• FelixCress@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    Would you like to work nearly double the standard 40-hour week?

    Maybe in the USA. It is 37.5h where I am.

    known as “996,” or 9 am to 9 pm, six days a week. In other words, it’s a 72-hour work week.

    Fuck off.

  • ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works
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    24 days ago

    Embracing? This is been the reality for many startups for a long time. Same with many game devs and animation studios too. Many technical jobs grind their staff despite being the most profitable industries. It is almost like the more money you make, the more you abuse your staff.

  • horse@feddit.org
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    23 days ago

    Kobe Bryant dedicated all his waking hours to basketball, and I don’t think there’s a lot of people saying that Kobe Bryant shouldn’t have worked as hard as he did.

    Yeah, but he was working to achieve something for himself and not to make some parasite richer.

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    The Americans and their piss poor labor laws, They like working beyond the point of diminishing return.

  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    24 days ago

    I thought “996” meant 9 hours on Monday, 9 hours on Tuesday, 6 hours on Wednesday, then a 4-day weekend.

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      24 days ago

      It honestly blows my mind how these “leaders” get paid billions of dollars to run their companies into the ground because they have no fucking clue how real humans operate.

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    24 days ago

    People are stupid, they have whole nature around them, but they are killing it to create computers and escape the planet.
    That’s sad.

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      24 days ago

      What’s really sad about it is that most of the shit they believe is complete sci-fi bullshit and they won’t build a super-intelligence nor escape the planet no matter how much of their finite time they pump into these futile efforts.