How Some Consultants Fake an 80-Hour Workweek (2015)

Re:How Some Consultants Fake an 80-Hour Workweek (2015) by Aeolun on Monday September 24, 2018 @08:44PM (#18062701)

To a point I guess, but I imagine the drop off in performance from 2 hours to 8 hours of standing watch is much larger than the one from 8 to 20 hours.

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Re:How Some Consultants Fake an 80-Hour Workweek (2015) by chris_mc on Monday September 24, 2018 @09:36PM (#18062902)

From 8 to 20 hours watchstanding, you're basically not watchstanding. It went like this:

    Hour 1: Fine

    Hour 2: Walk around a bit, then fine

    Hour 3-5: Jesus, I never should have joined the Navy

    Hour 6: I want to pull out my 9mm and use it on myself

    Hours past 6: I am functionally useless

Some jobs that aren't knowledge-jobs are hard on your mind, too. The reason security/watchstanding is so hard is that you have to be alert at all times while doing, effectively, jack squat. It isn't a much different level of alertness than I am in while programming, now that I think about it carefully.

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