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"Everything is Urgent (but takes forever)" Sounds like my first job out of college (it was early 1990s, big consulting shop). There was a ton of pressure to a

"Everything is Urgent (but takes forever)" Sounds like my first job out of college (it was early 1990s, big consulting shop). There was a ton of pressure to arrive early, stay late, 55-60 hour weeks were normal, continually document progress on your tasks, but the project overall was well behind schedule and what had been completed didn't really work. We got paid straight overtime after 40 hours, and I didn't have much else to do with my time, so it wasn't all bad. I only did it for about a year. It was a good reference for my next job. Young people can afford a few years in the salt mines to get some perspective.

RandallBrown 5y ago
I worked on a big team at Microsoft about 8 years ago. The overall project was behind so they started buying us dinner every night until we could stay late and get back on schedule. The sub team that I worked on wasn't behind at all so I just went home like normal every day. After a few days of this my manager pulled me aside saying that some of the higher ups had noticed I wasn't staying late with the rest of the team. Of course I wasn't. I didn't have any work to do. I started showing up to the team dinners, but it seems the damage was done. My next review went poorly and I immediately started looking for a new job because I didn't want to deal with that bullshit anymore. Coincidentally, I believe that was the last review Microsoft did with their infamous stack ranking so maybe the next one would have gone better.