I know the title is little disturbing and might be considered against company policies in many companies however, it's not targeted to any company.
I've been into two companies now and I've a long list of friends who just like me work in different companies. Some are big companies like @#$%^& and some are start-ups like $%&^&(* ( I don't want to name any company here). We all have our jobs which help in paying the bills and probably getting settled and living a non-risky normal life.
I love working. I seriously do. But, not in a way some companies way. I seriously do not work for 8 hours. And I'm sure majority of us don't. I'm not saying that we can't but again we can't on a daily basis. However, companies don't seem to get that. They enforce 8-9 hour reporting policies, stupid automated systems to send mail to your manager if you worked (actually, were in office) for less hours. Work hours is one of the many stupid ideas Indian IT industry has. Somehow, it got passed on to other industries.
There was a post recently in Al-Jazeera about workers who were kept locked in chains in Bangladesh and made to work for 16+ hours a day. The funny thing is, this you call a torture in Bangladesh or India, but if you do such thing in Indian IT company, it's called "hard work" or "delivery time" but never torture. For some, it gets paid off, but a little extra time in office daily never gets paid off. By the way, in Japan such thing is normal :P
I'm not suggesting that you should not work for 8 hours a day or be disloyal to your company. I'm suggesting that companies should make policies more relaxed so that employees have one less thing to worry about. After all, it's the employees who make companies.
p.s. dedicated to all over-committed employees :P
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Hello Dude,
I 100% agree with you. I have been facing the same problem of extended working hours ... around 12-13 hours a day. Sorry to the way I think and my nature, One fine day, I thought of teaching a good lesson to the Mgmt.
I knowingly made a mistake in Prod env, which affected Prod, Staging and test env :D :D and at the same time all the env. were completely unavailable for around 10 min.
The client has asked my firm for around 30000 Euro (In INR around 18 Lacs) as a penalty.
When asked, I gave them the reason that:
1) Sorry, I made a mistake by mistake :P
2) Continuous long working hours affected me a lot
3) I am not at all able to manage my personal and official life
As a result of which, current situation is:
1) I am not allowed to work on Prod and also not allowed to do any much responsible task
2) Get a lot of time in office to work on the things which I like (of course Linux security tricks)
3) I am in office for no more than 9 hrs including my break hours.
I am very happy now a days, coz I taught a good lesson to the mgmt. I know that even if I am not allowed to work on Production, Amit has sufficient knowledge and ability to handle production setup even if asked to work at 12 midnight.
So, I fully agree with you and wanna convey that:
"Agar seedhi ungli se ghee naa nikle, to ungli tedhi mat karo, Ghee ki shishi hi tod do.... so that not only our problem get solved but also our colleagues get some sort of rest. :D:D "
- Amit N. Sharma (Mob: 9923 610 396)
i will remember your suggestion to employers. :D
haha.. why now? #&^*&$&^ has also similar policies as (&#&#*(*$&? I must say, &@(&$( is much better in this respect :D I am having fun doing my work.
My personal feeling is Jeo aur Jeene Do. Becuase we are no way above Management. Agar ungli tedi karni jao to Ungli tut bhi sakti hai aur Ghee bhi nahi niklega.... :)
I m also agree with amit its really true...
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