Is your manager incompetent?
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If your manager or senior is making you work long hours and weekends, your department or division or business is broken. With the unpaid extra time employees are financing someone else’s business with your time.
Jason Fried and DHH are founders of Basecamp, one of the world’s most successful project management tools. They do not make their teams and employees work for more than 40 hours in a week. They ship a new feature every 6 weeks. They only work for four days a week during the summers.
Jason Fried Tweeted: If your company requires you to work nights and weekends, your company is broken. This is a managerial problem, not your problem. This is a process problem, not a personal problem. This is an ownership problem, not an individual problem.
DHH Tweeted: Oh for fucks sake. Don’t sacrifice your 20s — or any other decade of life! — on the erroneous belief that unless you work round the clock, you’re not going to be “successful”. The world is full of people who were all work and now are all regret.
Some of the tips from their book- “It doesn’t have to be crazy at work’ are:
Meetings waste time.
Leave work at a reasonable hour.
Real-time conversations distract us (hint: they feed your ego).
Short timelines keep team members motivated, engaged, and focused
Ditching technologies like the “shared calendar” which could be doing your business more harm than good.
Push back against an over-demanding boss who is trying to usurp your time outside of work.
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