The Voice of Reason Cries Out In The Wilderness

[JackLuis]

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Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity

If you’re lucky enough to have a job right now, you’re probably doing everything possible to hold onto it. If the boss asks you to work 50 hours, you work 55. If she asks for 60, you give up weeknights and Saturdays, and work 65.

Odds are that you’ve been doing this for months, if not years, probably at the expense of your family life, your exercise routine, your diet, your stress levels, and your sanity. You’re burned out, tired, achy, and utterly forgotten by your spouse, kids and dog. But you push on anyway, because everybody knows that working crazy hours is what it takes to prove that you’re “passionate” and “productive” and “a team player” — the kind of person who might just have a chance to survive the next round of layoffs.

Does it sound like 2012 to you?

 

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I think there is some good rationale for overtime in some cases. If you hit a busy spot why hire and train new people you will probably have to lay off if you can get your regulars to work longer hours?

The problem is if it becomes chronic. Personally if I had to work say 60 hr. weeks on and on I would quit. Slavery for no reward is just stupid.