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nandemo on Feb 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I Don't Do Unpaid Overtime and Neither Should ...

> I regularly work longs hours (my standard work day is something like 10 - 19:30)

I live in Japan and what is this?

sskcaz on Feb 28, 2012 [–]

10AM - 7:30PM

nandemo on Feb 29, 2012 | [–]

I mean that in Japan, working 8.5 hours (if you subtract 1 hour for lunch) isn't considered working "long hours" at all.

Though I suppose it's not considered long hours in US too, perhaps the commenter above doesn't have a lot of experience or has been lucky till now.

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