Anonymous wrote:Donald Trump is the most workaholic president this country has ever had. That’s why lazy federal employees fear him.

Presidential work is not truthing about scum and radical leftists.

The average hours worked is higher in the U.S. than in Japan.

DC will end up earning over $40k in overtime this year. Work smarter not harder.

Donald Trump is the most workaholic president this country has ever had. That’s why lazy federal employees fear him.

What’s the point of this kind of life though? Work till you drop and then regret the life you never got to live? Of what use is the success and wealth you never got to enjoy? I’d rather live in Europe where there’s more work life balance.

China, India and Japan are worse than US. They don;t have 2 day weekends. Only Sundays are off

Anonymous wrote:I’m a day away from Christmas Eve and we are on calls dawn to dusk. Is everybody’s work life like this?

Curious, what do you do OP? I think it depends on your job. I know that Financial sector still have generous telework policy. I recently called Schwab brokerage and the rep said that he was teleworking, like most of his team. He said that the work-life balance is great.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t like the expectation that salaried people be perpetually available. I think people don’t take enough time off. And of course, we hardly have any protections. So no - but it’s not great.

+ 1. Yes, the constant availability is a big mental drain and it worms itself into my family time. Little WLB.

Anonymous wrote:I’m a day away from Christmas Eve and we are on calls dawn to dusk. Is everybody’s work life like this?

Customer opened a support ticket yesterday. I did some preliminary debugging, but I suspect I will need to do some more today. This customer always opens a ticket before every major holiday. No tickets in the past three weeks.

I worked for a company that closed only on Christmas Day. People brought their children to work (because schools were closed all week), there were a few parties--but little got done. It was very performative, and cruel, I think.
In Japan, there are school.events on weekends. Attendance is expected, by students and parents.

Anonymous wrote:

a day away from Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve is not a holiday, nor is the day before Christmas Eve

true. OP has an attitude problem.

There is some truth (or it least there was) to the old adage that Americans live to work while the rest of the world works to live.

South Korea is very competitive I heard.

Anonymous wrote:Eastern Europeans work a lot too.

Nah

Clearly you've never worked in Asia