lol overtime
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I'm highly sceptical that anyone can be continuously be productive for 80-90 hours a week. A lot of law firms in London are like this. I know from people who work at them that it leads to clients paying £2,000 an hour for a group of sleep-deprived junior lawyers to argue about where the commas should go in a report at 4 in the morning.
it's so sad but it's so true... problem is when you have deadlines to meet, you can't just walk away and say 'hey screw you, i'm going home now, byebye'... you're forced to work overtime... if i could figure out a way to not work overtime, i don't think i would have left my day job
This is why i never want to return to being a grunt programmer.
Regardless of how smart you are...
how much education you have...
how dumb management is....
....at the end of the day you're a 'technical worker' you have a skill and you're being used for that skill.
You're basically the new assembly line factory worker.
Regardless of how smart you are...
how much education you have...
how dumb management is....
....at the end of the day you're a 'technical worker' you have a skill and you're being used for that skill.
You're basically the new assembly line factory worker.
whiny liberal said:
Sounds like a couple thousand families ate that month. viva la free markets
amateursurgeon & shadowcsater ++
that shit made my morning.
Exactly.
An old Asian woman I know had to sell her blood as a child and teen just to buy a few nibbles of food each day. She did so for years, and somehow managed to survive. Conditions in her country are much better today, a fact that has not escaped her.
Most of those working in the Apple plants do so voluntarily. If other options were available to them, they would surely pursue them. The workers could always go back to the garment factories, where conditions are worse:
Apple iPad plant conditions better than the norm: agency | Reuters
Apple's Factories in China: The Condtions Better Than Most in China | HULIQ
As it is, a lot of Chinese travel to the cities from their farms, leaving their families behind for weeks, even months. What might compel someone to do so if not the opportunity to make their lives - as well as those of their families - better?
Folks who cry foul about the "injustices" perpetuated by greedy employers against voluntary workers - here and abroad - make me doubt their ability to reason.
Bingo. The opening of a somewhat free market in China has presented opportunity for those with the drive to take advantage of it. Many Chinese are now wealthy because of this. Not everyone has that drive, some prefer to have a job or lack the motivation to figure out a better way. In their situation, Apple and other companies are their lifeblood. Trying to force more regulations on these companies means people go hungry because inevitably less people will have jobs.
If only people would stop for a moment and look at the big picture the factory worker's life wouldn't look so grim.
LOL, anyone else find this paragraph pretty funny? It's as if the author is implying the boss at Foxxconn got a call at 2am from Steve Jobs saying the displays need to be changed, so come 3am the boss woke up thousands of people, and told them to get cracking.
LOL... that was actually my humor for the day.
