Google’s Sergey Brin Says Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI That Could Replace Them
Google’s Sergey Brin Says Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI That Could Replace Them
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.
Don't comply.
Happened to us, we checked out mentally and now we do not bother to get anything done.
They are trying to buy us back, threaten us, beg us.
Sentiment all around my team is:
"I don't want to work like this anymore."
Unionise your workplace and force your bosses to respect your time.
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.
How many people are you?
Ahh yes, another asshole who works maybe 10 hours per week wants the pleb to work around the clock to make him richer...
You wouldn't get it. These geniuses have highly efficient brains that are working every waking hour.
eat the rich
Another great example of why engineers should not be in charge of people, nor people's wellbeing.
Who else is an example of this? This seems like something that comes commonly from the MBAs that cosplay as techies. And while Brin is one of the few tech leaders who actually has any claim to technical brilliance, he has now been in management far longer than he ever was in a technical role.
That's quite sweeping.
People like Brin may be engineers - or have roots as engineers - but the heads of these tech companies are first and foremost entitled 1%-ers, who function as businessmen more than anything else.
The problem really is not that he's an engineer - the problem is that he's an asshole.
i mean kinda generalist there? are you using any piece of hardware that has an engineer as a ceo? (e.g nvidia, amd qualcomm all have ex engineers as CEOs)
Sergey should fuck right off!
Sergey should Google my balls
Fucker needs a visit from Luigi.
I say work 60 hours a week to build an AI to replace the CEO.
If elon is any example , being a ceo is a very low effort role, in that he's able to be the ceo of multiple companies, while playing video games all day and posting stupid tweets, and more recently, run a government department, all at the same time.
They wouldn't need all 60 hours
Another guy who hates his family so much that he'd rather spend 60 hours at work per week to stay away from them.
Classy.
Oh no, he doesn't work, he just dictates what other people should work
I guess I'm glad I'm not super rich. Seems like when you get super rich you become a complete idiot.
Says the guy a picture of himself could replace.
My odds of outliving all of these assholes keep looking better and better, as they pursue their every sociopathuc impulse.
I wish him a happy brain aneurism.
Rokos basilisk lite
What a cunt
The 40 hour workweek is WOKE!!! It came from that commie FDR's "NEW STEAL" and I hate the color green!!!!
Damn liberals forget that the company is FAMILY!! 60 hour weeks just means more time with the people who care the most bigly!!!
/s
I might be wrong, but he doesn't look like someone who's been leading by example and working 60 hours/week himself.
That's kinda what happened in IT industry...
Just build one to replace him and call it good
