Just put in my two week's notice yesterday. I've been putting in a stupid amount of hours (80+) while my colleagues in other departments barely hit the 40 hour mark. This is a good omen.
Does it really matter? Since he put in his notice, I don't think he'd have worked 80 hour weeks if he didn't feel he had to. Either way, he feels pressured to do it and he is now out from under that pressure.
A little of both, actually. There was never a requirement to work more than 40 hours. In fact, last Friday I talked about how I'd probably work through the weekend to make the deadlines they set for the beginning of this week. They took pity on me and said I shouldn't even be checking my email over the weekend. I reluctantly agreed, and didn't work on the projects. But, guess who everyone was angry with come early this week for not having the deliverables to the clients?
How do you get to the stage where you're putting that many hours in? Does it start off just staying late one night and then turns into more nights and then every day? Or is it like that from day one trying to prove yourself?
It started off innocently enough. "I'll work just a few more hours on this project, because once these changes are in place, I'm going to save so much time when the client changes their mind again." That quickly turned into the normal amount of work on a daily basis, and then weekends started getting gobbled up. I also knew that I had a baby on the way, and I thought I'd put in yet more hours then, so now wouldn't be so bad. Now has come, and it is far worse than I could have imagines.
