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Yes. Yes it is reasonable. A startup is hiring people to perform a job in exchange for compensation. If they want you to work weekends, they can pay a fair mar
by edent 11y ago
Yes. Yes it is reasonable. A startup is hiring people to perform a job in exchange for compensation. If they want you to work weekends, they can pay a fair market rate for that.
Or they can hire more people.
In some countries, it's extremely unusual to perform overtime. If a startup has 10 employees and they each do an hour of overtime a week - they're effectively denying another worker a job.
Yes, it's a bit "mythical man month" - but if there's too much work to go around, your employer needs to hire more people.
- cromulent 11y agoPerhaps you meant an hour of overtime per day.
- edent 11y agoIndeed!
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- chrisan 11y ago> Yes. Yes it is reasonable. Reasonable, sure. But is it realistic when we have things like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11430596 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11430596 ?
- thecatspaw 11y agoWhat about your own startup?
- untog 11y agoI don't think reasonable is a good word, here. Of course it's reasonable. But when all your other coworkers are 20-something singles who can and will stay to 9pm, how do you remain "competitive"? Obviously, ideally none of this would be necessary. But alas...