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Originally Posted by OnTheRail15
Keep in mind that the average person in a real job works far more than 40 hours/week.
I contest this.
I'll assume we're talking about exempt employees, because obviously nonexempt employees would never average more than 40 hours as an aggregate.
Are average exempt employees in the office or worksite more than 40 hours a week? Yes. Do they justify to their bosses getting paid for 40 hours a week? Sure.
Do they WORK 40 hours a week? No.
They take lunch and go poop and smoke and flirt with the hot receptionist and have their buddies punch in for them and doze off in meetings and write TPS reports and they linger at birthday parties and have pretend lightsaber fights while their code is compiling.
And whatever rules are in place, people game them. Your boss is a psychopath who walks around at 7 in the morning to see who's in already, and at 11 at night to see who's still in (true story)? Bring in an extra jacket to leave on your chair and leave the lights on. Run your errands in the middle of the day when your boss has meetings scheduled. Set your radio alarm to start playing music in the morning.
I'd say that the average (exempt) employee puts in 40-50 hours and gets out 25-35 in actual work.
I'm not complaining. But salaried workers are getting paid to poop and smoke and flirt, poker pros get their salaries docked every time they miss a hand.
I'm just saying if you came into the office at 8 and left at 6 with no lunch every day M-F, you'd be perceived as the hardest worker in 99% of offices. But if you got 40 hours of actual work done, you'd be a superstar at 90% of offices.
And this is already long but whatever. It's not that people are lazy. It's really difficult to play an A game for that long (at the table or away from it). Doing a task well has a finite physical/mental capacity. And when that capacity is exceeded, bad things happen - substandard welds lead to steuctural failure, someone needs to rewrite inefficient code, etc. And again poker is special in that a good player's C game can probably be fine 90% of the time and a B game 99% so if your baby kept you up all night and you phone it in, it's not that bad (or at the least the only person who is affwcted is you).