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The Obligatory WePay "Company Culture" Blog Post

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Post by adamhowell »

brown9-2 wrote: post #4
adamhowell wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't worry, the next bullet point clearly states they "separated work from personal life."

...but only on the weekends.

Well, duh, it's not like you can afford to spend time with family and friends during the week.

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Post by kolektiv »

adamhowell wrote: post #3
enjo wrote: post #2

8:30 AM - 9 PM ? Jesus.

Don't worry, the next bullet point clearly states they "separated work from personal life."

Yes, that's quite easy if the definition of personal life is "Sweet Jesus, sleep!"

More seriously, that's the kind of thing which does creep in to companies. They have a culture already. It's a long hours culture. You may or may not think that's a bad thing, but it's there. It's quite hard to lose as well. People come in, they can't work less than the people already there, so they jump in to it. Soon people that only work 11 hour days are regarded as slackers. Nip it in the bud. It can't work forever, and it'll get harder to change.

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Post by pigbucket »

I don't quite know why, but I'm imagining that guy walking in one day and saying, "My name is Tran. Khang Tran. I get stuff done." He sounds like the kind of person I would like to have always behind me, kicking my butt. Also, this was a really well-written blogpost, like a little novel.

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Post by aberman »

enjo wrote: post #2

8:30 AM - 9 PM ? Jesus.

Fair enough, but just to be clear, these were the first five employees (including my cofounder and me).

Now, some of us still work those hours, and some don't. We don't "monitor" hours or tell people they can't take time off or leave early - and a lot of people take full liberty to do so (and they should).

Some of our employees have kids and leave earlier, put the kids to bed, and hop on IRC to help out if/when they can.

I am TOTALLY aware that as we hire more, the avg hours worked by the avg employee will decrease over time. I think that's normal. I imagine that the early employees will always tend to work a little longer - or at least they should.

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Post by billclerico »

kolektiv wrote: post #6
adamhowell wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't worry, the next bullet point clearly states they "separated work from personal life."

Yes, that's quite easy if the definition of personal life is "Sweet Jesus, sleep!" More seriously, that's the kind of thing which does creep in to companies. They have a culture already. It's a long hours culture. You may or may not think that's a bad thing, but it's there. It's quite hard to lose as well. People come in, they can't work less than the people already there, so they jump in to it. Soon people that only…

we don't apologize for working hard. we're a startup trying to make it in a competitive business.

what rich meant was that unlike other companies, where social & work bleed together (people hang at the office 7 days a week, 15 hours a day but aren't always working) - we come in, we jam all day, we go home. and we take weekends off.

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