Infosys co-founder calls for youth to work 70-hour weeks • The Register

3 years ago by schizoidman to c/workreform

Do it for India, says Narayana Murthy, seemingly unaware that China, Japan, and South Korea all have overworking problems
floofloof 53 points 3 years ago

Every day a new rich cunt demanding the enslavement of the poor. It's pretty tiresome.

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franklin 11 points 3 years ago

If I'm ever in charge this guy gets to work 70 hour weeks at Popeyes.

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Beelzebob 8 points 3 years ago

Even worse, a Waffle House in north Florida.

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starbreaker 1 point 3 years ago
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NumbersCanBeFun 47 points 3 years ago
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jlou 16 points 3 years ago

This was more explicit when it was called a master-servant relationship before employer-employee terminology became more common

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LordR 35 points 3 years ago

Compared to the productivity of 30 years ago, we probably work as much as the people back then would have to work in a 70 hour workweek.

Weirdly enough pay didn't raise close to productivity...

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unfreeradical 15 points 3 years ago

You are roughly four times as productive each hour as your grandparents.

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Caradoc879 2 points 3 years ago

Don't forget tgat was typically off judt grandpa's salary so really you're 8x as worse off.

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unfreeradical 3 points 3 years ago

The measure is given as value produced per man hour (I know).

Nevertheless, the wage gap, housing commodification, and the erasure of the family wage are also extremely relevant issues.

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TallonMetroid 26 points 3 years ago

Shit like this, as well as the fact that they take a ridiculously hefty cut out of what client companies pay to have positions filled (something like 70/30 or even 90/10), is why the company has an atrocious turnover rate here in the US for anyone who isn't held hostage by visa issues.

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stopthatgirl7 18 points 3 years ago

Yeah, fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck that dude.

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Heisenberg9999 12 points 3 years ago

Fuck him

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princessnorah 10 points 3 years ago

Aren’t billionaires and their opinions just great? ®

Simply amazing.

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cecilkorik 8 points 3 years ago

I used to work for a company that outsourced most of its developers to Infosys. I managed a few of them. They were lovely people, treated like shit by my company and by Infosys. I did my best with the little power available to me to give them reasonable projects and maintain reasonable expectations, they said I was the best manager they ever had. After I got laid off, they all quit too and most I think ended up working for Oracle somehow, I don't know how they're doing these days but Oracle sounds like it's probably a fate worse than death, unfortunately.

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Krzak 6 points 3 years ago

Only if they lead by example :^)

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unfreeradical 2 points 3 years ago

Please don't follow their example on anything.

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Treczoks 4 points 3 years ago

Well, that was what people in Germany and Japan did after the war. I fail to recognize, though, which devastating war had been lost by India lately so they would have to rebuild the country from scratch.

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Zeth0s 10 points 3 years ago

That's a boomer myth. They used to work long hours but much relaxed pace. Go and show them the modern schedule and stressors of many modern job, and they are absolutely higher than in the past. Every honest european boomer agrees with this. Millennials europeans are working much more intensively and more effective hours overall, even in Germany

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GrindingGears 2 points 3 years ago

Boomers used to go home too, and not have a device going off in their pockets every 55 seconds. They were able to unplug. The boss didn't dare go to the boomers house. Today, your boss doesn't even blink at calling you at 2am.

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Rolive 2 points 3 years ago

I have a separate phone for work and turn that thing off immediately when my 8 hours are up.

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unfreeradical 2 points 3 years ago

Your struggle is our struggle, Narayana. We all share the same interests.

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