Google’s Sergey Brin Says Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI That Could Replace Them

https://slrpnk.net/post/18985714

Google’s Sergey Brin Says Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI That Could Replace Them - SLRPNK

Lemmy

My CEO is starting to get ideas. I work at a startup, and recently they have been floating 60-80 hour work weeks. So far it has been an idle threat and is really just their hail Mary play, but big players doing this shit is really worrying as far as normalizing it.

I’m more productive than ever, and the punishment seems to be piling on even more work in order to chase those short term profits.

I mean if they increase my pay by 50-100%, I’ll “work” 60-80 hours. By which I mean continue to work 20 hours and pretend to work the rest of the time I say I’m working, while collecting the extra money.

By the time they figure it out I’ll probably still come out ahead.