this concept of working 60 hrs a week for 6 months to right the ship is becoming a thing. i for one am all in, let's go !!!!!
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60 for 6 baby !!!!!
My manager had a meeting with us today and mentioned "putting in extra" during the week and on weekends. We all laughed because we are already each doing the work of two people... ridiculous.
I'm already doing this. 60 hours per 6 months
@d7 There is also a lot of work d-mber and not harder either people.
I’ll do that for a fraction of FB’s stock.
Hm, that only works for so long; it has been a good 5+ years of that narrative. Remember COVID days? Yea, everyone got sent home and we had to work harder to make all sorts of things work as India did not have connectivity working from home. The narrative just keeps getting worse and the work does not go away, just new priorities.
Oh, good luck with that since you got rid of all the people that had years of knowledge on the old systems you chose not to upgrade/enhance.
Contractors work for lousy Pay with zero benefits!!!
Has anyone been told this would actually happen? If so I’m out. I did this once before and will never do it again
That kind of “work harder, not smarter” thinking is emblematic of the management failure that got us here. It’s worth unpacking why it’s so misguided.
If workflows, priorities, and leadership are broken, adding more hours just means producing more bad decisions. A 60-hour push lets leadership posture as “committed,” instead of doing the actual work of examining why goals aren’t being met, who’s making bad calls, and whether the company’s strategy even makes sense.
When leadership’s “solution” is just to do more of the same, but longer, it means they don’t actually understand what’s wrong. It's a blatant admission we have no plan so let’s just suffer harder. You'll be left with a tired, demoralized workforce and an even weaker organization with more people jumping ship. Don't mistake effort for vision. Don't make people row the boat 50% more. Figure out why the motor stopped.
60hrs hahahahaha, like wut? yeah increate pay like %50 and then we'll talk. I mean we didn't make this mess, others profited hundreds of millions of dollars off this mess and we are supposed to clean it up? for what? a pizza party hahahaha if we are lucky?!? hahahaha...... hahahahahahaha....
some of us are dedicated, some are not, to each his own
@OP while some of us can understand being optimistic, you are out of your gourd if you truly think people will want to work for ANY company at a 60hr work week. Ask yourself this: what has Fiserv ACTUALLY done to warrant employees making this type of commitment/sacrifice? Will they promise more than a 3% merit increase? Will they do a 180 degree turn on work from home? Will they provide actual training for new employees and advancement opportunities for current ones? Will they magically change ingrained toxic behaviors of the top? Will they stop lying to you? The answer is no.
While we all can understand shifts like this take time, but this type of commitment should be coming from the C Suit execs, not your average run of the mill FiServant. Set the tone at the top and employees will react to that action, not these pipedreams that don't amount to anything. Your optimism isn't as infection as you make it out to be...you're in denial. Get back to work FiServant...
Fire all the contractors making $$$$ and barely working! Raise employee salaries. Cut worthless management levels. Stop promoting and protecting your buddies. Value and reward hard working employees!
Such a d-mb idea. Increase everyones pay by 50% and we will talk...
More work isn’t the answer. The problems are cultural, mainly process and priority.
No way I would do that. Also they will probably reward you with stock equity that matures in 3 years.
If paid by the hour, sure.