>>”our expectation is that you’re going to be in the office six days a week, 12 hours a day,” Granet said.
paying for 40 hours, expecting 72 hours. Hiring people for being weird rather than being competent. Why does this feel like the dot-com boom all over again?
Because it is like the dot-com boom, in that respect anyway.
I've always worked a lot more hours than my salary was for; it's who I am, and maybe that's weird, but when I'm doing something I enjoy I go whole hog and the effective hourly rate is secondary.
Between the mid-90's and about 2002 I worked those 72-80 hour weeks, getting paid for 40, at a small software company. When we had dot-com VC money it was great. But when we no longer did, and the paychecks started slipping, I was laid off with no notice, and there wasn't anything left for severance. Didn't even get the un-taken PTO/vacation time. Sucked.
Not again.
I worked for a design company right out of college that designed and built fast food restaurants. Main client was McDonalds. They also manufactured fiberglass elements and signage used in their projects. I interviewed for the decr side, but my portfolio was strong in producing drafted construction documents, so that is the position I was hired for. They paid flat salary and expected minimum of 50 hours and up to 60+ hours a week.
It was pretty grueling work. Nothing like drafting (old school hand drafting- nocomputers) for 10 hours while inhaling fumes from the fiberglass being molded in the room next door. I lasted 4 months. Quit when they started adding an extra weekend shift to our load at no additional,pay.