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Yeah, the only people in are sociopaths. At least this will make it more difficult for them to go on dates, so hopefully none of them have kids.

Silicon Valley is getting more Gilded Age by the day. When they start hiring cops to kill the dissidents, we'll know they've arrived.

Not sure it’s the same people

Karoshi

Give away your life so you can make an app for a shitty marketing scam orange juice. True innovation!

That gives the attorney 2,201 billable hours. The attorney will have worked 3,058 hours.

where's that lady with the sleeping bag when you need her

So when does AI start making everyone’s life easier? Before or after or lives and health are completely spent?

Hell no.

Bro, AI was supposed to reduce the time spent working, not increase it! WTF is wrong with these people?

Exploitation. The capitalist way.

I'm so glad I've retired.

Everybody!!!! bsky.app/profile/peip...

One more step on the glorious road of the great shitification of everything. A wonderful way to push away actual talents and replace them with rabid simulant fueled mediocrity.

Agree 100%

Exactly. Nice to encounter someone else who understands the science.

I’ve found that my bosses are getting around 40 hours of productivity out of me no matter how many hours I work. That’s not being rebellious or anything, it’s just that if I’m working long hours, the productivity drops off a cliff. Squirrel brain starts becoming a thing

When I work too much I get really rigid and unproductive in my thinking and tend to just give up rather than figuring out ways of solving new problems. We have limits!

Das ist ein klassischer Teufelskreis - wir arbeiten so viel, dass wir uns selbst ersetzen können, aber dann werden wir selbst ersetzt, bevor wir's schaffen. Ist das der Preis für die Effizienz?

This isn't employment, it's serfdom.

It was very funny at business school the kids who wanted to work at startups like “what are you bringing to thr party? You can’t code you got a b- in accounting you’re boring in general”. I guess they can bring the drugs??

and then once you've worked hard enough to replace yourself, you're replaced

Unfortunately, it was only ever a matter of time. Expect 996 to start filtering down to the rest of U.S. white-collar employment sooner rather than later…

It's as though the end game for oligarchs is entirely worker subjugation. Leading to that limitless minority control they desire. bsky.app/profile/wire...

Hahaha! Wont work.

Years ago I had a job interview with Microsoft at their Redmond campus. This was for a software tester position. The interviewer showed me around and I noticed several cots setup in offices of their gaming division. The interviewee told me this was common for their team to work very long hours.

If you are young it's possible to do for a few years. The important thing is to calculate if it puts you in a higher tax bracket. Why work more for less?

Fuck that, and fuck them!

people keep invoking steve jobs to motivate rank and file workers to work long hours but only 1 guy at apple ever got to be steve jobs

Just because your body is at work it doesn't mean your attention, effort, or productivity is always functioning. People's brains and bodies are not designed to be constantly on. They need breaks and rest. We're not machines.

Thanks for this information. Agree, unions are key to a strong middle class and contribute greatly to a balanced work/life relationship.

That's a no. Luckily in Australia we have labour laws that tend to get stretched but not that badly.

It was absolute garbage. Of course, they blamed everyone but themselves for it. I worked with some incredible people, all but one of the original staff I hired on with had either left or been fired at my time of quitting. And I'm pretty sure there was a coldplay concert situation going on there too.

Oh god

If you have someone working 996 and you don't have a few 40hr/week people cleaning up after them, you end up with garbage tech.

Imagine how many guillotines you can make in 72 hours.

Instead of office cubicles, how about a “living” cubicle? Think of it as a prison cell at the office.

Just like computers, and then later the Internet, were going to give us all 20-hour work weeks?

By bankrupting all these idiotic companies that waste billions of dollars on useless AI.

This is a great way to get their employees on SSDI eventually.

Hahaha yeah. But when the AI bubble bursts it's gonna completely 1929 the entire market, because the rich are gonna want to offset their losses somehow, and that means what's left of the middle class will take it right in the shorts.

Weren’t the “perks” always there to compensate for their horrific work schedules? Great dining, on site health clubs, table tennis! Why go home?

It is an utterly stupid notion.

"We should be on top of innovation by having the same work environment as a Chinese sweatshop" is an elliptical Galaxy brained take- That is, it's the largest, smoothest brained take you can possibly have.

lol, that’s over 14 hours a day on a 5 day work week basis, and over 10 hours a day on a 7 days-a-week basis

Me when something very American happens "what is this China??"

lol

The problem isn't that braindead rich people demand that, but that millions of people DON'T think it's outrageous to even suggest it, and a good portion of them would be happy to participate. Which will cause it to become more and more "normal" and expected of everyone of us.

The appropriate response to that is to ask for equity commensurate with the commitment.

Rather than hire two people they want one person to do the work of two for one paycheck. Screw them.

I used to work very long days. It's a younger person's life. My body suffered and can't do it anymore. There were 30 hour shifts to fix urgent issues

Managing partners at Sequoia have been trying to convince founders to do that for at least a decade. It's a great deal for the VC

The standard working week in the UK is 37.5 hours, not 40. No way at all would I work those obscene crazy hours, but I'm real glad I'm soon to be retired.

Fuck this. I'd rather doordash

I thought AI was supposed to make life easier for stupid people

Those are also law firm hours FWIW

Are they being paid overtime?

Software engineers are well paid relative to everybody else, but if the richest people in the world got their money mostly by charging more money for software than they pay those who write it, software engineers may still be an underpaid (or abused, as here) profession

Funny way to use up your life.

and yet, wired is out there doing the good work. huh.

Whispers: "Blink twice if you're working 72 hours a week."

So if I’m doing 996, 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week, do we also get the 400x pay increase and equity that CEOs get? 💰💸💵📈

That's China all right.

I don’t work for a startup, but if I did and that was part of the job description (or if it was made known during the interview process), my answer would be a hard “Aw HELL No.” Wouldn’t even apply, or just laugh and walk out.

Lol

Only if I can "Severance" it.

almost nobody in China is on a 996 schedule. Also, adopting a schedule like that is a 50% pay cut

And now we see why the techbro scumbags are all in on the H1B visa. A nice handy supply of indentured servants. I'm really looking forward to the inevitable tech bubble popping.

Presenteeism has always been one of the most mindless aspects of US business culture. Most Yanks associate "more" with "better". Moronic.

Why not just hire more people? Silly thought ..

anyone who uses gen AI needs to face the death penalty for doing so

No life. Slave labor.

Yep

Our $gazillionaire oligarchs have discarded the mask.

This sounds like they're in some kind of panic.

📌

You need a union.

“…wildly non-compliant with labor laws.”

This is why we need to overthrow the tech bros. I’ve done 72 hour weeks for short term needs but would never sign up for it as a culture.

This sounds like the sort of projects CS undergrads do in their first web development class these days, genuinely.

The secret here is to start obtusely high so that you end up where at the price you want to charge. It’s not that hard

I would love to be a plumber with absolutely zero communications skills. Sounds like the right field for someone who simply cannot speak to anyone about the plumbing business.

If there’s one thing contractors don’t need any help with it’s ripping people off.

A Labor Union training bot would actually come in REALLY handy to use as a tool!

Excited to not do that!

The beatings will continue until the AI improves/approves.

Fuuuuck that.

Easy choice. Fuck ‘em.

I love this for them

Huh, I thought they didn't need workers anymore.

Paging Luigi

WORK HARDER, SERFS, FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF YOUR MASTERS The whole premise of "time spent = productivity" is so insanely performative as to be immediately discounted. These are the same people telling us that AI will make us more productive, with the subtext, "so I can profit more from your labor"

"once known for cushy perks" always known for bosses promising much in exchange for much and yet delivering the log of 1

Bartleby these motherfuckers into the stone age

I cut down from 40 to 32 at the end of my employment years and it was still too little too late. I work about 10 hours a week for myself now and have a much healthier balance with a bout double the hourly pay I was making while employed by someone else. Turns out my skills are valuable to patients

AI offices to turn into shanty towns. Live and breathe the AI lifestyle. Just don’t forget your poop bucket.

why i walked away 6 figures in 1995.