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Fishes, Anyone aware of the relocation assistance provided by Wells Fargo . Is that provided as as whole or only after submitting the required bills and docs.
Asking because Deloitte credited 40k relocation assistance without any bills even though it was mentioned in the offer that bills were necessary.
Can anyone please help? Wells Fargo
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Let them know you have personal matters that prevent you from engaging in this. You don't really need to elaborate. Tell them your work is done and you need to leave at your scheduled time for personal reasons.
Yeah my boss tried the same thing twice this year: "myths and weekends so we can get this over the line" and everyone else did. I, specifically, did not.
I didn't explain myself. Just didn't stay late than I wanted to and didn't respond on weekends.
My boss only had one job... to take care of himself and to get the project over the line.
So my only job is to take care of myself.
YOUR ONLY JOB IS TO TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF.
Yeah... i need therapy... I'm aware 🤣😅
Over the years I've come to realise that Management does not undertand the concept that individual workers are a limited resource.
Work them at 100% for any period of time and their maximum output falls away. VERY quickly if the period is extended.
100% becomes 90% of the original output, then rapidly 80%, 70% and so on and suddenly they aren't very productive at all - a problem for them AND the company.
Humans CAN work at 100% plus, but only in specific circumstances and for short sprints (to use the modern vernacular). After that though they are useless for a couple of weeks or so - I have personal experience of this.
80% seems to be the ideal level. Enough to maintain a productive level of work, without burnout.
So, for an 8 hour day, 6 hours and 30 mins of actual work should be the norm.
Of course, this isn't a legal definition (perhaps it should be) and convincing a boss that you CAN'T work at 100% (or more) for 100% of the time is no easy task, but at least a ‘marker’ should be put in place that such levels cannot be maintained or problems will ensue.
Again, using my own experiences, during one role I went to my Doctor who medically assessed me as 'exhausted', issued a two week sick note sent immediately to my workplace and ordered me home for 'a lot of rest'.
This did cause an absolute stink when I eventually arrived back with strong hints that I was simply malingering – and that was from HR.
My actual Boss was less forgiving.
Mind you, by this point I didn’t really care as I’d taken to heart the advice given to me by the doctor as he issued my note:
“Find another job or this one will kill you!”
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“Find another job or this one will kill you” — I hope this isn’t regarding software engineering as a whole! I think there are far more jobs that are life threatening
The “60-hour workweeks” (aka throw more hours into the problem) is one solution to his problem. Maybe the team can suggest alternate ways that can accommodate multiple needs - maybe through better sprint planning, too much technical debt, not enough cicd and qa automation, etc.
I would just tell them that you can't do it. At the end of the day there is no obligation for you to work 60 hours a week. I would go to HR if I had to.