Weekends were a mistake says Infosys co-founder Murthy
Again defends his belief that 70-hour weeks are essential and work/life balance is bunk
“I was not very happy with that. I think in this country, we have to work very hard because there is no substitute for hard work even if you're the most intelligent guy,”
Dude... If you work hard despite the fact that you claim to be intelligent... You are not intelligent.
Work smart, not hard. The smart thing is to take breaks so that you can focus on what you are doing. Not working till you drop.
Guarantee he's one of those rich pricks who count flying on a plane as "work". But he will work the dogshit out of his employees.
Just like my prick maga boss
Yes and on a global scale we massively overproduce a great many things in the first place. If we could calm the fuck down, we could all work a bit less.
Billionaires were a mistake. ¯(ツ)_/¯
I regret to inform you that a billionaire stole your arm to help pay for their next mansion / yacht / social media site.
That would've been so much funnier if you'd used the backslash.
AGAIN???
What this guy fundamentally fails to understand is that countries go from low gdp to high gdp not by producing more exports but rather by getting domestic consumption up. Time off is required for domestic consumption to happen. Henry Ford didn't give his workers time off for their benefit, he did it so they would buy cars.
he did it
so they would buy carsto kneecap any union effort.
Don't get me wrong, he did the right thing, but it was to stop a union being created rather than some 4D chess move. He did use your logic as the excuse, though.
Even a broken clock.
People have "forgotten" (ie never taught) that the first step in critically examining the actions of others is to understand their motivation and how it benefits them.
“I have not changed my view; I will take this with me to my grave,” he asserted .
Fine fine, can you speed this up a little? The grave part I mean.
I'm sure the constant 70 hour weeks are speeding things along
I don't think he's the one working 70 hours.
Every weekend should be a three-day weekend.
If everyone got double pay after 24 work hours per week, companies would have an incentive to keep each employee at under that limit. If they needed longer hours, Toney could hire a second employee to finish the day/week. If you job won’t pay for your extra hours but you want more money, then then working a second job actually fits into the number of hours in the week.
People had to fight and die for an 8 hour work day and 5 day work week. You'd better be willing to fight again, cuz they're coming for that.
Woohoo, that's my boss! Explains a lot about the company.
Fun fact: we had to "return to office" last year. I had to move away from all my friends to a red state. Come to find out, there's practically nobody in the office either. All of our work is done over zoom. It was just a "quiet layoff", but I couldn't find another job in time to quit.
See, that study that suggested 4 day work weeks increase productivity (and that a majority of companies kept after the trial) apparently lacked the ever so important control group of working 7 days a week and for extra hours per day. I'm sure that really increases productivity.
While we're at it, no remote days and everyone work in an open office with no cubicles or walls to block noise, and certainly no distracting windows.
no remote days and everyone work in an open office with no cubicles or walls to block noise, and certainly no distracting windows.
Wow. Add in the micromanager oddly obsessed with seeing my bum (in a chair) and that's why I changed jobs.
Just naming stuff research has demonstrated to be bad, haha. The literature is quite definitive on it, but you know how the MBAs in management care about research.
Murthy claimed he himself worked six and a half days a week until retirement, typically 14 hours and 10 minutes a day, clocking on at 6:20 AM before downing tools at 8:30 PM.
What a fucking slacker wasting ~66 hours per week that he could have been GRINDING. Pathetic.
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I’d like to see this fuckstick standing on his feet all day, and asking his supervisor for permission to pee. Then we’ll see how he feels about eliminating weekends.
My boss told me I couldn’t go to the bathroom whenever I needed to. I told him next time he tells me that I’m gonna shit on the floor. Nothing since.
Like all other people, I believe he should lead by example so others can easily follow his work.
CEOs when they have to wake up at 6am and commute for an hr both ways instead of waking up and watching their servant make them a causal late breakfast and calling it working.
CEOs watching numbers go brrrr === working~!
Ain't got no time to read the article right now but that thumbnail is accurate because being a workaholic will just kill you and send you to the big cloud up in the sky.
Infosys itself is a scam company. They literally train their "consultants" to absurdly mark up the cost of things that could be done by 1 mediocre software graduate in a month. I have seen a simple project being worked on by a team of 8, and they milked that cow for at least 2 years.
All they need is some idiot non-engineer in the company they are targeting. If your government is using Infosys, know that your tax is being sunk into a pointless hole.
Hey, Narayama Murthy, go fuck yourself.
