'You should be working 12 hour days': Tech CEO tells employees they aren't working enough, demands they work 8 AM-9 PM Monday-Friday

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    r/antiwork u/dankkyyy 21h • "You should be working 12 hour days"
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    My best friends mom got a new job at a tech company about 3ish months ago. She does something with coding (not exactly sure.) But yesterday she received an email from the CEO stating that all the employees are not working enough and "they should be working from 8 AM to 9 PM Monday - Friday.)
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    I thought that was insane to send to your employees. How are they suppose to do anything other than work? What about kids and idk EATING AND COMMUTING? Absolutely bonkers. Is this normal? Is this even legal?
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    pistoffcynic 18h • It's the exception, rather than the norm. Though I will say I had a clown pull this on me once... the social experiment was that he wanted 12 hours per day, so I billed him 12 hours per day as a consultant. 8 hours at regular time, 4 at time and a half, plus meals. I called me into his office saying he wasn't going to pay it. I asked him if he worked for free... he answered no. So I told him I don't work for free either. Long story short, I went to the labor board and they mad
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    El_Cartografo • 19h Reply all: "People died at the hands of business and government goons so I could have a 40-hour workweek. I will not dishonor their sacrifice." Reply 5.1k
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    Kaleria84 • 17h The bosses seem to forget that the 40 hour work week was the workers compromise to dragging crappy bosses or into the streets and killing them in front of their families for being overworked and underpaid. 695
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    NoConcern4176 • 21h They don't want you to have a life. All they care about is their profit margins and stock values. Imagine the level of burnouts doing this schedule week in week out Reply 1k
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    Turinggirl • 18h That's the point. A burnout means they can be replaced by someone cheaper. G 260
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    EnigmaEcstacy • 16h . Which is not winning strategy, it's a short term boost to the bottom line but the inexperience and resources used to bring on new blood inevitably has more costs longterm. 143
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    ewok_lover_64 • 19h They just passed a new overtime law in favor of salary workers ... Reply 147
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    dankkyyy OP. 19h for CA? I'm pretty sure she is salaried. Works in SF. 29
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    mcflame13 • 19h We really need the dumbass federal government to limit the power these companies have. The companies should not be allowed to have workers working for more than 8 hours a day without the worker's express permission of working more than 8 hours that day. So if the company wants someone to work for more than 8 hours. Someone from management should have to ask the employee if they want to work more than 8 hours. And if the company does anything to that employee if they say no. The e
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    Literal_Sarcasm82 • 14h YOUR GREAT GRANDFATHERS You "Listen Boss, me and the boys were chatting, and we decided that eight hours is an honest days work, if you don't like it, we're burning the factory down" myllut.com lol, 55 hours is nothing, I worked 75 at my last job you ← Reply 66
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    Backlotter 20h It's legal, they can fire you for not working those hours. It is illegal for firing you for attempting to start a union at your workplace. So, openly being up unions with CO workers, with managers present. Document it all. Try to hold a vote on it. When they fire you, find a lawyer, sue them. Reply 286
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