There’s a 0% chance they were actually told to work that many hours. They certainly weren’t discouraged from it, but you’re right, at a certain point you need to simply walk away.
Probably the ol’ “Ya know sometimes it gets busy and we gotta put our nose to the grindstone…” crap. My last company would say that and then tried to say “well that’s per project so we don’t really look to have it carry over into others.” but of course projects are always heavier near the end where excess time wouldn’t matter so I ignored that immediately.
It’s wild the kinda crap that gets pulled on people. And it never even really works, either, which is the insane part to me. You could literally show someone that working 9-4 would guarantee a doubling in productivity(a bit extreme as an example I know) and they would fight tooth and nail against it.
There’s a 0% chance they were actually told to work that many hours. They certainly weren’t discouraged from it, but you’re right, at a certain point you need to simply walk away.
Probably the ol’ “Ya know sometimes it gets busy and we gotta put our nose to the grindstone…” crap. My last company would say that and then tried to say “well that’s per project so we don’t really look to have it carry over into others.” but of course projects are always heavier near the end where excess time wouldn’t matter so I ignored that immediately.
It’s wild the kinda crap that gets pulled on people. And it never even really works, either, which is the insane part to me. You could literally show someone that working 9-4 would guarantee a doubling in productivity(a bit extreme as an example I know) and they would fight tooth and nail against it.