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> 20-hour days are not actually worked, not even by slave labor. Then you've never been there. Yes, they are. Have done it many times.
by nkoren 9y ago
> 20-hour days are not actually worked, not even by slave labor.
Then you've never been there. Yes, they are. Have done it many times.
- hnzix 9y agoI've worked 36 hours straight in the days before I knew better. And I got off lightly compared to my friends the game industry.
- biztos 9y agoSo have I, but not as a regular thing. Working "20-hour days" implies it's regular, and that means -- assuming no commute -- you're sleeping max 3 hours a night, which is pretty messed up. o/t but I'm surprised this random comment touched a nerve here...
- berberous 9y agoI think you just read it differently than the rest of us. I read Arrington as saying she worked the occasional 20-hr day regularly. In other words, during particularly bad stretches, which were fairly frequent, but not every day. I agree that almost nobody could actually sustain working 20-hr days every single day.
- biztos 9y agoI've been a lot of places, and I have some experience with sleep deprivation. One ought not assume too much. If you're regularly working 20-hour days, as opposed to the occasional all-nighter, then you're not doing anyone any favors -- not your company, not your friends/spouses/children, not yourself. But anyway I was alluding to the tendency to boast about how little one sleeps...
- Amezarak 9y agoI wish companies understood this. Part of my boring non-startup job consists of occasional weeklong sprees of 20+ hours/day, staying on the jobsite the entire week, with no additional compensation. I'm definitely dead inside by the weekend, and noticeably affected after the first day. The logistics of what I do probably really does make it somewhat of a necessity, but I wish there was at least provisions for comp time afterwards or at least some kind of bonus pay.
- bojackstorkman 9y agoThat sounds like wage theft.