project to realistic goals or cancel it entirely, or I quit.
- Evolved 11y agoWe've all heard it and done the collective eye roll when people tell us this. Then there's the equally nausea-inducing douche who claims to work less than 40 hours a week and still pull down a healthy six-figure salary, etc.
- EliRivers 11y agoIt's also a bizarre and somewhat grotesque thing to brag about. I've always been more impressed with successful people who sleep as much as they like because they can afford it, or because they get done in eight hours what sleep-deprived suckers manage in sixteen.
- brianwawok 11y agoFor some reason people like to brag about how many hours they put in. Not sure why. What quality work got put in between hour 80 and 90?
- devonkim 11y agoI put down that I worked a lot as a sign of protest and that I have little confidence in my superiors to manage the business properly, not to indicate that I'm being productive or "better" than anyone or anything.