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Sorry if you don't believe me. I have done this, and I will do this again. If a company expects me to put in extra effort at busy times of the year, it is only

Sorry if you don't believe me. I have done this, and I will do this again. If a company expects me to put in extra effort at busy times of the year, it is only fair that they are OK with me doing a 30 hour work week some weeks to take care of issues that came up while I was working that 80 hours. Edit: To be clear, the companies where I quit when they had no empathy were body-shops.

cynicalkane 13y ago
It sounds like you quit because they were expecting some 80 hour work weeks without recompense.
- justrudd 13y ago
  It was the end of a deadline that "we couldn't miss". My sump pump had actually died, and I needed to replace it. Bought the replacement, but sat on it for several weeks because "we couldn't miss the deadline". Those last 3 weeks, I was working 7 days a week for about 15 hours a day. When I got home, I ate, crashed on my couch, slept, and went back to work. Once the release "we couldn't miss" was done, I stayed home one day and put in my sump pump. The next day I was told to record the 8 hours as PTO. So given that I had just worked 300 hours in 3 weeks, but they wouldn't bend on 8? Yeah...I quit. And I'm glad I replaced the sump pump. It rained for 3 weeks straight after I gave notice. Oh yeah. The deadline "we couldn't miss"? It got pushed 3 weeks. The writing was on the wall for what they expected. But I was young and "stupid" living under the auspice of my father's work life (2 jobs his whole life - 20 years in the Army and 20 years for the State of Alabama). So I worked the hours because I wanted to be the team player. I wanted to help. In the end, I was shown that the relationship was one way. So now I'm old and more careful and less willing to put up with one-sided relationships.
  - x0x0 13y ago
    wow 7 days a week and canned for a day off? That should prompt anyone with self respect or integrity to walk out the door and drop emails asking for help or pointers with the codebase.
    - justrudd 13y ago
      To be fair, I wasn't canned. I did quit. And I did give them the rest of the week (Tuesday - Friday) on a strict 8 hour workday.
      - Peaker 13y ago
        Which company was it? They sound like they deserve the bad publicity. You might save someone else from ending up there too...
        justrudd 13y ago
        It was Splatter Consulting in RTP. They don't exist anymore. They shutdown probably 7 months after I walked. This was back in '98. The deadline "we couldn't miss" was to build a product. This product would move them from consulting to a product company. It was actually a neat product. Had to do with camera optic systems. Writing software that interacts with hardware was really cool. It still is, but I've gotten lazy and enjoy being wasteful using a whole byte for a boolean and what not... After I left, it was probably 4 months before everyone but the 2 sales guys and President were laid off. They lasted 3 more months before folding. I actually left a good job to take this one. Lured me away with money :) Like I said - young and stupid.

cynicalkane 13y ago

It sounds like you quit because they were expecting some 80 hour work weeks without recompense.

justrudd 13y ago
It was the end of a deadline that "we couldn't miss". My sump pump had actually died, and I needed to replace it. Bought the replacement, but sat on it for several weeks because "we couldn't miss the deadline". Those last 3 weeks, I was working 7 days a week for about 15 hours a day. When I got home, I ate, crashed on my couch, slept, and went back to work. Once the release "we couldn't miss" was done, I stayed home one day and put in my sump pump. The next day I was told to record the 8 hours as PTO. So given that I had just worked 300 hours in 3 weeks, but they wouldn't bend on 8? Yeah...I quit. And I'm glad I replaced the sump pump. It rained for 3 weeks straight after I gave notice. Oh yeah. The deadline "we couldn't miss"? It got pushed 3 weeks. The writing was on the wall for what they expected. But I was young and "stupid" living under the auspice of my father's work life (2 jobs his whole life - 20 years in the Army and 20 years for the State of Alabama). So I worked the hours because I wanted to be the team player. I wanted to help. In the end, I was shown that the relationship was one way. So now I'm old and more careful and less willing to put up with one-sided relationships.
- x0x0 13y ago
  wow 7 days a week and canned for a day off? That should prompt anyone with self respect or integrity to walk out the door and drop emails asking for help or pointers with the codebase.
  - justrudd 13y ago
    To be fair, I wasn't canned. I did quit. And I did give them the rest of the week (Tuesday - Friday) on a strict 8 hour workday.
    - Peaker 13y ago
      Which company was it? They sound like they deserve the bad publicity. You might save someone else from ending up there too...
      - justrudd 13y ago
        It was Splatter Consulting in RTP. They don't exist anymore. They shutdown probably 7 months after I walked. This was back in '98. The deadline "we couldn't miss" was to build a product. This product would move them from consulting to a product company. It was actually a neat product. Had to do with camera optic systems. Writing software that interacts with hardware was really cool. It still is, but I've gotten lazy and enjoy being wasteful using a whole byte for a boolean and what not... After I left, it was probably 4 months before everyone but the 2 sales guys and President were laid off. They lasted 3 more months before folding. I actually left a good job to take this one. Lured me away with money :) Like I said - young and stupid.