[simpits-tech] OT - Microsoft

[Bubba]

Marv De Beque wrote:
>
> I view any company that works their employees on a habitual basis
> longer
> than 40 hours a week as a company that is always in a fire fighting
> mode,
> Such working environments tend to be pathological and are usually
> traced
> back directly to management and their processes.

I work for one of those companies (70 hrs last week). Simple solution in 
this case is to hire more people and add a second shift. Silent machines 
make no money.

Massive overtime may well make the company more money than it spends in 
wages, but employees wind up getting burned out and even worse they get 
exhausted and wind up working sloppy. Sloppy work leads to poor quality and 
people getting hurt/dead/worse and THAT costs money. I've already had to 
spend a full 2 days fixing someone's sloppy work this week and the "help" 
they've given me to get my mountain of machining done is taking 2 hours to 
do a 30 minute job.

I think that pretty much explains Windows95.
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Steve
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