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originally posted by: crayzeed
There is only one rule you should live by and that's "WORK TO LIVE NOT LIVE TO WORK". When you've worked that out let me know.
Personally, I have never worked more than 40 hours per week, usually 30-35,
originally posted by: JinMI
Personally, I have never worked more than 40 hours per week, usually 30-35,
I used to have a part time job too!
I'm of the opinion that if a company can support a large percentage of their workforce to have or demand overtime then they are mismanaging along side of not paying a proper wage.
Overtime should hurt to the point that it is an encumbrance on the bottom line and in turn is not the norm. I'm also of the opinion that I like to make extra money. Can't always have it both ways I suppose.
originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: olaru12
"it's not what you know but WHO you know.
I remember that line being a tad different...and since you happen to be in 'the biz'........
I kid, i kid!
originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: seeker1963
Some are also still hooked on the demon that they were feeding (drugs, alcohol, cars/toys or worse the neverending debt cycle) as well.
Not all who work hard are smart....ask me how I know!
originally posted by: CabinI have always been supportive of good work-life balance. Even the fact, that company needs somebody to work overtime, means mismanagement, setting unlikely deadlines etc. For me, work-life is extremely important. Personally, I have never worked more than 40 hours per week, usually 30-35, although currently I am having issues with my girlfriend. This whole summer, she has been working more than 60 hours per week and that is unacceptable for me. I have had to wait hours behind her office, because she told she would finish earlier. And I am getting tired of it... No company/job is worth sacrificing personal relationships, friends, family. Now she decided to even work on Saturday and I am waiting for her, so had some time to write this post. I have even asked her to quit, as my salary would easily cover both of our needs, although she wants "independence".
Overtime is something I personally am highly against. It is something that too often gives unfair advantage to people, who have "no lives". There is a huge difference, when a person has family, social life vs single somebody whose whole life goes around their work. In the end, the first person would have to sacrifice their personal life or the second person gets advantage. In the end, such choices lead to immense amount of divorces, loss of friendships and all this, because of a freakin job. No job is worth such sacrifice.
Another problem comes with the fact, that when one person is willing to work overtime and other is not, then the company pressurises the second to either work overtime or they will just find somebody who will. And there is always somebody desperate enough to take the job. Using people´s desperate situations, need for money to, to pressurise them sacrificing their health,personal relationships, family,is not right thing to do.
In the end, when one works overtime, this leads to loss of productivity due to tiredness. Long-term different health issues might come up, which might become extremely expensive etc etc. It becomes negative for the economy as a whole.
If a company needs its employees work overtime, this means the deadline have been set too tight, that is managements problem not employees. If a contract says its 40, then its 40. I remember, couple of years ago, France enacted a ban on overtime in certain sectors. I wish my country would do the same. There is work and there is personal life.
Sorry for the mistakes, waiting at the taxi for my girlfriend right now and had some time to kill. If that behaviour continues in her, I think seriously calling it quits with her soon.
Now, the catch to not getting divorced with this in mind -- just MY opinion here, not as a set-in-stone rule -- is not having a partner who works if you don't desperately need the extra income. Yes, I went there. Now watch people get pissy about it. I've seen far more friends in dual-job marriages, who don't need the second paycheck by any means, end their marriages in divorce versus when one of the two is a stay-at-home. It doesn't matter which one stays home, simply that domestic rock spouse holding down the fort & tending the home front in your absence matters. When two people are dividing their time between work and home, you're both going to be equally stressed, and at that point, what are you anymore? Room mates with benefits?