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An 80 hour work week implies 16 hours work during the workdays or 10 if you work weekends. If work takes 16/10 hours for your work, when do you sleep or eat or

by Ygg2 12y ago

An 80 hour work week implies 16 hours work during the workdays or 10 if you work weekends. If work takes 16/10 hours for your work, when do you sleep or eat or socialize?

logfromblammo 12y ago
Firstly, 80:00:00 / 7 = 11:25:43 ~ As for those other things you mentioned, the remaining 88 hours in the week would allocated as follows: 56 hours for sleep, 10 hours for meals, 3 hours for personal hygiene, 2 hours for exercise, 16 hours for a personal side project, and 1 hour to socialize. ~ ~ You'll have plenty of time for friends and relationships when you're dead. If you really cared about the company, you would abandon your personal side project and work 96 hour weeks. If you spent less time eating, you could also spend less time exercising. And some of your co-workers do get a bit ripe at times, so you're probably over-allocating time to hygiene. It takes me 3 minutes to shower, head to toe. That's how you get ahead in this business: effective time management. Also, I survive on a nutrient slurry that allows me to consume an entire day's worth of meals in only 30 seconds. And since I don't have time to actually buy anything, almost all my earnings go straight to savings! ~ The real answer is that you either sacrifice some sleep or you don't have any leisure time. That previous schedule breakdown intentionally ignores the time cost of transportation between activities, and little things like bathroom breaks. Calculating from my own life, if I worked 80 hours per week, I would have approximately 4 hours of disposable leisure time left. That would only be possible if 95% of my weekly fun requirement was met by work. The likelihood of that happening in any workplace that expected 80 hour weeks is abysmally low.
- realusername 12y ago
  If you are just 30min away from work, you can already remove 5 hours per week assuming you work from Monday to Friday. And that's an absolute minimum, you just cannot live normally and work 80 hours a week.
  - logfromblammo 12y ago
    The schedule assumes that the employee sleeps at his or her desk.
- Ygg2 12y ago
  > The real answer is that you either sacrifice some sleep or you don't have any leisure time. You lose sleep, you get sleep debt. Which is bad and shouldn't be tried. So the answer is no leisure time... Which is bad but not at that. > Also, I survive on a nutrient slurry that allows me to consume an entire day's worth of meals in only 30 seconds. And since I don't have time to actually buy anything, almost all my earnings go straight to savings!~ ~ And with oral, anal and urinal catheter you don't even have to ever go to the bathroom. Heck cut of your legs as they are useless and constant source of problems and inefficiencies. Just keep your upper torso for maximum efficient work. You don't even need to lose 30 seconds on making those meals, let your company provide the Oral Sludge receptacle™. Upon your termination, the health inspected Murder Rod™ will pierce your head and you'll be recycled into nutrients. Yum. ~
mistermann 12y ago
I'm not suggesting it's a good idea, I'm just mildly questioning this recurring "truth" that you can't be productive working <x> hours per week. It's very commonly repeated and seemingly accepted as an indisputable fact here on HN, but then we also read stories from people (often who have families and often kids) who built their startup working evenings & weekends while holding down a full time job. Both of these cannot be true.

by Ygg2 12y ago

An 80 hour work week implies 16 hours work during the workdays or 10 if you work weekends. If work takes 16/10 hours for your work, when do you sleep or eat or socialize?

logfromblammo 12y ago

Firstly, 80:00:00 / 7 = 11:25:43 ~ As for those other things you mentioned, the remaining 88 hours in the week would allocated as follows: 56 hours for sleep, 10 hours for meals, 3 hours for personal hygiene, 2 hours for exercise, 16 hours for a personal side project, and 1 hour to socialize. ~ ~ You'll have plenty of time for friends and relationships when you're dead. If you really cared about the company, you would abandon your personal side project and work 96 hour weeks. If you spent less time eating, you could also spend less time exercising. And some of your co-workers do get a bit ripe at times, so you're probably over-allocating time to hygiene. It takes me 3 minutes to shower, head to toe. That's how you get ahead in this business: effective time management. Also, I survive on a nutrient slurry that allows me to consume an entire day's worth of meals in only 30 seconds. And since I don't have time to actually buy anything, almost all my earnings go straight to savings! ~ The real answer is that you either sacrifice some sleep or you don't have any leisure time. That previous schedule breakdown intentionally ignores the time cost of transportation between activities, and little things like bathroom breaks. Calculating from my own life, if I worked 80 hours per week, I would have approximately 4 hours of disposable leisure time left. That would only be possible if 95% of my weekly fun requirement was met by work. The likelihood of that happening in any workplace that expected 80 hour weeks is abysmally low.

realusername 12y ago
If you are just 30min away from work, you can already remove 5 hours per week assuming you work from Monday to Friday. And that's an absolute minimum, you just cannot live normally and work 80 hours a week.
- logfromblammo 12y ago
  The schedule assumes that the employee sleeps at his or her desk.
Ygg2 12y ago
> The real answer is that you either sacrifice some sleep or you don't have any leisure time. You lose sleep, you get sleep debt. Which is bad and shouldn't be tried. So the answer is no leisure time... Which is bad but not at that. > Also, I survive on a nutrient slurry that allows me to consume an entire day's worth of meals in only 30 seconds. And since I don't have time to actually buy anything, almost all my earnings go straight to savings!~ ~ And with oral, anal and urinal catheter you don't even have to ever go to the bathroom. Heck cut of your legs as they are useless and constant source of problems and inefficiencies. Just keep your upper torso for maximum efficient work. You don't even need to lose 30 seconds on making those meals, let your company provide the Oral Sludge receptacle™. Upon your termination, the health inspected Murder Rod™ will pierce your head and you'll be recycled into nutrients. Yum. ~

mistermann 12y ago

I'm not suggesting it's a good idea, I'm just mildly questioning this recurring "truth" that you can't be productive working <x> hours per week. It's very commonly repeated and seemingly accepted as an indisputable fact here on HN, but then we also read stories from people (often who have families and often kids) who built their startup working evenings & weekends while holding down a full time job. Both of these cannot be true.