"It's really great to feel uncomfortable," she said.
No. No it's not. Perhaps yes if you're a masochist, but for the majority of us it's a no.
No job is worth this.
CEO texts job candidates at odd hours on the weekends
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#12"It's really great to feel uncomfortable," she said. No. No it's not. Perhaps yes if you're a masochist, but for the majority of us it's a no. No job is worth this.
Her job-hopping resume probably shows she enjoys being uncomfortable. Interviewing is like a fun game to play.
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#13Sounds like a CEO and company I'd rather avoid.
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#14Workaholism without aligned interests (ie, real, founder-class stock for employees, eg a co-op) isn't rational except for people whom sell their whole existence to a company, but that's also a recipe for burnout.
As the basecamp folks said, "Fire the workaholics."
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#15Good for her I rarely respond to any message on my phone outside "normal" hours .. with a couple exceptions (one being my wife) And messages from unknown numbers? They get filed to possibly never be responded to (possibly blocked)
I feel like this is actually a great idea -
As a night owl,I've noticed people who get up in the morning have life worked out way better than me.
If the ceo text people at 3am, excluded anyone awake to respond, and upmarked anyone who responded before 8, it would be a good cultural fit test for some places!
(I can think of one place that I wish had detected me as ' not likely to attend unofficially mandatory 8am scrums and saved some stress)
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#16This is weird. I just don't know, what does it achieve?
If your call someone who is not a founder, during off hours, it is better to be super urgent and means that something went terribly wrong in the management layer.
If you flip the scrk
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#17In theory, one might think this just makes you hardcore and productive. In practice, it always seems to be people who are (merely) equally or a little less productive than people who don't work all the time. But the optics is so convicing before you join and early on. As time goes on, you see the truth. I think everyone has this experience at least once.
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#18In theory, one might think this just makes you hardcore and productive. In practice, it always seems to be people who are (merely) equally or a little less productive than people who don't work all the time. But the optics is so convicing before you join and early on. As time goes on, you see the truth. I think everyone has this experience at least once.
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#19Sounds like a terrible way of doing work. If you are expected to react to everything sent your way you never get to do any deep and meaningful work. Furthermore, running around and firefighting all the time does not give you the time and space require to learn, reflect, and improve. More people need to think about the long term impact of their work habits.
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#20Look at the reviews for the iOS app "Crashes all the time", "Super glitchy", "Poor Content". It looks like it's really working out well for her.