Please don't cross into being a jerk in HN comments. It only makes things worse.

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> If you can't make yourself stand out with the same amount of hours as your coworkers, then maybe you should come to terms with the fact that you just aren't exceptional.

Or perhaps different people prioritize different things and who are you to judge or say otherwise?

This is a tragedy of the commons type situation. When your workaholism infringes on the lives of your coworkers, then your coworkers do have a right to say something.

It doesn't infringe on anything unless you believe everyone must make the same choices you've made. If your employer is making you work long hours because someone else is, that's on your employer, not the employee who is voluntarily working long hours. Nothing is stopping you as an employee from putting in more time if you want to or leaving if you don't, but depriving others of an opportunity to choose their own priorities is not a right anyone has.

Its unreasonable to say that individual exceptionalism is all that matters for success. There needs to be a way for hard work yo matter as well. Perhaps have both union and non-union shops and let employees vote with their feet.

No personal attacks, please, regardless of whether some other comment was being an asshole.

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