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- cannonball19780
Not to be harsh, but it's your fault. Learn to set some professional boundaries.
- ArmandoEstrada0
I hope you're getting overtime pay. 1.5x for 8-10 hours, 2x for 10+. I know in Cali, if you're not in a supervisory position (exempt employee), you are entitled to overtime. Also 40+ hours a week = overtime. My wife was working 40+ for over 2.5 years for a company and she got fed up, sued for OT pay and got her $$$. Check laws in your state...
- did she get fired after the settlement?
rodzilla - and did she get a severence package if she did get fired?CyBrainX
- She quit first and thought about it and was like "fuck, thats my hard earned $."ArmandoEstrada
- Most people are scared to complain or do anything out of fear of getting fired.ArmandoEstrada
- did she get fired after the settlement?
- twokids0
Go work at a giant corporation as a designer. Leave the small studio thing behind. You will never go back.
- fooler0
this is the ONE instance where having a kid comes as an advantage.
- CyBrainX0
Just last night I was called to come back to work for some last minute nonsense. Keep in mind they fired our project manager who was good at her job. I got two Facebook posts from my CD to come in on non-work related threads. Yes, I said Facebook. (This amused my friends to no end.) I turned off my phone and ignored the entire shitbomb. When I checked my email at 11pm, the list of revisions looked like it was going to take an hour.
Morale of the story is, draw a line, make up an excuse, do whatever you need to do so you aren't taken advantage of by assholes who dug themselves into their own hole.
- Moral of the story, not Morale, but that makes sense too.CyBrainX
- 74LEO0
So do you feel those 24 hours were not productive?
were you kept there against your own free will?
Did you stay all those hours for a positive experience?It would be good to know why you work long hours?
Are you afraid of getting fired?
- Miesfan0
- In the West we use robots for that.i_monk
- OSHA would not approveWrappedInBooks
- e-pill0
i feel your pain.. i work 15-18 hour days 6 days a week in a china factory where its super hot and no air circulation.. but at least i have QBN.. cheer up and go grab a drink or something.
- prophetone0
take a day off, rest, get an avocado facial, solved.
- exador10
years ago, when i worked in advertising, stuff like this generally happened at least every other month....
thankfully we had a decent couch at the office to sleep on...
but generally it was: work all night, maybe around 5 or 6am grab 2 hours of sleep on the couch...then by the time 9am rolled around, back to work...just part of the deal of working in that particular office....
it sucked. but that's life.
not the kind of thing i'd do now, but in my early 20's it seemed like it was just the way work went sometimes....i now, of course, realize it's more to do with the fact that people in their early 20's can be manipulated into doing all sorts of stupid shit like that....try asking a 40 year old with a family at home to stay all night at the office....prooooobably not going to happen....
- vaxorcist0
One other thing.. I have what I call the 4am brain-mess, where I tend to do something horribly wrong that I thought was right at 4am, then figure out I messed up at about 6am... then spend the next 3 hours trying to undo it and figure out what I messed up, so I've taken to simply stopping at 3:30 am no matter what, sleeping at least 2 hours and starting again if this happens...
- vaxorcist0
...expectations management anyone?
..or was it a case where something had an unseen complication and the deadline stayed...
...or was there some needed stuff that showed up at the last minute in not quite the right format and you had to do a marathon of brainless tweeking to make the deadline?
Anyway, I had a situation once where the website announcement had been printed on all sorts of posters everywhere, advertised, etc and the clients IT department database integration stuff was insanely slow and in a wrong format, so we had consecutive allnighters trying to fix this, when it could have been handled by suit to suit negotiations earlier, but that's another story...
- CALLES0
keep sucking that corporate cock?
- Ranger0
- that gif never fails to make me laugh..but what movie is it from?exador1
- Looks like Chow Yun Fat, an outtake from "The Killer"?elahon
- Ahhh, found it, from "A Better Tomorrow". Kind of ironic, QBN's tagline and all. http://www.youtube.c…elahon
- ohhhhhsnap0
They say that if you've been up for anything past 34 hours, your brain changes. Creates damage even and you won't be the same.
Take care of your mind/body man. No work is worth "pain and suffering." Effort yes but pain... not so much.
- d_rek0
Doesn't sound like it's a regular issue so maybe just suck this one up and take a personal day or two off.
If it was a regularity it would be signs of a much bigger problems, ie: piss-poor process, project, account, client management, etc.
Although, whenever faced with what looks like it could be an all nighter i often remind myself and my peers of this: Is your client losing sleep over this project too? Probably not. So go get some fucking sleep.
- oey0
Jesus Fuck is different from Fuck Jesus...