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2017-02-23
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7h3kk1d15:02:38

How common are jobs that don’t have “crunch time”?

rootkat15:02:29

My experience is that all jobs have crunch time, the real differentiation is how often it happens.

sveri15:02:12

I know that I am very lucky at my job. I had 2 crunch times in 5 years. Where crunch time = working 6 hours longer on friday once and get one day free a few weeks later.

sveri15:02:24

We dont work overtime here.

7h3kk1d15:02:24

I feel like most of the jobs I’ve had have been so poor at managing times that 70% of the time there’s not much work to be done then 30% it’s a mad scramble to finish.

jstew16:02:34

7h3kk1d : That's true for anywhere you work, really. Even outside of software. It comes from procrastination, whether that be your team, or your clients.

7h3kk1d16:02:22

@jstew thanks, I was just hoping I got unlucky and would eventually find a place that operated differently.

sveri16:02:59

In all seriousness, it is up to us to stand up and just work as we signed in our contract.

7h3kk1d17:02:46

There’s nothing about overtime in most places with salary as far as I can tell. I’m mostly just being transparent and making it clear I’m not interested in doing insane hours.