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Starting a new job tomorrow, I’m hyped by the in house canteen, gimme cheap balanced healthy food and a break thanks
Every moment I have one on one time with a junior coworker and we talk about workload, I remind them that it’s a multibillion dollar corporation and it is not your friend.
Some of them get it.
I have a junior that keeps mentioning burn out, and I largely tell them the same thing. Working hard a couple times a year to keep a project on time may be worth it to make a good impression on my boss and make it easier for me to promote you (2-3 things for me to mention is plenty), but you don’t want anyone to expect you to continue this long term. Chill 90% of the time and push occasionally to make a good impression, anything more is wasted effort.
In 10 years, the only ones who will remember that you worked late and on weekends will be your family.
Your work won’t remember and won’t care.
Okay, but how am I supposed to afford the food for my kids without the overtime?
Well, that’s your fault for being poor.
Start stealing from people below you and stop paying some percentage of your tax as close to 100% as is financially sustainable.
I do something that probably appears this way, i spend the first few months working extra hard to find ways to be maximally lazy going forward. I highly recommend it.
I’m a software engineer and involved in hiring, and I love hiring lazy devs, they’ll automate the boring parts away leaving just the interesting stuff.
I am a lazy DevOps developer, I spend half my time developing software with another team because I got everything to run so smoothly, I only had a small amount of maintenance tasks left to do. I am going for three 9’s for the one pipeline this year. It could have been that or better already but nobody works on weekends, so if it goes down nobody will take care of it until Monday morning.
Nice! Lazy devops are best devops.
Seem very competent, work hard, understand all the processes and help review or improve products…
That way no one comes back to my office to check on me and notice I’m playing BG3 at the desk instead of working.
Meanwhile I’m here skipping lunch because I have no sense of time when I’m solving an interesting problem.
Sometimes I’ll do that until 4 in the morning. Then I have to sleep and miss morning meetings.
Are you me?
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Same. I legitimately like my job and sometimes skip because I’m doing something interesting. In general, the harder the problem, the more fun I’m having.
That said, I’m a manager and I absolutely tell my people to take breaks.
This isn’t funny; it’s depressing.
Skipping those things is illegal. The company could get fined. Maybe if they knew that, they wouldn’t skip them.
Might be different in other countries but I think at least in the EU and likely the UK you are correct so long as it isn’t freelance work.
It’s VERY true here in the USA iv had to sue every employer iv had since iv started working over this sort of shit.
It’s so unbelievably common for employers here to try to scam you out of break or lunch.
Hell my current job is currently fucking not giving me a lunch and having to pay me a penalty for it daily.
At least in my area, it’s illegal for companies to not accommodate breaks, but if someone wants to work on their break, that’s on them. Some of the more dangerous jobs have more strict rules, but your typical office job certainly doesn’t.
“Your hard work will be rewarded with more hard work.”
Don’t work hard, your employer would only waste it on something stupid like a new yacht.
Where I work they’d fuss at you for skipping lunch
Same but sometimes I really don’t want to interact with coworkers.
I say hey to mine, but that’s about it.
I skip lunch to leave earlier
Everything I want to spend my time doing is at home. If I’m not at home, I’m getting paid
How do you not feel so hungry in the afternoon that you’re unable to work effectively?
Most places I’ve worked at have allowed a 10-minute paid break, so I just pack something that I can eat quickly
I’m also fine with just not eating for 8 hours. Even on non-work days I tend to have a pretty light lunch
I’m the same way. Sometimes I’ll even skip breakfast and lunch and I’ll only have problems if I go more than 12 hours or so.
That said, I’m paid salary and we don’t track hours, so I only work through lunch if I’m behind on something. I can usually get my work done in 30-35 hours/week, so most days are pretty chill and I’ll take breaks with my coworkers.
In that position, I’d definitely take lunch
Unfortunately where I am employers usually only make people salaried if they’re planning on requiring more than 40 hours a week from them
That’s often true in my area, and there are weeks when I put in >40 hours. But since we’re able to provide our own estimates and upper management is generally happy with our delivery (our dept tends to over-deliver on our yearly goals), we can generally keep things manageable.
But yeah, I do take lunch 99% of the time when I’m in the office, but more like 40% of the time when I WFH. Nobody seems to care when people leave early as long as the work gets done.
I think my company is a bit unique here, and it’s why I stay. I could probably get a bit better pay elsewhere, but the work life balance makes up for it.
Holy throwback profile pic.
You just unlocked a part of my brain I forgot was there.
lo bob
Tell them immediately. Speak about wages. Talk about work life balance.
After they don’t get a raise a few times, they usually figure it out by themselves.
The trick is not rewarding people.
Man I am pretty chill (nowadays in my old age), but if I saw my team skipping lunch I’d tell them to stop working and start eating.
There are parts of our jobs that are unavoidable on a few nights or weekends, but I make sure we spread that around fairly, and I take more of them than my team.
Not surprisingly, my team is consistently the happiest so of course other managers complain to me that I’m making them look bad. When our CEO says every manger can set their own work polices. Just change yours!
This is also the look supervisor gives me for spending 30 minutes on lunch while an employee skips it to work.
