Infosys co-founder calls for youth to work 70-hour weeks
www.theregister.com
Do it for India, says Narayana Murthy, seemingly unaware that China, Japan, and South Korea all have overworking problems
  • fckreddit@lemmy.ml
    701·
    8 months ago

    His entire fortune is built on the backs of overworked people. No wonder he is trying to manipulate people into working unreasonable amount of hours.

    • ArbiterXero@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      8 months ago

      He’s not crazy.

      He directly benefits from the 70 hours of his workers. He’s manipulative, not crazy.

      • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
        14·
        8 months ago

        Three years ago he called for young people to work 60 hours a week. He’s just stepping up his entitled requirements now.

    • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      8 months ago

      A couple of years ago I worked roughly 65 hours a week for like two months because we were understaffed. I told my boss he had to find someone new as soon as possible. He said he wasn’t even looking. „Everything is fine! You just have to change your methods and work smarter!“

      I immediately quit, drove to my doc, told him the story and sat at home for the rest of the period of notice.

      Seriously, fuck that guy.

      • MelodiousFunk@kbin.social
        13·
        8 months ago

        Similar story here, except instead of no help, I got a green nepo hire with a doctored resume that I was expected to babysit. I gave it a couple of months to bake, just to make sure I wasn’t overreacting. Nope, he was useless. I walked.

    • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
      11·
      8 months ago

      A week after I was hired by my company, I was working 70 hour weeks for 6 weeks on an 8 day rotation. After that, it was 60 hour weeks for a month. Needless to say, I had a mental health crisis.

  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    201·
    8 months ago

    My first real job was working 12h shifts at a global company’s internal IT helpdesk.

    The shifts were alternating day/night periods on an irregular schedule.

    I have worked 60 hour weeks, 5 days in a row, and that shit can fuck right off, I can’t even imagine working 70 hour weeks.

    I suspect this guy either has worked like crazy to build his company up from the ground and believe that his employees should feel the same drive as he did as the owner, or that he has never worked close to that much in a week, and is just looking at a pie chart of the available hours in the day.

    I am glad for the job I had back then, even if the hours sucked, I learned a lot, and it made me apriciate the free time I got when I started working normal hours, but I would not wish those hours on anyone, they killed my social life, and even seven years later I have not recovered it.

  • HowMany@lemmy.ml
    16·
    8 months ago

    They’re not working for the country. What nationalistic hype. They’re working for some asshole who’s making all the money off their labor. India needs even more corrections to the government than the United States.

  • Nougat@kbin.social
    14·
    8 months ago

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  • donuts@kbin.social
    12·
    8 months ago

    When your entire existence relies on exploiting the work of the people who are “under you”, of course you want them to work harder, faster and more. They’d crack out the whip if they’d get away with it.

    These rotten billionaires don’t care about our little lives or how much we enjoy or very short time on this planet, they only care about maximizing share prices and filling their pockets with bonuses that the workers are earning for them.

    • Titan@beehaw.org
      2·
      8 months ago

      They get away with it in some countries. The last Fifa World Cup was built by modern day slaves. And people still traveled there, sponsors like Coca Cola and Hyundai/Kia stood proudly behind them

  • lustyargonian@lemm.ee
    10·
    8 months ago

    Truth be told, every single person can only give so much of their brain or body to a job in long term. You may think you’re working 14 hours a day regularly, but it’s usually 2-3 hours a day of productive use of time, rest can be busy work, at least in the tech industry. I don’t mean there can never be times when you actually work for 14 hours daily, but it’ll burn you out so quickly that you’ll end up taking longer breaks, quitting or just becoming toxic in other areas of your life. Not worth it.

    It’s like induced demand. Wider roads don’t necessarily mean faster traffic. More working hours doesn’t mean better productive use of time. That’s why we see reports telling how 4 day work weeks actually improved productivity. Less time for BS.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      it’ll burn you out so quickly that you’ll end up taking longer breaks, quitting or just becoming toxic in other areas of your life. Not worth it.

      That’s OK with this guy. He’ll just take the profits from your labour and replace you with someone whom he hasn’t broken yet.