A Solution to 24/7 Work Days for Techs: Try to Be More Stoic

by Chris Abraham on 10/05/2005 · 1 comment

Yahoo! News via the Drudge Retort tells of the woes of techs who manage offshored employees and who need to work “24/4″. Oh come on, the financial markets have been doing this for decades.


Just ask your friendly investment banker or funds manager for pity: you won’t get any. Such is the price of a world economy.

Try to be more stoic, it makes the rest of us techies look week and pathetic.

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1 Mark Harrison 10/05/2005 at 12:54

Chris, you heartless monster. You simply have no idea how utterly exhausting it is exploiting cheap Third World labor. After a long, hard day of grinding the underclass under the heal of my jackboot with barely a moment’s break for a civilized cup of tea, I am just knackered. And all their whinging and moaning about being oppressed and their continual attempts to rise up and all that really become trying after a while.

I’ll tell you what, old boy. You spend a few months forcing the yoke of oppression upon the bent and straining necks of the working class and then you see if you can make such callous and insensitive remarks about the plight of the exhausted tech manager working 24/7 to keep his low-cost programmers at their desks creating value rather than going off to dance around bonfires and fornicate indescriminately or whatever savage things they would do were they not being driven to productivity by the thankless but noble toil of the very men you here deride.

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