From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" Subject: Re: Your boss sucks, mine is better (was: Your english sucks, mine is better. Date: 1997/12/01 Message-ID: <34835BC4.1B96@gsg.eds.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 294407385 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <347DEBB2.5B6A@mWilden.com> <65mrcg$fmu$1@NNTP.MsState.Edu> <347F25CE.2ABC@mWilden.com> <65nbt8$jhn$1@darla.visi.com> Reply-To: nospam@gsg.eds.com Organization: EDS MS Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-12-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Peter Seebach wrote: > > 80 hour work weeks are not especially productive; indeed, people who work > too many hours are less productive than people who work closer to 40. Even 60 hour weeks leave to burnout if sustained. > I doubt most people can sustain productive brain-work for very long, > or do it most of the time without needing breaks. Long ones. :) > > I knew a manager who thought the company was best served by people working > six days a week, 8-10 hours a day, or more, and was, himself, in at least > 60 hours a week. He sucked. His employees struggled, they botched, they > didn't think clearly. Weeks were wasted. Well, the worst wrecks I've seen were when management isn't forcing you to work too many hours, but you want the project to succeed so badly that it warps your judgement of what your own limits are. It's sobering to find out that hard way that you aren't Superman :-( -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Senior Software SE The values in from and reply-to are for the benefit of spammers: reply to domain eds.com, user msustys1.smetz or to domain gsg.eds.com, user smetz. Do not reply to spamtrap@library.lspace.org